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There are LDs who know about sight lines in parking lots and those who don’t – the same can be said for LAs, although after years of school, internship, and practice there is a much greater chance that they do consider that..

That is one example, but you can substitute countless other things besides plant pallet that the comparison works on. You…[Read more]

it’s hard to become unexpendable in a company were emplyers or coleagues have the impresion that they can do the same thing.
I’m from Romania, were landscape architecture is at the begining, and were if I want to become unexpendable I have to know a very wide range of fields and a biigg package of information. So with my studies and experience in…[Read more]

LA’s are also a bit more reponsive when it comes to code issues related to ADA and IBC egress. Even local codes and proper placement of materials in a commecial project (think blind spots because of too tall of vegetation in parking lot islands). Also, with the commecial aspects, there is the issue of any site engineering that may need to be done,…[Read more]

I think one of the major points I have as an LA, is that we so often get confused by not only the public, but our allied professions as to our capabilities. LA’s do sooooo much more than LD. There is always the ‘cocktail party’ situation when someones asks what you do, and they ask you to help with their yard. As you could tell by some of the…[Read more]

If you change the law, you’re on a slippery slope back to the land of very bad planting plans. I wish we had such a law in our state, so LA’s would be getting some jobs right now.

If the general public were educated more about what we do and how much we can improve a design, we would be more in demand.

I’ve said it before…ASLA needs to market us. And we need to start critiquing all of this shoddy work – even that which isn’t designed by us. (Maybe especially that work!)

I don’t think you are being naive with a statement…[Read more]

Very well put!

Hey,
I too am studying for the A,B and D sections in Sacramento. There is a whole lot of info that I have found and a lot to take in as well. I found a really great Google group http://groups.google.com/group/lare-exam/files which has a lot of amazing information.
Good Luck in your studies.

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As a landscape architect who teaches both landscape design and landscape architecture, I can say its not an easy task to differentiate between the two. Scale is usually the biggest difference…generally LA’s work on larger scale sites at a coarser level of detail whereas LD’s generally work on smaller sites at a much more resolved level of…[Read more]

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.