@edwardflaherty
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Edward Flaherty commented on the post, Shifting Paradigms: Collaboration in Practice [Video] 1 year, 6 months ago
Shift the paradigms, rename the tropes all you want. People walk the landscape. Plants grow in the landscape. Kind of simple–the basics. Please do not confuse the basics.
Getting the LA Degree
In order to graduate with a degree in Landscape Architecture, CJ had to complete a term-abroad design study. That was the story in Tangier…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty posted an update 1 year, 8 months ago
What do you think happens day to day with your term-abroad students? Check this out–student on the way for his term-abroad design study in Morocco, passes six days in Spain–the difference between a slide lecture and real life.
SIX DAYS IN SPAIN
This sequel becomes the Tangier Gardens prequel. Three Vella episodes tell the entire story. Please…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty posted an update 1 year, 9 months ago
Sipping gin and tonics on a wisteria terrace, overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar, two landscape architects discuss Lawrence Halprin’s culturally deep, classic book on design theory, RSVP Cycles. Their discussion ranges from the Garden of the Hesperides to the strange cultural collisions between Africa and the Western world.
Read the entire 3…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty's profile was updated 1 year, 9 months ago
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Edward Flaherty posted an update 1 year, 9 months ago
2022? Wrote and published a novel about a guy, a student majoring in landscape architecture. He had to do a term-abroad design study. He chose Morocco–on the Med( sun and sandy beaches) and exotic pedestrian markets (souks) and towns (medinas). He focussed on the northwestern part of the country and lived in Tangier for 6 months. The book is…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty commented on the post, Evoking Soul in Landscape Architecture [Video] 3 years, 10 months ago
Thresholds–seeking ourselves and hoping to provide for others–landscape architecture–all the best Christy.
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic 5 Landscape Architecture Things in the forum EDUCATION 4 years, 11 months ago
I’d like to add the following as context to my original post.
In the 50+ years I have been happily involved in landscape architecture education and landscape architecture practice across the USA and around the world, I have seen that our profession is very heavily design oriented–if I may share my opinion–even lopsided with design often pushed…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty started the topic 5 Landscape Architecture Things in the forum EDUCATION 4 years, 11 months ago
…I wish they had taught me at university. Maybe you can suggest others?
1.All the places where underground utilities are accessed through the landscape surface with requirements and flexibility for placement.
2.The line items most likely to be big profit items for contractors in unit price landscape construction contracts.
3.How to write me…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture…Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 8 years, 5 months ago
Thumbs up, Walter! 🙂
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture…Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 8 years, 5 months ago
1. Travel for fun? Look online for regions where landscape offices are so busy all they need are warm bodies for production. Of course you need to know how to produce; or,
2. Practice for a career–take on the austerity and practice in your home state to get licensed/registered before you hit the road. Registered/licensed in the USA opens doors…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture…Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 8 years, 5 months ago
Break it out like this:
Either,
1. Travel for fun? Look online for regions where landscape offices are so busy all they need are warm bodies for production. Of course you need to know how to produce; or,
2. Practice for a career–take on the austerity and practice in your home state to get licensed/registered before you hit the road.…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Have you worked abroad? Professional practice questions! in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 8 years, 10 months ago
Please bring me up to date on what you needed then and what you need now. Please do it via this address: eflaherty at mac dot com. Thank you and kind regards.
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic LARE TESTING HOAX!? in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 9 years, 11 months ago
Nothing personal here to anyone who has failed any section of the test. Please re-read my first sentence. Again.
There is another side to a fail and that is that either a person’s own preparation or that person’s education did not come close to addressing the basics required for practicing landscape architecture. Look hard at yourself and how y…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty replied to the topic The Artist Dillema in the forum EDUCATION 10 years, 5 months ago
Henry is helping you, Alissa, to understand that landscape architecture design does not occur only in your mind, on your drawing board or in your contract documents.
It actually fulfills itself in the construction and following maintenance. If these do not interest you, then there is no question of sustainability, there is no future for you in…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Highway Landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 10 years, 8 months ago
Please consider the following regarding the planting along new highways:
First and foremost–repair the landscape that existed before the surface was ripped open. Doesn’t that make sense? It does especially if the original condition is ‘natural’.
Second–do not attempt to distract the drivers with detailed fluffiness. Driving is dan…[Read more] -
Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Educational Trailer for Mentoring in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 11 years, 3 months ago
I hear you, Trace One…when I went to school, the stuff they presented about project process, project management, construction management was the driest, least interesting.
When I actually starting doing that work, I found it dynamic and challenging. It is that part of our work upon which I focus The 23 Club story.
…oh, and there is some humor…[Read more]
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Nerds in the landscape (How does lar respond to a tech culture?) in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 3 months ago
In our human world experience, there are two: shelter and non shelter (in the largest sense, the landscape).
Shelter and non shelter are connected by landscape architecture and communications technology.
I’ve just lost my train of thought…
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Writing Britain in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 5 months ago
Teletubbies…now that is a landscape of good times!
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Landscapes and gardens that make us smile? How does that work?
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Thomas Kinkade (RIP) Landscape Painter in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 6 months ago
Tension found in the juxtaposition of peace and threat…thanks for sharing that observation, BP.
Now if we turn that into a design challenge for how to bring drama and tension into design as a sustainable emotional experience in the garden and landscape…interesting mental exercise; but I don’t think it works in the actual building of it.
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Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Thomas Kinkade (RIP) Landscape Painter in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 7 months ago
I really was looking at the idea of emotional content in designed and built landscapes and gardens. Kinkade’s work draws emotional responses…perhaps he aimed to achieve an emotional content in his work.
For me the issue was not whether his work was good or not. Rather how does a landscape architect design and build to get emotional inv…[Read more] - Load More