Gabino Carballo

ASLA supports Landscape Architects under attack in Brazil
http://elmanifiestodelospaisajistas.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/asla-supports-landscape-architects-under-attack-in-brazil/

Hi,
It has taken a while, but it looks like the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) support Landscape Architects’ Professional Regulation in Brazil.
http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/27686014#!
CLARB have also expressed support for professional regulation in…[Read more]

Hi Robert,
Thank you for your beautiful reply. That is a nice tale to tell about becoming a Landscape Architect.
I agree that Landscape Architecture has many roots in Europe, even if some of the oldest and most fantastic manufactured landscapes ever conceived blossomed in places like the Middle East and China.However, Landscape Architecture as a…[Read more]

Hi all,
As in Spain, it looks like Brazilian Landscape Architects are working tirelessly to achieve full recognition for Landscape Architecture as a profession in Brazil.
Landscape Architects have already access to a number of graduate and postgraduate studies in Brazil, and there are new ones emerging. Sadly, they  lack full professional…[Read more]

It is pretty clear.
I think that we are coming from the same angle because we can see that the people not very happy about this move, about getting a professional license, are the people who show up in magazines and nice pictures with expensive projects that only look good on websites.
I’ll here our latest post, which I think depicts the situation…[Read more]

Jeeezz, so that was my problem all along…

Ok, I can see what you are saying, but I guess that there is a misunderstanding.
Technically, in European English legal speak”regulation” of a profession is simply the set of rules and laws that govern attaining a certain qualification, acquiring some experience in a structured environment and then being able to practice with legal guarantees ie:…[Read more]

As I said, you have a problem.
I told you to shut up because your are calling me a racist.
I will say again, shut up and get working, your country is bankrupt.
As far as I am concerned, there is nothing to defend.
There is either a law that regulates Landscape Architecture as a profession in Portugal or there is not. All the Portuguese Landscape…[Read more]

Can you please copy my racist comments here, so I can see them?
Maybe you haven’t noticed but my surname, Carballo, is the Galician spelling of Carvalho.
My father’s ancestors come from Camba, north of the Portuguese border and they themselves haul from Portugal.
How can I be racist, when I have a considerable amount in Portuguese in me, is beyond…[Read more]

How would you rewrite it?
Landscape Architecture is not regulated, and is therefore outside the professional market.
Architecture and Engineering are regulated and enjoy all the advantages of free market.
Why professional regulation is incompatible with a free market in the light of these events?

I think that you have a problem.

I would say that you have a pretty good deal in the US, compared to other countries, as far as Landscape Architecture is concerned.And yes, FLO made a big difference.
But just last week I read and article in LAM slagging him and saying that he was “holding down the profession”. A bad sign of things to come.
I will be very surprised to find out…[Read more]

There must be a problem with communication that I am not quite understanding here.
Firstly, I am sure that you have saved any number of laws in your hard drive. Fantastic. Quite simply.
The problem is that nobody else seems to have those laws that you have and we would be delighted to have a reference, a number, a date, so we can all find out…[Read more]

But you cannot tell me what law specifically protects Landscape Architecture?
Basically, Portugal rules and Europe is shit, in your opinion. That’s about it.
I am sorry but I am responsible for your inferiority complex.
European Directives are binding, for your information.
Stop making stuff up, please.

Could you please pass me the reference in Portuguese so I can please check the legal reference?
I gave you the links to Laws that do not regulate professions, as far as I can tell.
Can I please know what are you talking about? This article does not imply that Landscape Architecture is regulated.
“Regulation” is a clearly defined legal figure in…[Read more]

You can read some more information about the estate of your profession here:
http://arquitecturapaisagista.blogspot.com.es/
http://www.apap.pt/pages/arquitectura/legislacao/?scrh=606
If you find the law that regulates Landscape Architecture in Portugal, do let me know.

Landscape Architecture is not regulated in Portugal.
If it is, I would like to see the law regulating it. Can you post the specific law please?
You can understand Spanish if you learn Portuguese because the Spanish phonetics are simpler and harder and grammar is also slightly simpler.
If you speak Spanish you will find difficult understanding…[Read more]

I will not accept any information of the grounds of nationality alone.
I already work with a Portuguese Landscape Architect, with over 20 years experience or so.
Why is your opinion better than his?
I will accept a reference for the law you are referring too.
I have no opinion on the matter.
Simply put the link to the law online and have this…[Read more]

About the rest of the comments you have made, they look like opinions that are not underpinned by any actual facts.
The APAP is not a professional “order” because the law allowing it to become one has never been passed. Period. It is not for the APAP to decide it.
It is for the Government to do so.
The EU Parliament decisions are rather…[Read more]

I think that if you take some time to find out about the law in Portugal, you will find that Landscape Architecture is not protected in any way.
It is recognised to a higher degree than in Spain and it enjoys considerable respect, but there is no law that I know of that reserves professional activity to Landscape Architects.
If you do, I would…[Read more]