Arun Ravi

  
Render Landscape Plan
How you can render a landscape plan with the following easy steps:

• Outline your plan with pen (LePen used). Use tips: straight edge, circle template, overlap corner, professional dot, gap.
• Outline two trees with heavier Sharpie pen next to thinner pen as they are closer to your eyes.
• For more details, click here.

Six approaches to layout a successful space
After we have completed the bubble diagram, site analysis and preliminary design, often we are stuck in determine how to lay out appropriate lines to a successful space.  By laying your design on one of the six grids and follows each approach’s rule, a satisfying result can easily be obtained.  6 e…[Read more]

Thanks for the invite, Mike.  This is great!

Mr. Lin,
 
when will your next 7 day workshop be in the United states?

Just what I wanted…more green streets!

Hi all…Just joined and am really interested in Chinese and Japanese landscape architecture.  China is what made me switch from International Environmental Policy to Landscape Architecture and so I now feel the need to give back in some way shape or form.  Excitement abounds.

Quick thumbnail sketch #1
It is only 3″x4″ in size and colored with markers and colored pencil using all six colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple). Outlined with Prismacolor black pencil.  Took only 5 minutes, it is a great way to communicate your great ideas quickly with your clients.  Remember, the best designers who don’t need t…[Read more]

Hello, does anyone in the philadelphia, new York or Delaware area have dynascape design program on their computer. Thanks for your response

@ Peter Coyle.  Regarding the pdf portfolio you uploaded to this wall, here are my comments on layout.
Cover page:  clean layout but a missed opportunity to immediately showcase your skills.  Consider some of your images as a semi-transparent background, or a small thumbnail strategically placed.  Re-format the cover to landscape orientation so…[Read more]

Hy everybody¡¡ what about the shaderlight ?

Hi All,
I am the UK’s leading recruiter for landscape architects. I will soon be opening a new office in HK. I am interested in developing professional relationships with landscape architects in HK / China. I will be in HK 8th – 18th August. If anyone would like to meet please let me know. 
Regards
Carl Thomas (carl@huntblue.com)

Since setting this up some time back. I’ve sadly not been on for a long time. Considering changing he name to CHscape now…. As I’ve move over to china. Currenly looking for LAs of all levels and grades for a range of projects across china. If your creative and 100% design focused oh…… And interested or know someone who might be please…[Read more]

Update! I’ve just added an 8-week online portfolio e-blast course for professionals along with my regular 16-week course.  It is a condensed version of the traditional course for those of you wanting to get your personal portfolio website out there fast! 
All the info and registration materials are here.
pageteaches.com/
16-week course starts A…[Read more]

Hi! I also would love anyone to review my attached portfolio and offer any critiques! NB: this is a low resolution copy for upload size reasons, so smaller text is illegible (focusing on general content/layout). Thanks in advance for any comments!
-Peter
PeterCoylePortfolio01.pdf

Hello
I am Charles Cobble recently returned to Shanghai from a year or so in Abu Dhabi.  It is good to be back home.  I look forward to learning more about not only the design of landscape in Asia  but also the business of it as well.  I hope you all are as busy as you want to be.

LARE Review Sections A-B-D – August 20 – Baton Rouge

The Louisiana Chapter ASLA is hosting review sessions for the upcoming LARE exam for sections A, B & D on Saturday, August 20th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in Baton Rouge (location to be announced). The all three sessions are taught by Matt Mathes, ASLA (PPI author of study guides used in 49…[Read more]

Dear Zach,,,,Thank you very much for such valuable information,,,one more question ,,,Is there are many differences between the free version and payable one ?,,,,best regards,,,,kiwan

In regards to the first comment about the program operating very slow, I would guess that either there are so many objects in the file that it is making the program run slow, or hardware on your computer such as your CPU and/or your Memory are not fast enough for the program.  In regards to the CAD to Sketchup, Google removed that option in the…[Read more]

Dears,,,,I am facing problem in sketch up 8,,,in moving cursor ,,,,and very slow,,,to rotate or flipping the models ,,is this problem cause i am using free version ,,,and i can not to import the CAD,s FILES ,,,,,PLZ ADVICE ,,,

LARE Review Study Session – August 27 – Nashville
The Tennessee Chapter ASLA is hosting review sessions for the upcoming LARE exam for sections A, B & D on Saturday, August 27th from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm in Nashville (location to be announced).
The interactive session is taught by Matt Mathes, ASLA and Erik Sweet, RLA.
Both are PPI authors of LARE…[Read more]