- "Listen to the voice of the land and learn from its memory" - this is the commencing policy in Ryoko Ueyama"s mind when she launches each landscape project. Ryoko Ueyama is the pioneer landscape architect/designer in Japan even when no one knew the term "Landscape Design" in the industry. Her unique, artistic, and organic approaches to the design are highly respected in Japan, as well as in other countries. The book highlights seven of her most representative landscape design projects dated since early 1980"s to present.