Alan Ray, RLA

mauiBob, they have always tried to take over our jobs….we just have to continue to do our job  better than they do. I think a lot of the problem, besides the economy, is the weaker education students are getting now makes our profession doable by anyone….I interviewed some students recently and learned, much to my shock, that they no longer…[Read more]

the two should converge…..
all buildings are not architecture….

with a philosophy degree, l guess you could open a philosophy shop….

no, I don’t like it and do not visit the site as much anymore…
it’s rather boring and information is harder to find….
 

thanks Robert and all Ya’ll….
I appreciate your advice. I’ll check all these suggestions out….

thanks for posting Andrew, I hope he’s right.
 

thanks for posting….one of my design heros.
great to see this must have book is out.

1. Autocad
2. BricsCad…very economical and powerful.

he has expanded the wars….”meet the new boss, same as the old boss”

that’s what makes Tracie feel soooo superior to us public ed morons…..
I thought that with her extreme leftist idealogy that she would love and embrace government controlled education.
People that come in here with other than their real names makes me suspect they are not  even licensed LAs’…..
 

Yes, I thought Penn was Penn State, my mistake…
 

They used landscape designer, they didn’t use landscape architect.
so, no fine this time. when th glacier gets registered you’ll see the title change…..

the only famous LA I know of is Olmstead. Name another LA that the general public has even heard of….
we all know Eckbo, Halprin, Sassaki, Church, etc., but ask one of your clients if thety know who they are.
Some people know Olmstead when you remind them what he did and oh yeah, he has a postal stamp.

famous to whom?
I’ve 42 years of schooling and professional practice in landscape architecture and have never heard of Parkkim…perhaps I’ve seen his/her work somewhere???
would like to see his/her work if you think he’s/she’s famous somewhere….

Leave it alone, I love the stench of it as is!
 

you want a proverb, so here’s a proverb, literally, “……he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly” proverbs 13:20

get your masters in Economics….might come in handy some day.
if you don’t want to teach then forget it.

so you just want to criticize another profession….
you’ve done that, now please move on to another professional group to which you belong.
we get plenty of the jealous types that do no understand what we do criticizing us already!

there was a Barbra Streisand movie in the 70s where her love interest was a la student I think. Can’t remember the name of the movie

yes, “a contest of interests” he nailed it….thanks for posting Henry. While the memorial is very powerful, I agree with him 100% the site should have been left as an open space….