David Cristiani

Read the posts on this forum. It is pretty clear. It has been quieter lately, but if you look for the threads with the highest numbers of posts, I think you might find some of that bitterness there.

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There is a difference between selling out and being advocates for the people we work for. Every time I bring this up,the same thing usually happens. People who don’t want to hear it set up an image that you either stick with the extreme image or you are a sell out. We all do the best we can to implement good environmental practices.…[Read more]

All of this, the negativity toward ASLA, the disappointment of not getting internships, and how LAs are getting beat down by the economy is all related to the same thing. That is that ASLA and CLARB have created an image of what landscape architecture is that is based on appealing to recruiting rather than developing people to fill needs in the m…[Read more]

Having the capability of hand rendering is not the same as relying on it all of the time. I am not a hand renderer, but if I had the skill set, there would be times when I’d apply it and times when I would not. …. but it would be great to have the option.

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Really?

How do we measure it? Supposedly 21% of us are self employed, 6% work for government, and 51% for  “architectural, engineering, and related services”. Where the other 22% are seems a mystery.
 
Self employed people don’t show up in the unemployment line very often. They just tend to work a whole lot less and sometimes subsidize with a second jo…[Read more]

Cheech Marin is in it as the father-in-law. Perhaps the great actor that was referenced. I’m disappointed that Cheech is not the LA in the show. Like Katharine, I would prefer an LA prototype that I can personally relate to. 

Start by looking at governments and leaders who have done such. I don’t understand why you think a park pavillion is an “object of power”.
 
Think about the pyramids as self tributes to the Pharohs, think about the giant Hammer & Sickle sculptures all across the former Soviet Union as a symbol of power of the government, sculptures of Saddam…[Read more]

All in good fun. You probably heard the same report in the backround on the radio and it triggered a subconscious response. Or it comes from seeing “Famous Potatoes” on the license plates every day. Weird that they add the “e” when it goes plural.

Looks like a flashback to Idaho 1988 with that Dan Quayle spelling of potato. … I met him in the state house there. …Weird, no kidding, he just popped up on my tv right now. Freaky coincidence!

Some would say that landscape architects are getting ……
 
 
…. by architects.
 
I, for one, don’t have a problem with landscapes being created by others. You have to have dark in order to see the light.

If landscape is compared to sex than it is likely that there are different orientations, some fetishes, ….. and some perversions with the bottom line being that pleasure is the driving force.
 
I think it has similarities including intolerance when it does not match our own inclinations.

Get ready for that new image and public perception that we’ve all been longing for!

Context vs. Scenario
 
If the context does not actually match, some designers program the observers with a story line in order to create a scenario in which the building fits.
 
You  can look at it as a sham or you might be the type that is intrigued by the whole thing and think it is great. … you know, the Martha Swartz bagels and such, or the…[Read more]

LARE is very hard to pass for the same reason that landscape architecture is such an odd design field. The problem is not the test. The problem is that landscape architect is a blend of left brain and right brain while most people are wired one way or the other.
We all want to make the arguement that only landscape architecture are qualified to…[Read more]

Different designers get inspiration from different sources. Sometimes they are practical, sometimes philosophic, sometimes metaphoric, and sometimes a bunch of BS to justify something they just plain wanted to do. It matters not which design profession. That diversity is a great thing because it offers choices to the real people behind the project…[Read more]

On the lower right of your screen you should have buttons … “snap, grid. ortho, osnap, dyn, lwt, …”. “LWT” activates or de-activates “lineweights”. If you “right click” you will be offered a settings option. Click on that and there is the lineweight AND a box to check or uncheck called “display settings”. I’m unsure if this is the problem or…[Read more]

I’m more concerned about what is behind me when it comes to comfort on a public bench. I don’t think I’m alone on that.

The first thing that you’ll have to understand about design/build is that pricing is not standard. You don’t command the same price that someone else does because you are in the same profession and they don’t get paid based on your ability either.
 
If you are starting out in design/build, the first thing you need to worry about is making a…[Read more]

We are all in different places in our careers. One thing that does not change is the reason that someone hires a designer. It is to remove the doubt from the outcome of the project. As the value of removing that doubt increases the willingness to pay for design increases. Scrutiny of the potential designer increases with that value as well.
 
It…[Read more]