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Grammar is important.
Humor is necessary.
Ideas are critical.
Action is inevitable…

… ARE a whole different arguement. …not that I don’t live in a glass house. I just could not resist.

What about Atlanta? I have been relentlesly looking since September ’08. The most frustrating thing about the search is that few of the employers respond to your inquiries. I understand there are many people applying, but I would much rather they say the job is filled than just use the “Don’t call us, we’ll call you ” approach. I’ll have to admit,…[Read more]

Nice! Good to know we have someone working on the “inside”… : )

Mark, in all I don’t see that there will be a tremindous change or shift in the types of services we provide or to whom they are offered to, here in the valley. In my opinion, I think the change will be in which firms perform certain types of work. What I mean by that is we will see an increase in the amount of small design firms due to the i…[Read more]

Alec I’d be interested. Do you have any examples of articles so that I can get an idea of what you are looking for? If so, email me at dprouty@hotmail.com

NR and Alec-

I see your point and think it’s valid, but I also think humor can be an effective way to detach from a topic we might find ourselves so close to. I think an intellectually stimulating, yet accessible, and most importantly, objective publication written from the point of view of active practitioners and those on the cutting edge of…[Read more]

I’m actually not looking for advice on how to run my magazine.
Just looking for contributors.
I will assume you are not interested.

The first thing will be to identify exactly what the viable opportunities are when they arise. Will it be redevelopment or new development? Will it be structured work or restorative, public or private, large scale/small scale, …. Then to identify what most closely suits my own capabilities and what I have to do to be competitive in getting that…[Read more]

Alec,

It sounds like a good project. I’ll be interested to see how it materializes. I like the tongue-in-cheek humor..looking forward to more of this. We could all use a little ‘loosening up’ I think.

I think there’s going to be a lot to learn.

I think LA’s will need to work harder to quantify their services while holding on to the less tangible nature of the ‘craft.’ Someone more experienced than I told me yesterday that at the current state of the practice it take on average 5-10 years for the typical landscape designer/architect to learn…[Read more]

There will not be a lot of “new work” or development, but those existing projects that have been neglected as far as maintenance and attention may need some renovations and modernization in order to serve the higher level of use due to the rise of the economy and also the expectations as far as energy efficiency and waste water issues.

OK. I know that “good” is not the proper adverb for this action.
Claudia and Eric, I am sure you both write well 😉
I guess I was subtly trying to give away the fact that the magazine will not take itself too seriously (as many design publications tend to do).
As I describe on the site, “We promise not too take ourselves too seriously. The work…[Read more]

I thought it, thanks for being the one to say it, Eric 🙂

I like this, it’s simple and elegant. There are so many things that fall under this guise, but this really is the core thing. I also love Kathryn Gustafson’s quote, that’s great.

I guess we’ll just set aside for the moment the fact that there are some LA’s that practice “interior landscaping”. 🙂

I like that too!

*Ahem* I can write *well*…… 🙂

Glad to be getting a lot of responses.
I will post my final 2 choices this Wednesday, Jan. 13.

I’m a landscape architect. There are a lot of architects in my office, who generally think landscape architect mostly work on planting and the left-over space of buildings.

Thats pretty much what I was saying.

I dont think it’s a ‘huge’ detriment because plenty of ‘us’ prefer to practice this way, but I think it does tend to ‘disparage’ the wealth of capability of the profession..which ultimately affects the public more than fashion design (‘project runway’ et al).