hELLO! mY NAME IS nICOLAS nINO wALDER, aS i'm SURE YOU COULD TELL from the home page. i AM A SECOND YEAR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENT AT VIRGINIA TECH. i AM PARTICULARLY PASSIONATE ABOUT GARDEN DESIGN, FROM BACKYARD TO MULTI-ACRE SPACES. NATIVE SPECIES, DIVERSE LANDSCAPES, CONCEPT AND CONTEXT, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, enjoyability TAKE THE LEAD ON MY DESIGNS. TO ME, THE MOST SPECIAL THING ABOUT A LANDSCAPE IS BEING ABLE TO EXPERIENCE MOMENTS WITHIN IT. crossing THRESHOLDS, EXPLORING HIDDEN SPACES, RETRACING STEPS, REVISITING MOMENTS, AND ABOVE ALL CREATING deliberately FRAMED VIEWS AND MOMENTS THROUGHOUT A LANDSCAPE - THIS IS WHAT MY DESIGNS AIM TO CAPTURE through THE VIEWPORT THAT IS THE HUMAN EYE.

i AM ORIGINALLY FROM CARACAS, VENEZUELA, BUT HAVE LIVED IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA NEARLY MY ENTIRE LIFE. THESE TWO PLACES GREATLY IMPACT THE WAY I VIEW LANDSCAPES. ON ONE HAND, THE PERENNIAL AND ANNUAL MUST-HAVES IN THE MID-ATLANTIC HAVE INCOMPARABLE, QUAINT BEAUTY. ON THE OTHER, THE LUSH, TROPICAL EVERGREENS I WITNESSED FROM THE MOMENT I WAS BORN ARE singularities, not being able to SURVIVE, AT LEAST FOR LONG, ELSEWHERE - ELUSIVE, FLEETING BEAUTY, WHEN TAKEN OUT OF THEIR HOMES.

BESIDES LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, I ALSO HAVE A PASSION FOR GRAPHIC DESIGN. tHIS AND a creative desire LED ME TO CO-FOUNDING PERENNIAL STUDIOS LLC WITH MY BROTHER, LUIS. AS a CREATIVE DIRECTOR and business director duo, WE OWN THE CLOTHING BRAND PERENNIAL FOUR, A BRAND THAT MIXES BOTANY AND GRAPHICS TO, WHAT WE WOULD CONSIDER, PERFECTION.