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Cover letter: personalize it to the position you’re applying for, highlight what skills that are needed for the specific position you have (“you’re great, I’m great, we’re great together” was the format encouraged by my program – in engineering, but i think it applies here; you want to get them excited by the prospect of you wanting to work…[Read more]

I agree, personalizing the portfolio is usually done to make up for the lack of work. So you like to go snowboarding… so what?

You need text. A lot more text. You shouldnt let the graphics just speak for themselves. You need to give a summary of design intent, design process, design concept etc….

I agree with the other comments. This portfolio is a bit light on content. Include CAD work. E.g Grading Plans, Planting Plans, Construction documents. You should also include…[Read more]

Roland:

Compete for this.

http://archinect.com/jobs/entry/53228000/community-designer

Could be a real good experience for you, except you will have to replace Chinese language lessons with
Spanish. A much easier language to learn, trust me on that.

the BLA program at Mississippi State Univ. began in the mid 1960’s and accreditation was given  in 1972 if I remember correctly….I didn’t know what the big deal was at the time…now I do.
Oh, and they added the MLA many years later…not sure of the date.

Thanks to all so far. So we have UGA, NC State, and LSU…which makes 3, close to my recollection. Looking for #4….or whether the number exceeds that (pre Vietnam War era)…

With considerations on the design profile and depth of aggregate, BioBarrier is a solution for this application. It is used as a root (vertical), pipe wrapping (surround), and weed barrier (horizontal) by stopping root intrusion by inhibiting cell division at the root tip or seed in the application types.  Although it does utilize an above…[Read more]

UGA undergrad program started in 1928 and has been accredited since 1952. Grad program started in 1954.

Yeah I’d stay away from the Retina for now. To replace the battery will cost you 200 bucks!
 
You can never go wrong with a Mac, but don’t rule out the pc just because you hear horror stories of crashes and viruses. Those problem were common with XP, but Windows 7 is very stable, and the upcoming 8 will probably be even better. People get viruses…[Read more]

The new anti-austerity leader of France has good intentions, but so did Obama and he had about a six month “honeymoon” and Democratic majority in Congress at the time. Hence the passage of the stimulus and ultimately prevailing over the hysterical histrionics of the healthcare debate. After 2010, that whole success deck was reshuffled. Don’t…[Read more]

I am still looking around…. if I go for a mac it would be non-retina 15″ 2.6 ghz. probably. With student discount about $2000. I really like the ease and good quality of a mac but still a little bit scared of the price and the limitation with a few common LA programs. From my research it seems mac is not quite there as a widely accepted OS in…[Read more]

Are you considering buying the new $2000+ Macbook with Retina? The one where you can’t remove the battery or service it if something goes wrong? A $500 pc can do Sketchup, Autocad, and Adobe programs just fine… I’m not saying that Macs are bad, I like Macs, just saying something that a $2000 machine is overkill for the kind of programs you want to use.

You can go to a Junk yard, probably the auto parts will give y some inspirations!

Kyle,
Not sure if you have taken the plunge yet or not but I wanted to respond. To your question if there are compatibility issues between platforms with sketch up and “CAD”. As for sketch up I personally use mac as part of my consulting business and it seems to work better on mac than windows. The days of cross platform compatibility are long in…[Read more]

Are there any materials on site that could be re-purposed? Boulders, fencing, structures, concrete slabs etc..

stacking rectangular pieces of a saw-cut existing concrete slab could be a neat bench…

http://design.lsu.edu/landscape/?page_id=447. 

It would appear LSU’s Landscape Architecture program started somewhere around the 1940’s/1950’s, it’s not real clear in their department bio.

My fave is “The Garden an illustrated History” by Julia S. Berrall. Viking Press, NY.
it takes you from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to Thomas Church…..very nice pictures and narrative.
it’s an oldie but a goodie…..