Land8 | Edward Flaherty | Activity https://land8.com/members/edwardflaherty/activity/ Activity feed for Edward Flaherty. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:28:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=6.0.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 02b75c9f8f33183f389a425d8115f310 Edward Flaherty's profile was updated https://land8.com/activity/p/66066/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:18:02 +0000 0 c7c26a4b8b1003ab6030c8d72ab20a38 Edward Flaherty started the topic ‘AI’ Era of Landscape Architecture in the forum TECHNOLOGY https://land8.com/forums/topic/ai-era-of-landscape-architecture/ Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:11:02 +0000 In the Artificial Intelligence era of landscape architecture, what we are doing today will be known as old-school.
But that doesn’t define landscape, does it?

]]> 0 4844c14a423f89f5080134538ca090d4 Edward Flaherty posted a new activity comment https://land8.com/shifting-paradigms-collaboration-in-practice-land8x8-video/#comment-5436 Sat, 08 Apr 2023 07:34:29 +0000 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]

In reply to - Madeline Kirschner wrote a new post, Shifting Paradigms: Collaboration in Practice [Video] At the Land8x8 Lightning Talks in Denver, CO, Founder + Principal of Studio Siembra, Magdalena (Maggie) Aravena, […] ]]> 4dc4c9d715814cc21b14a439cae9b439 Edward Flaherty posted an update: What do you think happens day to day with your term-abroad […] https://land8.com/activity/p/65168/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 16:55:32 +0000 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]

]]> 0 7c3447c1cfa0407813a4787fae73b67f Edward Flaherty posted an update: Sipping gin and tonics on a wisteria terrace, overlooking […] https://land8.com/activity/p/65097/ Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:10:17 +0000 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]

]]> 0 54818cc2315d4dcefd424286aa775514 Edward Flaherty's profile was updated https://land8.com/activity/p/65072/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:57:29 +0000 0 97386b8fa8e1d59b6f733fa78da39225 Edward Flaherty posted an update: 2022? Wrote and published a novel about a guy, a student […] https://land8.com/activity/p/65071/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:51:07 +0000 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]

]]> 0 2c091b73e224dc7aaa57647fb5ee235b Edward Flaherty posted a new activity comment https://land8.com/evoking-soul-in-landscape-architecture-land8x8-video/#comment-3546 Sat, 26 Dec 2020 08:49:56 +0000 Thresholds–seeking ourselves and hoping to provide for others–landscape architecture–all the best Christy.

In reply to - Stephanie Roa wrote a new post, Evoking Soul in Landscape Architecture [Video] There has been a trend in landscape architecture to measure the success of a project using research and quantified data. However, […] ]]> 1c75a6f3ed54e854b02b662aa9096a2e Edward Flaherty replied to the topic 5 Landscape Architecture Things in the forum EDUCATION https://land8.com/forums/topic/5-landscape-architecture-things/#post-3558485 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:33:26 +0000 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]

]]> 0 743a0b6a807ebd69456bbeab4513776e Edward Flaherty started the topic 5 Landscape Architecture Things in the forum EDUCATION https://land8.com/forums/topic/5-landscape-architecture-things/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:24:24 +0000 …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]

]]> 0 5b3265c20fcd2f921f0d227f9e808806 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture...Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/working-abroad-entry-level-landscape-architecture-where-do-i-start/#post-151440 Sun, 29 May 2016 05:07:44 +0000 Thumbs up, Walter! 🙂

]]> 0 c2718bfc698454aca92f96fa1b74a43d Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture...Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/working-abroad-entry-level-landscape-architecture-where-do-i-start/#post-151443 Thu, 12 May 2016 06:10:56 +0000 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]

]]> 0 609125a51bd99d57b812d35894e9ec79 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Working Abroad: Entry level Landscape Architecture...Where do I start?? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/working-abroad-entry-level-landscape-architecture-where-do-i-start/#post-151444 Thu, 12 May 2016 06:09:17 +0000 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]

]]> 0 c7d45ba5b997440f81685c999689b796 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Have you worked abroad? Professional practice questions! in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE http://land8.com/forums/topic/have-you-worked-abroad-professional-practice-questions/#post-151786 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:37:55 +0000 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.

