garden can merge with the nearby natural environment. Pamela Burton regrades a garden or landscape as a big idea- “one that is simple. Harmonious, and perceptible.” During her undergraduate years at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), when she studies, she found that what she wants most was to create a landscape, and by changing the landscape to achieve the best use of the site, and it also related to the environment. Then, she noticed that “elements such as openings, lighting, temperature (shade and water), sounds, and furnishing also can be considered as a good way to show the relationship with its surroundings.” Later, at the time during her study in Japan, by visiting the gardens and temples, she observed that the power of aesthetic simplicity and experienced the way in which the fusion of nature and architecture connected her to something infinite and deep. After that, she realized how she wants to approach these qualities to her own work. So, merge into the boundary of the space is important to Pamela, and later when she designs her work, she always strove to study the site and its environment. And over the years, she has found the most important thing to maintain a balance between four areas of the creative life: looking, thinking, drawing, and making. “thinking is about analyzing and making conceptual connections between its environment; drawing is about recording insights, taking imaginative leaps, and bringing ideas and images of oneself and putting them onto paper.” In her work, it is easy to find a relationship with the natural environment. For example, Red Tail Ranch is a project located in a paradigmatic California landscape of golden rolling hills and oak trees. To merge it into the natural environment, Pamela and her team design the house go to sit on the land, like a saddle, with the ridge running through it like the backbone of a horse. So, the project became an exercise in restraint, letting the house recline comfortably into the landscape and become part of the mountains. In the book “Pamala Burton Landscapes “there shows many of her projects, and most of them show the relationship with the environment. Recent Awards 2020 Modelo -2020 Citation Award, Westside Urban Forum Design Awards (w/ Tighe Architecture) Pathway to Home Ownership -2020 Citation Award, Westside Urban Forum Design Awards (w/ EYRC Architects) UCSD Jacobs Medical Center -2020 Award of Merit,