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Hey Charles, Its good to have you in the group. How do you feel about this narrowing of role? Do you think that if we still had more of a role in related fields that there would be more work currently available for landscape architects? If you want you could start a discussion about it. I think it would be interesting to see what we could learn…[Read more]

What was the name of the site where you can sell your entourage images that you have created?

I’ve been working in this profession for 37 years and have found that as time goes by, landscape architect’s role gets more and more narrow. 30 years ago, I was doing natural resource analysis, coastal management programs and land use plans. Now to do much of anything with natural resources we have to hire biologists, geologists, soils engineers,…[Read more]

Hi folks, it’s me on my lounge in Cairo, but active now in Abu Dhabi.
This is the place to try all this xerophytic plants and other material.
Whenever I come into a new arid area I try to studdy the the vegetation off the beaten tracks. Potential natural vegetation is the best indicator to meet climat and geology. We only (I guess that is the…[Read more]

Sub: Landscape Horticulturist (Designing & Supervision)

I am writing to apply for the suitable position.
I am proud to introduce myself as a Doctoral Degree Holder in the field of Horticultural Science.
The opportunity presented in this profession is very interesting, and I believe that my strong technical experience and education will make me a…[Read more]

Hello- I’m new to the group! Currently our LA firm has been dealing with the recent water restrictions- How do we (as Landscape Architects) get the word out that turf is no longer the San Diego landscape? We are in our 3rd consecutive year of drought and something has to change.

Hey Mark – just saw this group you started. How are things with you these days?

advice on learning to use 3dmax? i am so impressed with the images and would love to play, but am unsure how or where to begin. any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Conference in Dubrovnik: Resocialization-benefits from nature, I put album of photos finally on my folio, so you can see them 🙂 . I find articles send by this group really interesting, bye. Marina

thanks nick for the invite..good idea for our field.

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Do you guys know the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo on the Big Island? I think its an wonderful example for how much you can do w/ native and polynesien plants.
My favorite garden though is Uncle Roberts Hawaiian Garden down in Kalapana. Its open to everybody and its just awesome because it’s so authentic!

Aloha, I’m a landscape architect working on Oahu. Love hearing your experiments on design with native plants

oh man, images of the “week” im looking forward to it…

Tomorrow I will be posting images of the week. so everybody get ready to critique.

Thanks Lee, lets see how many we can get everybody.

Here’s some trees I got a couple years back. They’re even labeled which is nice but due to size constraints I can’t send each individual tree already cut out. Just layer use selective color tool in PS and they come up pretty nice

trees_lee.zip.

July 6 issue of ENR – Cover Story does a great service in fully explaining the contributions of landscape architects, especially in terms of sustainable design and construction. If you have an ENR or ASLA membership, you can read the full article

“Landscape Architecture Puts a New Spin on Natural Systems” Article in Engineering News-Record

Can we get people to upload as many tree cutouts as possible?