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I guess my mind just goes back to a firm that an Architecture friend of mine brought to my attention.  B.I.G. (http://www.big.dk/)  While I know that Building Architects work differently, I love some of their simple diagrams that they have on their website.  If you click on just about any project they have on their webpage and scroll through the p…[Read more]

No words intended.
Where two soaring monuments to commercial hubris stood are now two bottomless pits that weep continuously. They are so large that apparently they can be seen from space. We have outdone the Taj Mahal in expressing grief.It is how we choose to define ourselves today.
That’s a lot of grief!

Wow, Henry – a really good read – thanks! and you are right..one really needs to see it, before judging..Guilty as charged!!!

Rob, there are no words with the picture, in your link…Just the picture..Is that your intent?  (or is it my computer not working properly..?) I find your take interesting and would like to read more, if there is more?

As a designed landscape it is a profound expression of what we have made of that event.
The Memorial tells us nothing of what happened but a great deal of how we reacted to it.
 
http://wandermelon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/911memorial.jpg
 
Is this not what America feels like today? I don’t like this design, but I am in awe of i…[Read more]

Speaking of Breaking and Entering, its the only movie I’ve seen that portrays LAs tackling a major urban design project. That is the side of landscape architecture that I wish more of the public knew about. There’s this scene where Jude Law’s character is digitally inserted into a model of their big project.  He sounds more like a landscape ar…[Read more]

I think they are making a movie based on “The Devil in the White City,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  I wonder who will play Olmsted?

I am sure that no one is realisticly hoping to play a LA in a feature film, but it is more of a fun way to see how we are percieved by pop culture. It is fun to watch “how I met your mother” on tv and see the things that they think an Architect is. Of course he always has models and sits in front of his drafting board. Even though we have only…[Read more]

You could say that about anything, Mike!  A home renovation has a massive team of stakeholders..Are you saying design criticism is pointless? I beg to differ. And as for addressing a massive group of varied stakeholders, you are aware that the single design was chosen with the single designer (for the park part) there was no massive response to…[Read more]

I have to say kudos to all involved with the redesign of the entire site. There will be tons of if’s, should, could, etc associated with this destination in lower Manhattan. The fact is that a team was chosen, and they undertook one of the most politically and emotionally charged sites in all of the US if not the world. Critics can say what they…[Read more]

I read someone describe the two holes with water draining into them as symbolic of the amount of money spent on this thing.. that is it, for me..Those empty voids – BAD design idea in my book.

Hi There,
If you’re still interested I can help about Copenhagen! Are you talking about hte LIFE University or the Architecture school? They both have a Landscape program.
 
cheers,
 
Ale.

Unless your considering a career change with more “Hollywood” attached to it than continuing to slog it through this crushing economic time warp we are in ( in the current profession we assume you to be in) your choice of discussion topic seems a little vapid.
Still, with the comment by our resident film critic, the plug-in head himself, Mr. Ni…[Read more]

I think that most clients wouldn’t understand much of the design process and what it involves, maybe the reason why they hire a professional in the first place.I actually found that most clients can’t or never fully understand drawings but that’s another subject. Most potential clients would be more impressed by the pictures of completed work that…[Read more]

Green Card, Andie McDowell is a garden designer…
How about expand to fiction – I love Agatha Christie’s mystery that revolves around a garden in an old quarry, and the garden designer who was obsessed with his creation..

… and others simply want to know how much back room production you can put out before they use you up and replace you with the next one at an intern pay rate.

sunshine state looks great..
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHgEOAkjTVE

Simple answer:
 
Know your audience. In most cases professional offices are marketing to clients who are typically most impressed by the finished product, ie built projects.
 
Individuals are marketing themselves toward professional offices who are most impressed/concerned with design ability.
 
Example: Try taking your academic coursework out to…[Read more]