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We all get caught up in words. I’m not sure if that is good or bad.

I’m a guy who started with a shovel in my hand, spent time behind a lot of 48″ walk behinds, worked as a designer in “low end” projects (pretty sure I’m the only one documented to have done so on the planet), got my BLA at 35, I’ve done design/build//working supervisor as a…[Read more]

No – Just volunteering my skills and gaining experience as much as I can since I graduated (MLA) back in May of 2009. By June of 2010, I plan to wait tables and/or serve coffee. Savings are gone!…starting from zero at my late 30s.

Yes…and grateful. I do see a significant amount of work circulating in the Residential area, more friends that are GC are seeing it too.

The natural order of things in most cases should be Landscape Architect >> Civil Engineer, not the other way around. It doesnt work well that way I’m convinced. It’s not an ego thing and I’m not that naive, it just is what it is.

My boss, who was once a civil engineering student and has worked very closely with civils on many projects over the…[Read more]

Andrew G, You seem to have some good points made but this comment of Landscape Design being a “task or occupation”, while Landscape Architecture is a “profession” is a bit offending. I know thousands would tell you that they practice landscape design and do so for a livelihood and and many actually have a more professional practice than do some…[Read more]

Depending on the state, and at my last count 2, had the title of Professsional or Registered Planner. Those with planning registration or licenses would prevent your employer from advertising “planner” if no principle in charge is present. But in every other state in the union, they can, as planning is not a registered profession in 48 states.

Thats an interesting point. I was laid off from two engineering firms the past two years, due to lack of work. Who did they fire first? Engineers that had nothing to do….no…..Cad techs that worked for the engineers, but also had nothing to do….no. If you guessed Landscape Architects, you are correct.
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It seems that we are expendable.…[Read more]

I’m studying for A, B and D…ANY help, tips, materials would be awesome!!!! and greatly appreciated!! There are SOOOO much conflicitng advice on what to study, which programs, books etc…to put your effort into….

I started a freelance consulting company around four years ago on the side, it is now part time…barely a living at this time….high end residential is the only if any, LA work around. The engineering firms have been canning LAs on and off since the beggining of time. We LAs should all build consulting companies made up of us networking…[Read more]

These are some great examples for me to use – I am currently designing a “green” parking area for a city that will include a small bioswale and possibly permeable paving.

Engineers here are very suspicious of the permeable paving because we have such fine, silty sands and they are afraid of the pavers becoming clogged over time – anyone have…[Read more]

Thanks for mentioning Johnston Medical Center. Here’s a link to some images of that project.

Johnston Medical Center

That was a unique project in that we had a client allow us to have the GC price green infrastructure vs conventional in the schematic stages. Green ended up being slightly cheaper, but also had benefits that don’t typically equate…[Read more]

Very good. I think it was the first time in my life when my coffee tab was bigger than my beer tab – but worth every penny.

We were staying on Savoyen strasse and had a good view of the city. We poked around some of the trails up there. We strolled around Schonbrunn and tried to imagine how it works leafed out. Still impressive. We took in a show…[Read more]

Yes…working!

Here’s the other interesting thing about websites done in flash media… not so safe as you may think….

Open a site in Flash…find a picture on that site you want… right click and you can’t grab it…but hit that little print screen button on your keyboard and you take the screen capture of what you are looking at… then open your paint…[Read more]

I don’t know that it was as much a web development company as it was Google itself that has made my stuff easy to find… but that is the trade off! As my good friend and internet mentor once told me years ago before I started to put stuff “online”…in order for people to know what you can do for them….they have to see your work! So making your…[Read more]

As Bill Clinton said many times…..”I feel your pain”. I too have been “borrowed” from. It is a very common practice in Asia. Companies actually change their names to be very similar to others who are successful, just to gain an edge and play off others reputation. It is pathetic.