]]> 0 cd529771f53142c135c9f3679f0d7da1 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic LARE TESTING HOAX!? in the forum PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE https://land8.com/forums/topic/lare-testing-hoax/#post-176984 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:18:23 +0000 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]

]]> 0 8158f1105daa8f8475310ab8ec6905b7 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic The Artist Dillema in the forum EDUCATION https://land8.com/forums/topic/the-artist-dillema/#post-152646 Fri, 30 May 2014 12:31:10 +0000 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]

]]> 0 ff1b28b98575617558f656c811956bde Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Highway Landscape in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/highway-landscape/#post-153164 Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:05:43 +0000 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]

]]> 0 325b1bdd9994ee86cdd7f4f1962cd5df Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Educational Trailer for Mentoring in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/educational-trailer-for-mentoring/#post-154525 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 06:37:19 +0000 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]

]]> 0 dd2d5550905f08a9287eaffdf43a59d4 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Nerds in the landscape (How does lar respond to a tech culture?) in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/nerds-in-the-landscape-how-does-lar-respond-to-a-tech-culture/page/3/#post-156837 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:04:35 +0000 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

]]> 0 c230b4c91cee151234f73f2d42743c4f Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Writing Britain in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/writing-britain/#post-157546 Mon, 14 May 2012 09:47:44 +0000 Teletubbies…now that is a landscape of good times!
🙂
Landscapes and gardens that make us smile?  How does that work?
🙂

]]> 0 c9e7bc3bc82a0d4c837103813c1e407c Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Thomas Kinkade (RIP) Landscape Painter in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/thomas-kinkade-rip-landscape-painter/#post-157990 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:16:05 +0000 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]

]]> 0 538fa1142ab409772deff1d3d1ee392f Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Thomas Kinkade (RIP) Landscape Painter in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/thomas-kinkade-rip-landscape-painter/#post-157993 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:55:05 +0000 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]

]]> 0 fd287c6b110f97789c1c0de168aa449d Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Thomas Kinkade (RIP) Landscape Painter in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/thomas-kinkade-rip-landscape-painter/#post-158003 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:30:19 +0000 Interesting, the language used to describe his painting…it is about moods…sentimental…I wonder why I rarely see landscape architecture built projects or even non-built projects described by emotional descriptives.  
Do we build without emotion?  Or, do we not know how to design with build in emotion?  Or, does emotion only come in the eye of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 11940fa3cbde31402402b7c46dc79438 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Mediterranean Climate-North Africa and Urban Design in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/mediterranean-climate-north-africa-and-urban-design/#post-158907 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:11:17 +0000 Anecdote time:  I once worked in a climate and country where date palms, Phoenix dactylifera, were almost revered for just what Boilerplate wrote plus the essential fruits, plus the use of all parts of the tree for day to day appendages of life.  
For variety on a project, I suggested using accents of Washingtonia robusta and darn near lost my j…[Read more]

]]> 0 84d8f1d2b5a42ad5a2105270eec3cad5 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Mediterranean Climate-North Africa and Urban Design in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/mediterranean-climate-north-africa-and-urban-design/#post-158908 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:04:31 +0000 You asked, ‘Can’t a complex metric bring about a visceral esthetic?‘  Good question Roland.  
I have not seen any planning metrics that address standards for the five, shall I say, coarse modals of sense perception…sight, taste, touch, feel and smell.  If someone can share experience of ‘code’ that addresses these senses as the basis of qu…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7d8d286e90b9ba30c05f35fef49b7c5 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Whats up with the "Jobs" link in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/whats-up-with-the-jobs-link/#post-158914 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 08:08:38 +0000 Definitely, a job in the landscape is a job.

