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Recently I visited Jones and Jones in Seattle, WA with the UGA CED Land 4800/6800 West Coast Field Trip. Here is a project that they had completed that was successful:
http://www.jonesandjones.com/work/pdf/regions/US_Highway_93.pdf

great description of each LA tier!
I like your dad’s saying “if you can’t get it done in work hours, you don’t belong here”   it’s a matter of managing your time effectively and knowing when to delegate work, of course there are exceptions to every rule.

4th paragraph of story: this is another building operated by the same corporation (not the one I knew of in the earlier post which was in another city). Still, what a bad pattern.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100946015

Stephen,
In one of my most recent clients we found that if the staff was familiar with Illustrator or Indesign they liked the user interface better than AutoCAD and these individuals learned more quickly. The biggest challenge is the difference in use of the command line in AutoCAD. If you are like me and you solely used the command prompts there…[Read more]

Stephen
Here is a link to the Vectorworks folks. They do free webinars on a regular basis. This link is for a VW Landmark Demo that should be a good look at the basics. If you join the newsletter, you also get free access to a wealth of past demos. Well worth the time.
Good luck.   
http://www.novedge.com/webinar/83

Just buy a version or two older (in the case of AutoCAD the file version change is only every 3 yrs ’04, ’07, ’10, ’13; in Adobe’s case it differs), it seems like half the time I have to save down for a consultant anyway.  And if the client is in Revit, they have to save out the files into AutoCAD anyway.
AutoCAD and Adobe have gone to…[Read more]

Hey Robert
How much of a transition is this to VW? I am not that proficient in AutoCAD anyway and to be honest hate the programme so that would not be a big deal, i am very proficient in Sketchup and Photoshop though and i am thinking that if this VW is a 3d software it will make my sketchup skills obsolete!
Also how do you find working with Engi…[Read more]

Steve,
Not sure if you feel you need to buy AutoCAD specifically or that’s what you are familiar with but I would suggest that you look into Vectorworks Landmark. As someone who started out on my own I evaluated all that you did and made the move away from AutoCAD and have been very happy with the results. VW Landmark gives you 3d along with site…[Read more]

Cheers guys

In response to illegal bootleging, Adobe has moved to monthly subscription service for their latest suite. It’s not a bad option because you can bill the cost to your client… I think Photoshop costs like 60 bucks a month. I wouldn’t doubt if Autocad moved to a monthly subscription as well in the near future.

Katharine – what container sizes do you offer in the larger specimen aeoniums, agaves and aloes? Are any of the aoniums more tolerant of cold…down below freezing?

I use AutoCAD LT which costs about $900.

There are many Intellicad programs out there which are full ACAD clones that run around $300.
 
there are free photoimaging programs like paint.net or Gimp, but they are not the same as photoshop – maybe good enouh for what you want to do or maybe not.
 

as far a s work goes for being in school, expect a lot of late nights / early mornings.
I started the program at uga as a freshman with 20 people then by 5th year it was maxed out at about 70 people and the program was turning people away….
 
as far as the professional world, I have worked at a design build and large engineering firm.
 
design b…[Read more]

You stated that there are not very many opportunities in the States here, and I’m wondering where you see there being more opportunities.  I just graduated in May of this year with my Bachelor’s in Landscape Architecture form North Dakota State University.  I am more then willing to move for a job, I am fine with doing mostly AutoCad and p…[Read more]

btw out of those 100 students I refered to; approx. 30% of those students I started with graduated in that profession with me four years later.
as Robert pointed out…  It’s not for the faint of heart and you need to be flexible and willing to learn and adapt. 
It’s one of those professions most people never heard of except through HGTV (BL…[Read more]

I was actually going to school to be an architect and didn’t get into the program, my school advisor said there was an opening in the Landscape Architecture class so I took the opportunity and found myself with a 100 other rejected architecture students and 3 students who truely wanted to be a landscape architect.
Overall I enjoy what I do;…[Read more]

All of the places mentioned are good but you can’t pass up the Alhambra in Granada. I believe it’s the only one of its kind left (still intact). You’ll spend a good 4 hours there and shoot 4 rolls of film.

I agree with all above.

You’ll be doing a lot of sections, plans, and putting together presentation packages for all phases of design. So you need to be able to follow direction well, and have the courage to jump right in and start making whatever they want you to do. That involves having the right technical skills (digital or hand depending on…[Read more]

In an entry-level position, I’d say the critical skills are probably the ability to balance creativity with practicality (have great ideas, but also understand what is buildable and what is specifically wanted/needed/required by the client and the context of the project), as well as efficiency (it’s all well and good to be fluent in CAD and…[Read more]