ernie garcia

ernie garcia replied to the topic Mainstream Hollywood Movies Portraying Landscape Architects? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 12 years, 11 months ago

in the pilot episode of “angel,” one of the talent agents claims to be dating a landscape architect.

ernie garcia replied to the topic Why designers are afraid of showing hand sketches to their clients? in the forum GRAPHICS 13 years, 1 month ago

I think a good deal of us already out of school are so ingrained in our CAD programs that we forget (or never learned) how to draw by hand. After I was laid off from a company that did little to no hand drawing (unless I was asked to draw a perspective), I went back to doing my residential work by hand.
Here sketchup works as a blessing and a cu…[Read more]

ernie garcia replied to the topic Help! Looking for theoretical info about using a "Big Idea" to start the design process and LA's that use it. in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 13 years, 2 months ago

There is a book called “From Concept to Form in Landscape Design” by Grant W. Reid that may help a bit. The first 10 pages or so discuss methods of the design process and essentially how a concept is evolved into something that you can take to design documents. The rest of the book discusses pretty basic stuff like formal geometric versus na…[Read more]

ernie garcia replied to the topic Autocad 2011 – Where do I start? in the forum TECHNOLOGY 13 years, 2 months ago

I had similar problems transitioning to CAD 2011 from 2006 or 2007, whichever release altered the print menus.

We had a CAD class at A&M (many moons ago) that was not very useful. At the time, it was an elective and not a requirement. If you work in anything that is not residential, it is essential. Residential design/build appears to be the…[Read more]

ernie garcia replied to the topic Why do we make built elements brown all the time? in the forum GENERAL DISCUSSION 13 years, 3 months ago

if you made them blue, planes would hit them.