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The question is not whether or not discrimination exists – and it exists everywhere to one degree or another. The question is what is the next course of action.
 
Discrimination is usually subtle and hard to decipher. That makes it very difficult to prove. It also is very easy to believe that any bump in the road is attributable to discrimination…[Read more]

Yeah, doing punch lists on a new construction job is always interesting. In the five years i’ve been working, only ONCE have i encountered another female on site. Sometimes the superintendent listens to me and takes my comments seriously and responds, sometimes they don’t. I’ve never experienced any blatantly obvious discrimination- no one has…[Read more]

sorry, wanted to add – a friend of mine posted this FB thing a few weeks ago – typical FB, “List your top ten favorite guitarists, in two minutes,” or something like that…Easy, right? Eric Clapton, Christopher Parkening, Jeff Beck, etc.
Now have that list include even one woman..It’s a stretch…
So what is up with that?

The inability of women to make progress in the working world is just so – weird – I sometimes really am looking for a new paradigm to understand it..everything has been recorded, documented, and written about for forty years, it seems to me, and there is just some kind of – something – that cannot be moved..
I geuss progress is slow, the wheels o…[Read more]

Wow! Miracles do happen! Finally, a subject Russell and I can agree on. I agree with his comments 110%. You might be living in Disneyland or Pixar Studios if you don’t think there’s discrimination of any kind in the workplace. A white man, during 95% of his life span never encounters racial discrimination…unless he is living in Hawaii. Then, he…[Read more]

Deryn-

I am intrigued by the responses to your question. You certainly got an awesome question left to much debate.  My advice because you are just beginning your career and your graphics are already intermediate is go for it!  You will meet so many people who will influence your career, the workshop will help you get a job, that’s probably the m…[Read more]

If you convince yourself that you are not a victim, there is no waiting around for intervention (that is not coming). You move forward with a more determination. That is what uncategorized people do without hesitation. They get no sympathy. They get no help. They don’t take the time to call out for it.
 
I’m not saying that you are not a victim. A…[Read more]

If there was truly no discrimination in landscape architecture, you would see equal numbers of female ASLA fellows, equal numbers of women in ownership, partnership and managerial roles, equal numbers of women in professorships. Women have made up half of the landscape architecture graduates for some years now (ranging between 45%-55%). We should…[Read more]

BZ,
 
As a middle aged male that attends a lot of meetings that are dominated in number by males and having participated in back room chatter, I do not believe that women and their input are generally treated any differently than men. I hear plenty of stereotypes about various professions or mind sets of certain companies, but I can not remember…[Read more]

Anything to keep your job secure works for me! Is your firm landscape architects or video game programmers? You know where I stand. Good luck.

“Lately I’ve been noticing an annoying occurrence on several of the project teams I’m on. On more than one occasion, I’ve been seated at the conference table discussing a project with the entire team (architects, engineers, etc.) and i feel like my voice and opinions and suggestions are totally falling on deaf ears”.
 
Welcome to Landscape…[Read more]

Thanks, Brian!  I’ll give him a ring…

Man, that is expensive.  I went to SUNY ESF, amazing school, top notch professors and great local restaurants.  8k tuition a year without fellowships, which a lot of grad students got, so around 4.5k plus cost of living.  Even with the realative affordability of the program, upon graduation my debt was around 50k, which is $350 a month for the ne…[Read more]

Have you researched any existing plans of the land that you will be working on? I would recommend going with someone who already has established control on the site because they do not have to charge to re-invent the wheel and they should be able to turn the job around faster because they already have it set up. …. I work in a civil/survey office.

Hi Ann, you’ve brought up really good points…in regards to the alumna connections. I know as an Cornell alum that Cornell’s network is vast and strong …whereas City College just graduated its 3rd class and there is a lack of strong alumni networking -however the prof’s are practicing in the city and I’d presume have connections in NYC fi…[Read more]

I would love to take one of Mike Linn’s workshops!
At Colorado State I had the pleasure of spending two days with Christopher Grubbs and it changed the way I perceive and draw the world. I’m by no means great but it made me leaps better. We also had two very talented professors at school. One had a more architectural style, the other was more…[Read more]