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Maintenance plan, maintenance plan, maintenance plan!

I have worked on two projects that illustrate the difference – one was a creek restoration with a 5-year maintenance plan with oversight by the landscape architect. It was a very successful project with almost no invasive exotics.

The other project was a parkinglot stormwater wetland system.…[Read more]

Things have definitely moved in this direction. I’m not in an urban environment, but I see several things that have changed over the years. One example is that all schools and playgrounds in my area have uplimbed existing trees and not planted shrubs in certain places in order to keep visibilty of the children and remove places for stalkers to…[Read more]

I am not familiar with CPTED at all. But you bring up a few interesting subjects. Do we need to design better communities or do we need to establish better relationships with developers that commision subdivision design (pursuasive)? Or encourage our communities to develop more enforcable standards in design? I don’t know the answer at…[Read more]

Is there a higher rate of violent crime in newer subdivision communities?

Yeah, long write up on the spaces and landscape architecture of the games in this months issue of Landscape Architecture magazine

We could also talk about how lame HGTV is or how insufficient Webster’s definition of Landscape Architecture is in this thread.

That’s thin ice your treading on there AG with that grammar stuff..lol. I think I’ll give LP a pass on this one because it looks like they slipped with the first.

See the title of this discussion ? If you are hiring… or know of someone or firm that is…. this is the forum by which to disclose that !!

I would agree with Artie’s more aggressive and hard-charging approach, with just one caveat. Most firms and the people doing the hiring within those firms, really detest spontaneous appearances and unexpected drop-ins.

If by some fortunate chance, you are able to ferret out the “classic” informational interview and it is a sincere not a…[Read more]

True, BUT..

The job market is a global entity for most aspiring landscape architects and designers. It is impossible to visit all or even a great majority of the offices some of us desire to work in. A lot of schools are in places that may not offer a lot in terms of employment for designers and the job market is saturated with good…[Read more]

Dumb luck or right place at the right time? You have a better chance to be in the right place at the right time if you spend more time in more places. Artie’s advice will certainly do that whether or not you agree with his reasoning.

I appreciate that, but I think this was more true maybe 6 months ago than today. It’s a different ball game now and employers aren’t hiring because there is no work because banks aren’t lending to developers and entrepreneurs, not because they don’t want to hire.

Adding to that, there’s undeniably a surplus in good designers, architects, and…[Read more]

You have to be agressive in obtaining employment. Dont sit around just posting your resume on the net and think that you will be noticed. You must go out and intro yourself to owners of firms. Find out who they are, and make a surprise visit to their company. Let them know you are hungry for work. You will be surprised what comes out of this. Make…[Read more]

Yes, I saw your posting on Land8.net! You get three, week-long job listings with a basic account. You might want to re-run the ad or upgrade to a standard plan to keep the ad up longer…

Thanks again!

Yes…we are looking for interns:

Submit CV and 3-5 pp portfolio to: dfletcher@fletcherstudio.com

fletcherstudio.com

We seem to think we are nicely inter-connected and instantly informed about this profession by websites such as this one, and I have no doubt that many of us, myself included, find this forum immensely helpful.

In this particular discussion, similar to what one finds on Archinet (without all the bitching and moaning) discussion threads on this…[Read more]

I will try to limit myself to just saying this:This is one part of a system that makes many European cities much safer than American cities for bicyclists and pedestrians. They have pedestrian- and bicycle-only areas, too, in European cities like Drachten. I’m all for using this sort of thing here in the US. But the whole system needs to be…[Read more]

Has anybody played around using Illustrator brushes with a Wacom tablet?

Thanks for your thoughts, Trace One, I’ll have more to say a bit later but I wanted to point out the gentleman being interviewed indicated a vehicular traffic volume of around 22,000 per day, plus bikes and pedestrians. To me that does not seem like low volume but I’m no expert!

This traffic pattern seems very low volume..I like the water – can we use jets like that to control traffic? Pretty thought..but, David, I am just tired of the car everywhere..I have seen this video, and have gotten in this argument before..I like this because it requires humans to think..But it is just too zero-sum for us bicyclists and…[Read more]