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James Hartley replied to the topic Office structure in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 7 years ago
Obviously some degree of lag between my check-in’s here.. but better late than never.
Restructuring is a work in progress… slow change needed on this sort of thing to avoid completely disrupting the workflow. We’ve just opened a new office though… Things going well.
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Leslie B Wagle started the topic Handling software preferences of clients in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 7 years ago
OK this is going to come across as a micro concern, but I told somebody else I would start it. Has anyone run into situations where potential clients are starting to insist on certain software being used….and I’m not talking about in collaborations with other professional offices on CAD platforms. Just your business and even residential type…[Read more]
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Leslie B Wagle started the topic Unfulfilled hopes, destructions and reinventions in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 7 years ago
My last try at a neutral topic was a few months ago when I asked if other LA’s had some deep-rooted longing to do a certain type of project that had eluded them. Mine was a “sculpture garden,” and someone said their choice was golf course, etc. I had a spasm of remorse about bringing it up and erased the whole thing, which I shouldn’t have done.…[Read more]
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Leslie B Wagle replied to the topic Is Land8 withering on the vine? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 7 years ago
I also check by relatively often and harbor a thought or two now and then for possible topics. But what I think happened, is that when it was last active, the blog suffered somewhat (as everything nowadays) from disgressing into the poison of politics and/or climate change, even on other topics or the leanings of the participants just surfaced…[Read more]
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Andrew Garulay, RLA replied to the topic Job locations for Landscape Architects in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 7 years ago
The counter point to that is that the areas that you would not consider are areas with people with a lot of money, a high amount of “keep up with the Jonses” mentality, and a lot of regulation. All of these things add up to more opportunity in general as well as a higher need for design professionals not only to meet their aesthetic needs, but…[Read more]
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Casey M. Nelson became a registered member 7 years ago
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Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Assuming Beauty [Video] 7 years ago
During the Land8x8 Lightning Talks in Seattle, Laura Rose, Principal at the landscape architecture and planning firm Walker Macy, contemplated the role of beauty in design.
At a time when landscape ar […]
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When I saw ‘Beauty’ in this post’s title, I immediately wondered if David Brooks would be referenced and sure enough, there he is! Mr. Brooks is, of course, the compassionate conservative commentator on the PBS NewsHour and other media outlets as well as an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times. He occasionally writes about culture. Several years ago, he wrote a column entitled, “When Beauty Strikes”, for the Times. In this column, he quotes Leon Wieseltier, who in a Times Book Review stated, “We live in a post-humanist moment”. Brooks argues that in this ‘moment’ we are “beauty poor and meaning-deprived”. The post-humanist moment is perhaps better understood as the worldview we currently hold which Brooks considers to be the opposite of one based on beauty. Beauty, according to Brooks is, “… a big transformational thing, the proper goal of art and maybe civilization itself”. To say this another way, our current worldview is to make money, buy lots of stuff, live unsustainably, rely on technology for happiness, and occasionally include beauty in our lives as an afterthought.
Maybe if we embraced humanism a little more, we wouldn’t have to, “lead the discourse on mitigating climate change, fostering community, and enacting social change”.
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OLAE started the topic Free Landscape Architecture Tutorials in the forum TECHNOLOGY 7 years ago
Way back in 2011, I started uploading tutorials on SketchUp, AutoCAD, and Photoshop to a Youtube channel I created, Digital Arch Land. After years of neglect, I’ve recently been uploading new tutorials under a new name and brand, OLAE, or Online Landscape Architecture Education. I cover topics featuring Rhino, Lumion, AutoCAD, but I am also…[Read more]
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