M. Arch., School of Architecture and Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., School of Environmental Design, University of California, Los Angeles

Pamela Burton teaches landscape architecture. She is a practicing landscape architect who has taught studio classes and lectured on the meaning of landscape and its relationship to art and architecture at many Universities including the UCLA School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her explorations in landscape have led to design symposia and international speaking engagements on such topics as "Garden as Sanctuary," "Memory and Landscape," "Balance and Uncertainty" and "Poetics of the Garden." Recently completed projects include the master plan for California State University, Northridge, UCLA Law Library Addition, Farmers Market and the historic Gilmore Adobe in Los Angeles as well as Imax Headquarters in Santa Monica. Her work has been featured in books such as Garden Design and The New American Garden as well as in Landscape Architecture, Transforming the American Garden, Architecture + Design, and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She has co-written a number of articles, including "Healing and Cultivation" which appeared in Modulus, 1991 and "Scripted Places" in Landscape Review, 1996. Pamela recently completed work on a book titled Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California, published in Spring 2003.