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Landscape designer Thomas Woltz takes our career questionnaire.

THOMAS WOLTZPRINCIPAL, NELSON BYRD WOLTZ

What’s your best habit, and your worst? Saying yes to everything I can fit into my calendar, and saying yes to everything I can fit into my calendar. What do you do when you’re creatively stuck? Draw until new solutions to problems emerge. Translucent paper is the tool of my creativity. It allows for building overlays where past ideas are still faintly visible, and new ideas can slowly evolve, layer after layer. Is there a businessperson you admire? Jonathan Rose, an urban planner, for bringing design excellence, creativity, and social responsibility to housing and real estate development. Also, Alison Fox of American Prairie, for leading a project to create the largest nature reserve in the contiguous United States. How do you unplug? Play the piano (early 19th-century German composers are best for letting…

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Fast Company (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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