Deepest gratitude for your generosity, taking the time to share your award-winning projects with me in the field throughout China, our various collaborations, introducing me to the vast network of Chinese educators and scholars, ensuring safe and rich learning experiences for my American students during their Turenscape internships, and especially our long-standing friendship (since 2002). I will miss our provocative conversations on the “art of survival” and friendly debates on the agency of soft technology in landscape architecture, the mystical and scientific properties of water, reclaiming, conserving and harvesting natural resources “here” and “there” and around planet Earth.

Fond farewell and warmly,

Mary G. Padua, PhD, RLA

Professor

Clemson University School of Architecture, South Carolina USA

Founder, MGP Studio: art design research

译文:

谨向您致以最深的谢意，感谢您慷慨分享在中国各地斩获殊荣的项目成果，感谢我们多年来的各项合作，感谢您将我介绍给众多中国教育工作者和学者，尤其感谢您为我的美国学生在土人设计实习期间提供的安全而丰富的学习经验，更难忘我们自2002年建立的深厚友谊——我会格外怀念那些关于"生存艺术"的启发性对话，怀念关于关于景观建筑中软技术的能动性、怀念对水之神秘与科学属性的探讨，以及关于"此处"与"彼处"乃至整个地球自然资源回收、保护与利用的思想碰撞。

依依惜别，衷心祝愿。

Mary G. Padua,注册景观设计师

克莱姆森大学建筑学院教授

美国南卡罗来纳州

MGP工作室（艺术设计研究机构）创始人