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WOW! May be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on this site……………

Landscape architecture is design on the land. It is such a broad topic that anyone can cruise around it and pick things out in just about any subject or philosophy and make points that try to sway things this way or that way. None of it defines the profession or the state of the profession because it simply is “design on the land”. It is always…[Read more]

Also, a masters in urban studies does not compare to an MLA. Imagine the paper writing for the masters with the studio work for the BSLA at the same time and you have the fun that is the MLA.

An accredited MLA degree for someone with a non-design background is 3 years, not 2, FYI. In which case it compares equally to a BSLA in design training, as most BSLAs are 4 years, and 1 year of that essentially is gen.eds that MLAs do not take.

I think the base attraction for an MLA is that you have someone with the design training of a BSLA,…[Read more]

Very interesting read with lots of great points – many of which we’ve been discussing here over the last year or so.

My thoughts:
LA probably doesn’t need a unified theory – we have different ‘schools’ of thought and tradition – the authors named many of the modern ones; social conscience (though social control is closer to the truth), modernism,…[Read more]

Ok, Thomas, that IS funny..

That’s an interesting piece. It has a number of valid points. Though those concerns have existed since the beginning of our profession. I don’t think you can say “this” is landscape architecture, nor should we be able to. Within the profession there are a number specialties and focuses, each unique, specific and part of the whole. As a landscape…[Read more]

OK, here we go… in the name of brevity, morning coffee and humor…Well, I may have come up short on the humor bit again, but you get the gist…

An Ode to the Granny Flatters

Working class citizens
your homes are so close
to the business district
I prefer the most

They are well built
of brick and with yards
your neighborhood has parks
and…[Read more]

Wow. An interesting read. Lots for me to think about. I hope it’s not dead. I enjoy what I do even thought it is different form what other LA’s do.

Mr. G, I was not laughing, it just was not funny..All I could feel from Thomas was condescension, frustration, and anger and the need to lash out – if it was irony he was after, he needed to be wittier about it, instead of so voluminously verbally diarrehtic….

I don’t like long posts in general, it seems so self-indulgent to me..

But it also…[Read more]

I was laughing when I read it. I felt the stress of the current situation, his and the overall, as well. It is one way of many diverse ways to look at what is going on. You don’t have to be against something to point out the irony of situations. Let’s face it.

There is irony all over the place. … urban renewal cleans up dilapidated…[Read more]

but you weren’t really funny, in your rant, just angry and condescending…And my government job is only three years old, and when I was in your position, 1990, I had been laid off from a $30,000 a year job as a designer for a nursery,and spent the next four years as a gardener in the summers and working for a florist and teaching landscape design…[Read more]

tOO

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I found them both critical and humorous while appreciating your frustration at the same time. There is nothing wrong with a good rant mixing some bitter reality with humor, and pointing out absurdity as you see it. Not everyone has to agree with you on all of it, but I think we can all agree with a lot of it. I happen to agree with most of it, but…[Read more]

“Agriculture should be local, end of story” is the most idealistic and naive thing you could say. Should agriculture be local if you live in an arid climate without local fresh water sources? Should agriculture be local if you don’t have the right soils? Agriculture is destroying the rain forest and agriculture in poor soils created the dust…[Read more]

Many states will allow an architects stamp for many LA functions (there is some overlap), unless there is special requirements by the state saying that a LA must stamp the plans. I’ve seen tons of landscape plans stamped by engineers if they are part of an engineering set, and being that I worked in an Architecture office, often had my plans…[Read more]

From what I have seen, the model is kept by the city planning department, like plats. Check out this article.

http://aecmag.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307&Itemid=36