]]> 0 5978104033442d9c93771da7b023357a Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Swiss Approach to Urban Sprawl Issues in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/swiss-approach-to-urban-sprawl-issues/#post-159636 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:50:04 +0000 A good way for you to follow up yourself on your question would be to use the links provided in my original post. Links for all original researchers are listed and those researchers might be eager to exchange with you on your question.
Edward Flaherty

]]> 0 3b4564a1b58d77b925fa663bfbb8ea34 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Permaculture and Landscape Architecture in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/permaculture-and-landscape-architecture/#post-161752 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:39:29 +0000 Thank you, James, for sharing that Landscape Invocation link…good content.
 
FYI, I have found that the mountain villages in the Bernese Oberlands in Switzerland, demonstrate a very interesting integration of all uses of plants…with limited arable land due to very steep slopes…some valleys and villages have been organizing sustainability…[Read more]

]]> 0 47a72b39af2f122434a95bb9ac41e53e Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Permaculture and Landscape Architecture in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/permaculture-and-landscape-architecture/#post-161753 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:26:04 +0000 Hi Bret,
You wrote, above: “The idea that our overwhelming priority in our work is to make things meet visual standards first has been nagging me since my first year of university.”
 
I understand your concern on that.  Doesn’t that make Landscape Architecture something rather transitory…disposable…a commodity…a fickle piece of fashion w…[Read more]

]]> 0 5871bcedf6525e94ef7767d6cf6e868f Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Permaculture and Landscape Architecture in the forum SUSTAINABILITY & DESIGN https://land8.com/forums/topic/permaculture-and-landscape-architecture/#post-161754 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:20:43 +0000 Hi Roland,
You wrote, above: “We sometimes design without thinking too much about the long term maintenance of a project, for example.”
 
I see that in my work, too.
 
Then the next question is obvious: How can a profession such as Landscape Architecture claim sustainability without a strong contribution in short, medium and long term maintenance?

]]> 0 a6085381a626d23c4ff8b0c627f66449 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic PORTFOLIO - chronological order? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/portfolio-chronological-order/#post-163051 Fri, 06 May 2011 20:04:32 +0000 In these days of digital portfolios…it might be wise to focus your portfolio on:
1) the specific job opportunity and company; and,
2) your own objectives for pursuing the opportunity.
 
Your work that addresses the opportunity requirements most directly should be shown first. This shows respect for the time of the person interviewing you; and…[Read more]

]]> 0 bdf876055b6c9d3ae5dcbd08fe7e9b23 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Is Your Planting Evocative or Provocative? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION https://land8.com/forums/topic/is-your-planting-evocative-or-provocative/#post-165291 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:29:12 +0000 Well, well, well, Thomas…one month and no responses, not one…does that give you a measure of how much people think about the importance of planting design?
I can not really see the difference between evocative and provocative…can you please build them out a little bit more?
Starting point on either one would be healthy plants…wouldn’t it?…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed93401426ee9d117de8352cecbef7d1 Edward Flaherty posted an update in the group Florida Chapter ASLA: The Sunshine State...searching for that perfect orange. https://land8.com/activity/p/22982/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:23:42 +0000 The Sunshine State…searching for that perfect orange.

]]> 0 d9b9e977ed434d178198fbcae23d2baf Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Organic Plants in the forum PLANTS & HORTICULTURE https://land8.com/forums/topic/organic-plants/#post-176560 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:30:27 +0000 Try working through these links for a bit of an historic perspective on ‘organic’ as it relates to plants and the process of growing plants:
http://www.organicgardening.com/
http://www.rodale.com/1,6597,1-101,00.html

Good reading.

]]> 0 a888c4d5b93f6370c2acdad19dca83d3 Edward Flaherty replied to the topic Landscape Architecture Blogs in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION http://land8.com/forums/topic/landscape-architecture-blogs-2/page/2/#post-177282 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:21:04 +0000 I have spent the past two years working in Dubai. During that time I kept a blog for the purpose of asking and searching for: What is the Dubai landscape 2006-2008?

I was able to make about one contribution per month…lots of images…a fair amount of commentary…I posted The Final Entry yesterday. You can find it…[Read more]

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