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Well if maui can explain how an unemployed grad will get their license…besides living in Idaho maybe that would be a real argument against self employment. Besides the fact that many people never get their license and do just fine if not better then those that have. How is doing AutoCad for years at a giant firm teaching you design? I see April…[Read more]

Unless your an LA working for the government. hahahhahaha.

I agree…Business!

hahah…I thought they had changed the standards and was rolling my eyes. haha. I think I should create my own standard. Thanks for the laugh.

Although you learn much quicker when it is your own dime. hahha. OUCH.
Give yourself some credit Craig…I have seen many seasoned designs and they are nothin’ to brag about. Did I say that out loud? The hardest thing we struggled with was cost estimating and detail. But straight out of school we did have general design concepts down pretty well.…[Read more]

When I say PNW…I mean the Pacific Northwest. Not a firm. 🙂 In the Pacific Northwest including Boise, there are large graduation rates for nursing and many nurses are holding off on retiring due to their spouse being laid off. I believe in Seattle they were about a 1000 jobs short of what incoming grads needed. I think that had to be the most…[Read more]

It is not like Coke and Pepsi that have to market to each individual consumer. The people developing on a scale which requires the likes of an EDAW know who is who in the design business whether or not they change their names every year.
 
The “one stop shopping” is the issue that we need to observe, understand, and possibly react to. Efficiency…[Read more]

thank you 🙂

Ha!

You’re right. The American Seminar Leaders Association (ASLA) has no reason to change their name.

I believe it is a non issue.  While it is sad to see EDAW transform into a division of AECOM, I don’t think EDAW was any more recognizable outside of the built environment industry then any other Landscape Architecture firm.  Additionally there are many top firms that are beginning to either remove or simply not place the title of Landscape A…[Read more]

hi chris –  in my experience civils do not use grading as a design tool but they execute grading like an engineer (without certain sensitivities). there’s a difference. imho

The challenge with planting along artificial waterfalls is using plants which look like they are water edge plants, but are actually in an micro environment which is not all that wet.  I don’t know your plant zone is, but I would suggest plants which take a somewhat dryer environment and which mimic those in the more moist environment of a…[Read more]

thanks:)

RE: mentoring. Couldn’t agree more.  I think the mentor/mentee relationship is one of the most profoundly important relationships a person could have.  However, how many professionals have you met in your career are willing or have the time/energy to be mentors?  I have heard engineers and lawyers complain for years about the dearth of me…[Read more]

done, good luck 😉

very funny Roland! I think you forgot the unobtanium that will circulate through the virtual air-waves harvesting any bad energy and transmitting it to the architects in the parallel universe..
I actually read that whole thing. Ya got me..along with NPR’s story about embryos getting DNA tests for pre-school admissions in Manhattan..
..I was…[Read more]

Yes, of course. Mostly on the physics of electromagnetism. Start studying.

thanks for your support:)