Activity

Andrew,

Congrats!! Very exciting…

I just leased my first office space….now I really need work.. 😉

Excellent!  

Congrats and best wishes!

The devil really is in the details.  Unfortunately, with gov cuts (planning) and the rest of us working 60 hrs to make the same as the old 40, those with much to gain are taking the process over–changing the meaningful things and leaving the window dressing.  Noble initiatives get morphed into faintly recognizable marketing tools. 

Yes, another great discussion on the topic!  Thanks for sharing @Chris…

Indeed… sometimes we forget that the process of designing should be fun!  

Smart growth, obviously, is about more than density. I think the pattern of development may be more important. They need to make sure that even lower density developments are walkable and allow for mixed uses. Even people who want to live in lower density areas probably would appreciate the ability to walk and bike to meaningful destinations. The…[Read more]

Indeed, be prepared to do a lot of research to figure out some of the vocabulary; my only piece of advice is that understanding that a Brit is writing it can help crack some of the text.

I gotta say they’re doing quite well – they got more of the theory than the attitude out of corner’s writing 🙂
I do love Martha, learned a lot in the short internship I had there.

Thanks Henry- especially for the note on price as a lot of books on LA are not cheap!

Tosh, thank you for sharing your perspective on the portfolio aspect & for the book recommendations.  I should probably start off with Rogers, but after reading the comments about Corner I’m eager for the challenge 🙂

Thanks, Andrew! The New School’s fun video definitely helps takes the edge of the whole process!

Congratulations Andrew!

Henry: Yeah, I’m not a fan of corner’s but it does get you knee deep and force you to learn the lingo (for better or for worse) and it does cover contemporary (albeit a decade old now) theory in a more general way than some of the other recent publications.  I did have a few classmates who did read it (backgrounds and strong theoretical interest…[Read more]

Excellent – congratulations Andrew! I don’t think you will ever regret it!

Hey Andrew,
Congratulations again!  I am sure there are many other Land8 members out there that would like to share business tips and advice.  Would it be helpful if we set up a specific forum category for this purpose?

Yep, that should do it 🙂

When it is all set, save your workspace:
 
“workspace”
type “sa” for save as
then type your name.
 
next time anything gets out of whack, type “workspace”, then “c” to set the current workspace, then type the name you named your workspace.
There is a pull down menu for it, if you like using icons.

give this a try?
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=7313200&linkID=9240617

It’s about creative potential as much as interest: photography, botanical sketches (stuff from your basic community college arts classes).  Lay them out in a graphically thoughtful manner with a short paragraph on your thought process/post-production analysis of each work and it’ll be competitive.  The essay/letter-of-intent/letters of r…[Read more]