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In just my quick response, there doesn’t seem to be any hard lines around this concept; or maybe people are just creative in their use of “therapeutic garden” as a term. It seems to encompass anything from just more smells and colors included for the elderly to enjoy, all the way to seriously designed areas for a special target group, with details…[Read more]

Earthworker wrote the type of reply I was actually going to write to you myself, but, in a rare moment of indecision, I decided to keep mine decidely upbeat. All the points Earthworker raises are undeniably and irrevocably true. You can chose to inhale whatever reality warping and mind altering compounds that make up the rarified air you seem to…[Read more]

You have my sympathies too earthworker.

I wrote this series of blog posts on render maps a couple of years back.  Here is the first one
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial-bump-maps
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial-1
it goes from transparency maps to bump maps to displacement maps though ideally all…[Read more]

Sadly, I feel you have not really grasped the reality and magnitude of what this profession has endured over the past five years.  I honestly hope you gathered real world information about the current and future state of the industry from others outside academia.  Did you not read the posts on this forum stating the plain facts about this p…[Read more]

Great topic!  Check out http://www.archivitamins.com/

http://www.dougadavies.com

I have a full list under entourage.

I agree that those who sling their portfolios with intent will get the work out there. 

I think a major lack in general LA education is that aspect of the profession; how to go out and drum up business. 

We have to explain to all sorts of initially disinterested laypersons what our purpose even IS (and some of us don’t have a neat soundbite f…[Read more]

hey guys.this site also has some nice cutouts-http://www.digitalcutout.com

Kim:
 
A very wise choice as I commented before. I have  been following employment downside trends in our profession for enough time now, and so have others here, to tell you that you will be in one of the few states that actually has apparently had enough of an economy that is still breathing oxygen and, therefore creating jobs in the design p…[Read more]

Throwing caution to the wind and heading to UT this summer to begin an MLA program!  

You might find this link useful. There’s plenty of opportunity in the Middle-East for the field.

http://gnads4u.com/jobs

Passion is a wonderful thing. Getting work is a wonderful thing. They are not the same thing, although it is beneficial to all when they coexist.
 
My comment about “shooting” instead of “talking”  is related to this. Many of us look at architects doing “landscape architecture” and want them to stop. The question is not how to stop them, but s…[Read more]

Coco, I have to admit I’m not sure what you mean by Landscape Architecture being “more like reversi (the game). If something goes wrong in such a small space, that can change a whole thing. I am looking at more of positive side so it means that one little thing can change a whole thing as a system.”

I don’t know reversi but I think you might be…[Read more]

A little bit like time is money? Somehow people adopting the idea of sustainability without realisation. Things have changed dramatically over a few years. Next generation don’t even have the same view or perception to what we have.
From this point I am very interested in school environment and from now on I think it will be something I am f…[Read more]

This is interesting. As taking the word of Tuco Rimerez, maybe more of collaboration works needed then? Would that work?
I do understand. Everyone work for some profit I guess although it seems like there are some environmental passionate people and community building passionate people out there.
 

Sorry for the very late reply. And thanks for the comment!!! Very much appreciated.
>>As Tuco Rimerez said (“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” ), if you are going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk about it.
I think the same on probably everything else, however with this topic it is very sort of wired things happening. And I thought there are some…[Read more]

I have been going to Archinect for years and never really seen anything objectionable.  They tend to be more negative towards architecture than any other discipline.