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A couple more books to add to what is becoming quite a comprehensive list …
Designing California Native Gardens by Glenn Keator and Alrie Middlebrook.
The California Garden by Jere Stuart French.
The California Landscape Garden by Mark Francis and Andreas Reimann

A former boss of mine got so frustrated with this that he went to the Howard Univerisity School of Architecture and developed a site planning course for architects. He taught it for 20 years. It was very well rec’d and I am not sure why more architects are not taught site planning. They seem to enjoy it.

Hopefully for the same reasons more…[Read more]

I got a little off track on my response, but I really think it is a style of managment and not a communication issue. Not a lot of people think that every one involved in a project should know all of the details. It is a poor choice b/c many times I have been blindsided by information that could have been handled differently if we had known sooner…[Read more]

Pat, I’ve been on several heavily political projects and I have no problems working directly with city agencies or developers and believe it or not, developers are much easier to work with than architects. Everyone knows the issues on the table and a better product is developed because of that.

However, when we are working as a sub under an…[Read more]

witam Joanno,

Przez przypadek znalazlem ten watek i postanowilem podpytac jak tam ida poszukiwania pracy w Krainie Kangurow… Ja rowniez poszukuje pracy w Australii, no i poki co nic… Jestem tutaj od roku, jednak dopiero od kilku miesiecy rozsylam swoje CV ki. Zauwazylem jednak, ze jest co najmniej jest bardzo ciezko. Czy ty aplikujesz juz z…[Read more]

Sure, I get that.

I think most of us in this situation, however inexperienced, understand that there are some constraints out of our control or beyond our understanding that we just need to accept. I think the primary issue at hand is the working relationship between a manager and designer. It’s just as unconstructive when a senior partner or…[Read more]

Found this job posting on LinkedIN…thought I’d send it to you.

Visiting Contract Faculty Position, Department of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University

VISITING CONTRACT FACULTY POSITION
DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
MUNCIE, INDIANA

Contract faculty position available August 20, 2010. Responsibilities:…[Read more]

No, but many times clients prefer to work with more senior personnel. It is up to the managers to decide how much information is pertinant to the job or task in progress.

Some times things are confidential or extremly sensitive and you will just never get the info you would like or maybe even answers to why your proposed design won’t work. It is…[Read more]

Is it too much to ask for the lead or project manager to communicate those constraints?

That is quite a list. Thank you so much.

IMHO your sense of frustration is partly due to the fact that you do not have all of the information for the ultimate project development and thus propose solutions that seem good to you but may not work due to some other constraints not known to you. This is very common and it is something that is still frustrating to me after almost 20 years of…[Read more]

For water use info, the WUCOLS document may be of interest to you.

http://www.emwd.org/conservation/pdf/wucolsb.pdf

Anyone know of any lists where resiliency and maintenance needs of particular cultivars are rated?

Have you checked the UC Davis Arboretum All Stars? The list of 100 plants was devised for the Central Valley but I’ve found it equally useful as far away as Los Angeles. You may find some of these plants of interest. They are not all native but no Cal-IPC listed invasives are included either.

http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/allstars_browse.aspx

Hey Adam,
Great material on the blog so far! Look forward to seeing more.

I run LandscapeInvocation.com, so check it out when you get the chance.

http://lasgrwc2.org/Files/document/Sustainable%20Landscape%20Bibliography_Sustainable_Landscape_Bibliography_1_26_10.pdf

When is the last time you saw a landscape architect host a TV show, or anything else. They by their nature are in the background. Eddy George is the first football player / Landscape architect any one has ever heard of ,ever. You need to get off the bench, lead the parade in your town. ASLA can not make you a leader, and by the way your community…[Read more]

Think of ASLA as a club for professionals. It’s only value is what they can deliver of importance to it’s members. If you don’t recieve value in excess of the membership, you have two choices quit or squize the value out of it. I would suggest fighting for change at the local and national level, but that’s me. If you quit because someone else is…[Read more]

This may be ‘trash can’ philosophy, but I beleive it applies to everyone, including LA’s and our position.

‘Do what you’ve always done, and you’ll get what you’ll always get’
we need to refocus, a revolution…

Run for office, provide political leadership on all things green. Landscape architects are stewarts of the land by training and desire. Why not apply that training to other sustainable parts of our communities, states and nation. Fire service is a important part of any community, however no one looks at the subject form a stewarts point of view.…[Read more]