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Landscape Architecture for me started before I went to formally start my MLA at UCT. The firm I worked for had a principle landscape architect who had been around for +/- 40 years. The firm was well established, and was well known and still is in that part of the world amoungst all kinds of professionals, architects, engineers, planners,…[Read more]

I believe it’s the general lack of Landscape Starchitects and the general offense to the classic “design my backyard” remark for many. Otherwise, this field is actually becoming much more respected. See: http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090806landscapearc-1.asp

For me, as a landscape architect I think our magazine is…[Read more]

Andrew,
I’m not sure I agree with you about the profession not being respected. Certainly there are people that don’t respect Landscape Architects/Architecture because they don’t know what we do or what it is (back to the “can you do my backyard” theme in another discussion). Then there are people (clients) that want a landscape architect involved…[Read more]

Lindsey,
What size structure are you looking to build? I’ve been toying w/ the idea of creating a roofed structure over an outdoor kitchen/seating area that would incorporate a green roof. The size at 20′ x 20′ would be managable for residential scale without being cost prohibitive. Additional runoff would be collected for irrigation use. Pehaps…[Read more]

Hi Craig,
In my opinion, Archicad is a much more advanced program than Autocad. It is a 3d modeling and rendering program. I can’t understand why Architects think that Autocad a engineer based product, could be better than a program made for Architects. Vectorworks Landmark which is the landscape version of Archicad has it all. It is a 3d modeling…[Read more]

Thats great! Maybe this thread should be retitled : Is HGTV killing the profession?
On another note…I wonder how many constitutional lawyers get asked about fixing traffic tickets?

Hi Brian,

In case you haven’t found something yet I know someone who uses Intuitive Time Tracking http://www.officetime.net/ for keeping track of activities and clients. I am not sure if ITT is what you are looking for, otherwise I vote for Excel too.

Bria Sativa Aguayo
http://www.briadesigns.net

I would second that it depends on what you want to do and who you want to work for. The main ones mentioned, namely drafting and graphic programs, are standard for anybody. Other, more niche programs would be Revit (as mentioned by Zach) and ArcGIS. Will less standard, they will be highly beneficial in the future. Revit is a BIM (building…[Read more]

Autocad and Photoshop will treat you well to learn and be comfortable in.

I think the issue landscape architects face most when discussing our field with people not from design backgrounds, is a lack of understanding of the range of scales. Most of my friends and family that aren’t in a design field are only aware of the designed landscape at the residential scale of a garden or a backyard. Maybe this is due to the…[Read more]

autocad, photoshop, autodesk impression, calc.
and I´m use 3ds max. maybe very complicated for our work, but i like this. Rhino is good too, maybe better than 3ds max for creating natural objects. I hate sketchUp, but many people aruond me us it.

Yes, I agree with you regarding the title of Landscape Architect not being clearly understood like the title of “Architect.” However, I wonder how much better the public’s perception of the profession would be with a name change.

One of the issues is that Architects and Professional Engineers can stamp any plans that we design, but conversly, we…[Read more]

One additional program that might be worth taking sometime to get to know is Revit. I have a relative that is a mechanical engineer and he is working on a project in which EVERYTHING is being built in the program prior to final submittal/approval. While it is an amazing program it is not built for out type of work, but there maybe clients that…[Read more]

What are photosims?

AutoCAD/Vectorworks (Drafting Software in General)
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Google SketchUp (And if you want to be on the edge of things take a look at Rhino or any other Nurbs modeling software)

Quite the ambitious question to ask, as significant time and energy needs to be dedicated to extensively learn the capabilities…[Read more]

I read something in a novel which was saying “The people don’t realise their lackings, if they have never heard about fortune of better conditions.” İf we do good jobs, why don’t they respect us?Because ı think, this is primerly, a respect problem about their enviroments(consequently our jobs..) They don’t know or respect LA’s as much as a…[Read more]

No problem – definitely feel free to contact me. I am happy to help if I can, and can also put you touch with the current U of A student ASLA president if you want to talk to her at all. Student ASLA can be a great resource and opportunity, though, so I highly encourage getting involved and promoting it at ASU. Admittedly, the challenge for most…[Read more]

Thanks for the information, like I said because spring semester doesn’t start for another week and a half I don’t have a good reference as to how effective ASU’s chapter is, but I want to get involved this semester, because I didn’t hear anything about it fall semester. What I have heard from the students involved with the AIAS chapter here, they…[Read more]

Hi Zach – are you curious about how local ASLA chapters work with University chapters, or how university chapters function? I noticed also that you are in Arizona – are you going to ASU?

I just graduated last year from the University of Arizona, and can comment some on our ASLA situation. I felt like ASLA involvement at my university was pretty…[Read more]