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I’m biased, but I loved UVA – good balance of technology and hand work, and a good distribution of coursework that is well taught and thought out.  They have a clear pedagogy and the faculty within the school (including planners, architects and historians) is well knit and very friendly.  
pm me if you have specific questions

I am sold on the Microsoft Surface Pro if it can run Sketchup

Wow that is an awesome drawing.

Thanks everyone for your input. I will let you know what comes out of this.

Another possible fit might be Tal Thevenot with Aquaterra Outdoors.  I don’t know him personally, though he was a year or two ahead of me at Kansas State.  They are based in Frisco, which is about 30 minutes away.  Their work seems to be top notch and they’ve handled a wide range of projects, though their niche is high end residential.  I don…[Read more]

Check out Walpole Woodworker. The  stock gate details should be helpful.

I have dealt with http://www.marlinlandscape.com/
We did not end up completing the project but the dealings we had with them were professional.

awesome drawing

Thank you Robert for your sharing with me your experience in China. I too have the same feeling that majority of design firms in

Landscaper’s Challenge

if you’ll google wood gates and fences you will find hundreds of good and bad ones to choose from….

Hi Alan, no I am not, but I have never worked on a gate detail and was trying to find some ideas in terms of hardware and material used.

Laith, Daniel is always available for real projects.
I find his renderings very approachable, not too fussy and the fact they can be quickly revised and you can generate multiple views (with different shadows etc) makes him a cut above the more static renderings.

I can help you. Do you need them urgently?

8 means lucky, fortune and wealth in China 😉

It is always odd that there are so many licensed surveyors that too poor a job at providing good surveys. That being said, a good surveyor is critical in minimizing cost overruns on a project – we worked with one in VA that located any oddities and followed up via deeds, etc (above and beyond the contractual obligation).  The surveyor saved our…[Read more]

1. LAs need to be more insistent on being recognized by clients especially in the public sector for the work they do.  They also need to understand that marketing is valuable to the firm as well as the profession and should be amply budgeted.
2. There are plenty of scheduling software packages out there.  Meeting minutes is a good measure to k…[Read more]

When I actually get to practice landscape architecture, it’s pretty easy. That said, I need a new tool – right now I’m thinking that a 40,000V cattle prod might do the trick – that magically encourages small-town surveyors who evidently face no competition to use those handy little thingies in AutoCAD called “layers,” while at the same time does…[Read more]

Streetscapes. Check them out:)

In Sweden we are using AutoCad 2014 and Novapoint. Works great with Xrefs! A tip: create filters on your layers in the layer manager.