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If you’d be willing to try something in Reno, NV rather than Las Vegas, try contacting Interpretive Gardens/Pinyon Design
( http://www.pinyondesign.com/ ) . I can’t promise you they would be able to help you, but it’s a very inspiring place to work. They specialize in water efficient design and permaculture.

Katharine, thank you for your offer the Illinois Chapter Host Committee would like to discuss this with you. You can contact me at kgraham@planres.com and we can see what can be done.

Also, overly theoretical education makes me crazy. I had much experience of that at NYU. ( Although now I realize that when you’re an undergraduate at least, its fairly harmless.) Maybe even when you’re a grad…..

Thanks again everyone for your continuing feedback… Andrew your comments about teachers vs clients are very smart. I can definitely remember undergrad teachers who I didn’t mesh well with and yet learned from (or was forced to learn something from, in order to benefit from the experience!). And from my (albeit relatively short) experience as a…[Read more]

Hi Jess, hope you are finding the posts to your question helpful. I’d like to add a little based on my experience. Yes I have a bachelors in LA however I will say, although the undergraduate degree I received certainly geared my thought process and design eye, it was only in real working experience where I learned the most valuable items. I worked…[Read more]

Will,

While I have no direct experience with the firm mentioned above, I did peruse their website and it looks like they have a quality product specifically designed for your occupation. More importantly, they hit all of the correct key buzz words that I mentioned above in terms of contract review and a more traditional risk management approach…[Read more]

In Colorado. I believe it is 10+ years experience to sit for the LARE with no la degree. I think you still need to have experience in that time working under a licensed LA.

I didn’t know there was that great of a difference between a BLA and BSLA. Fwiw, I have a BSLA and I learned to make websites (albeit stuck in the 90’s lol). If I wanted to…[Read more]

I will put in another plug for the BLA. Don’t get a BSLA. The difference is 4 years of school vs. a 5 year “professional program”, and once you do that (which shouldn’t be too tough to do p/t and since you’re degreed already, you may be able to eliminate a bunch of general ed) – after which, you should be working towards licensure. I felt that my…[Read more]

this already exists in civil 3D. there are many ways to go back and forth between the civil CAD plans and Revit fairly seemlessly. the problem lies in the fact that the civil engineers i deal with are not using civil 3D to its full capacity and thus the integration with BIM or Revit, is lost. Our in house Civil engineer hads explored this and it…[Read more]

Thanks everyone, for the detailed and thoughtful feedback so far! I appreciate the sharing of experiences… This is really turning the issue inside out for me, its great to hear different perspectives. Unfortunately, I don’t know if realistically I could pay for four more years of school. But just knowing there is such a huge gulf between the…[Read more]

I would have to say the best thing to do is to visit with the program you are thinking about attending and if they are in session see if you can sit in on a presentation of projects from the current students. This will give you an idea of what you are getting into. I was in the same boat as Nick, because i was not willing to “drink the kool-aid”…[Read more]

I’ve shared my story here a few times and it’s probably getting a little old, but anyway…I was a landscape designer/contractor prior to returning to school for my BSLA in 2004. Andrew G knows probably all too well about the conflict I was facing similar to yours back then when contemplating leaving relatively successful positions as a landscape…[Read more]

I think that’s why we should promote what we currently call green building techniques simply as practical techniques to help towards the goal of reducing long and short term costs. If I think a swale is the best option for reducing infrastructure costs or something in some project, I’d rather not have the idea dismissed simply because it’s…[Read more]