Edward Flaherty

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]

Thumbs up, Walter! 🙂

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]

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]

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]

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…
Ed Flaherty

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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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.
By that…[Read more]

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]