Brandon Reed, CVO, ASLA / Rooftop and Urban Designer / Landscape Architect

“This creative vision includes the ability to see how you can make the architect and the architecture the hero as part of the creative process”… F*** making an architect a hero. We, the collective minds that invent and manipulate space, do it as a team. We, as landscape architects, are hired to create compositions that promote the health, safety, and public welfare of those that use our spaces. To that end, if we follow your first five steps we are now on a well-functioning, communicative team that has an unified vision towards making said space a successful project – no hero needed.

Landscape architects are not beholden to architects and we should make every effort to strengthen our profession instead of promulgating subservience to architecture.

There are some good business development lessons in here, but I would apply it to any client – whether it’s a public agency, developer, architect, planner or civil engineer. I think many LA’s will be put off by #5, which could have easily just been “The Client is the Hero”.

That’s a great idea @Joshua

I would love to hear what 5 things you want from an architect?