Bob Luther

We should all have a basic understanding of history from our university education, a requirement for graduation was a senior level class at Cal Poly, I am with everyone else in saying that the LARE is not to prove knowledge of Landscape Architecture, it is to certify that we know not to run with scissors (health, safety, and wellness) by know ing…[Read more]

so would you say you wasted you time doing the boards, shouldn’t you have just done the hand graphics to begin with if that was what impressed them? I again feel that it is not hand vs computer, it is whatever you and your talents can convey the message most effectively.

How can you ask questions about history? I love history but do not see how to prove your knowledge of the past will be used in future works (lee’s health safety and wellness comment). If you ask a bunch of multiple choice questions then you are testing memorization, not theory or implementation, and if you ask in an essay from then you are pitting…[Read more]

I had a project that I was working on the landscape renderings and the architect was working with a renderer on the interior images, the images for the interior were incredible and nearly photo-real, the problem was the design review committee started looking at the wall sconces, and the fabric on the seats rather than the size and shape of the…[Read more]

Hand drawing is defiantly an art form in our community that is dying a slow death

I like deans approach, follow the bread crumbs to find the power behind the project and then see where your latitude and power is located.

Chris you are in the world of Land8, I knew you would be the guy to get in touch with.

I understand your pain!

does it have to be sketchup to out put the final information? could you make the map and then nam and color thefaces and then input the square footage into excell to do the computations via formulas? this way you print out the map with square footage and then you enter the square footage into the spreadsheet and it would pop the info out. just a…[Read more]

look into the cost estimating functions of LandFX. video tutorial page linked below look at the cost estimating video.
http://www.landfx.com/videos.php
Bob

you could easily make a matrix in excel to calculate all of the hour and make a simple projection but I am assuming that you would like to have the digital plan and then tag that plan and get an instant estimate of time, cost, labor etc. so if I understand you correctly you will bring in the Google earth image into SketchUp and then create faces…[Read more]

what are you trying to do, what kind of take offs are you doing? what programs are you using AutoCAD 2010 & Sketchup Pro 7? Maybe there is something that I can help you find, if possible please discribe your model and your takes offs.

go to http://www.sketchucation.com it is a forumn with the greatest wealth of talent and the best ruby script writers in the workl. free to register and the people there are incredibly helpful, many of the things you are probibly think of are already availible or you can find people who love a challenge and love to write new scripts (look fo chris…[Read more]

the interesting thing about the grad program at pomona is that you do your first year of grad school with the third year undergrads (makes for an interesting dynamic) this gives you great exposure to the hands-on aspects of the profession, I got a second BS because I wanted the real world hands-on stuff, and the undergrad program was a much better…[Read more]

I like these comments, i made me think back to comming out of school and getting my first job… ahh the thrill of design, I can design anything, let me at ’em…. sadly the first task I had was to do one color-up and then to write and file memos for the senior project,manager then I moved up to editing details, and so on. we all expect to do…[Read more]

as complex as the topic is comes down to one issue, money. If you have someone who is not performing to the expectations of the team then you loose effeciency, if you can hire someone who brings in a needed skill set and adds effeciency then they are the person to hire, they add the potential to add money to the firm (if tghe work is there), and…[Read more]

I am looking at a general topic… what is your experience with dealing with other disciplines in a team attmosphere? How have you interacted with clients? Can you promote enviromental / sustainable issues if you are on the lower rungs of the totem pole? Are you more often the lead agent in the the team?

I have sat in a meeting with clients (landscape architects) and a laptop and listen to them talk, and as they talked I have built the model (in Sketchup), then as they saw it next to a human figure and a vehicle they could change the scale of items in the model in real time, granted the models were gates, signage, monuments, walls, and giant urns,…[Read more]

Did Berkely get it’s accredidation back, I know around 2000 they were having some issues with accredidation… Pomona is unique in that the department of environmental design has a LA department, Architecture department, Urban Planning department, Graphic Arts, and a cutting edge sustainability program (John T Lyle Center), so you would be able to…[Read more]