Doug Prouty

  • Mark,
    There is a website with an irrigation tutorial created by a landscape architect. It is a good overall primer for understanding the fundamentals of irrigation design. I’ve read through parts of it and find it easy to follow. Jess Stryker, the LA who wrote it, is also very humorous throughout making the subject a bit more engaging. Go to…[Read more]

  • Hi Elif,
    Now this is an interesting discussion, and I agree with a lot of what Michelle has to say, and I would like to add some of my own comments just as soon as I have time , perhaps over the week-end. Greetings from Ireland.
    Hugh

  • Elif,
    Not all well healed clients speak the language of art or architecture.
    If you use stories to relate your design charrettes then you have to speak to them in a language that they understand.
    If your client is a doctor use medical metaphors. In essence you are meeting your client at a level that they feel comfortable and knowledgeable in.

    In…[Read more]

  • Mark,
    Are you looking to get into designing irrigation systems? If so, I would recommend taking a class that is taught by the Irrigation Association, or a local community college.

  • Hello, I’m looking for some education advice. How important is it to take an irrigation course? The LA program I’m in doesn’t offer anything regarding irrigation.

  • Thank you very much Chris. I probably share a common problem with other Landscape Architects. Hopefully in time, it will change!
    Greetings from Istanbul!

  • Thanks for the suggestion.
    I also prepare images and perspectives. What I wanted to ask was: Generally the client doesn’t know what they want and when you come up with new ideas rather than the usual concepts, they don’t understand it. Therefore I develop a story for them. For example, I say ” It’s a Mondrian Garden and the design structure is ……[Read more]

  • Elif,
    I hope I understand your question, here’s goes. When I present a project to a client I bring pictures of plants and I try and draw quick perspesctives or elevations of the job. A lot of people can not visualize a plan view into a real life project. They have not had the training we have and don’t look at plans as we do. When I go to their…[Read more]

  • I have a question!
    Each time I prepare a project, I write a story for it. I try to present it telling this strory. I don’t simply say “Here a group of shrubs you like and some other here!”
    My clients are quite high level people but I don’t know why they don’t understand much when I try to give an identity to the design I prepare for them.
    I would…[Read more]

  • Hello Chris,
    In regards to your question about marketing at a home or trade show, I have some experience in this realm.
    20 years ago I designed and installed a small intimate garden exhibit at the San Francisco Garden Show. I had just recently moved to the Bay area and wanted to open my own design practice.
    The show was a success for me.
    After 5…[Read more]

  • Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Barlow…hmmmmmmm sweeping statement, but none the less there is some merit in what you say, but surely it is not simply an american[USA] problem. I guess it depends on whose work you are looking at, and at what stage they are at in their careers. It takes time to develop individuality.

  • barlow posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

    Dear Brandon and others;
    Why are all american sketches the same and why are all american designs the same? It’s like copy – paste.

  • mohd yusri mohd yusof posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

    hi justin…why dont you look at landscape park duisburg nord in german…maybe it will help you for your case study

  • Justin Roger Burns posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

    i am a landscape architecture student working on my senior project, which is a brownfield site ( old glass manufacture), and curious to see if any one had unique design, mitigation techniques and or a case study or to i should look in to.

  • Hugh Ryan posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 11 months ago

    Nice group. I look forward to sharing in discussion

  • Joe Beck, RLA posted an update in the group Group logo of GraphicsGraphics 15 years, 11 months ago

    I prefer generation hand drawn perspectives in pencil, then overlay with white trash using Pentel Sign Pen for line work and Chart Pak for color.

  • Ryland Fox posted an update in the group Group logo of GraphicsGraphics 15 years, 11 months ago

    I like Copic Markers

  • mohd yusri mohd yusof posted an update in the group Group logo of DESIGNDESIGN 15 years, 12 months ago

    WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT SITE SPECIFIC DESIGN…..

  • NAQI IS MY FRIEND…AND HE REALLY TALENTED IN WATERCOLOR TECHNIQUE…

  • ahmad naqiuddin posted an update in the group Group logo of GraphicsGraphics 15 years, 12 months ago

    i luv water color the most.i can do marker too. im more towards hand randered for originality and naturalistic

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