Gabino Carballo

http://www.hortweek.com/news/908240/Landscape-Institute-members-emasculated-says-former-archivist-call-elections-overhaul/

WE HAVE 20!

20 requisitioners is the minimum required for the LI to have to call an egm! There will be more coming in I have no doubt!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_Institute#History_of_the_Landscape_Institute

http://www.landscapejuice.com/2009/05/landscape-institute-extraordinary-general-meeting.html

Did you park it near the Landscape Institute?

Time for the Dog to wag the Tail –

“If your majesty will not hear words, we must come to cannon and see if you will hear them” (…) “Little man (…) Go home and be quiet!”

After a not so long last, Members of the Landscape Institute have decided that enough is enough. We have had a long running farce at our own house, it has been a laugh, but…[Read more]

DO go to Versailles and if you get the chance, visit Vaux-le-Vicomte, the original source of inspiration for the former. Smaller scale but cleverer design all the way through.

Yeap, they are “evolving”.

They were little but a shell for property development layout creation, and now they have become a branch of what is a technical support provider, AECOM.

Which means that they sell professionally qualified labour at affordable rates.

Welcome to the endo of the independent professional, in not a distant future, you will…[Read more]

And their reply!

http://www.adrive.com/public/9d9d44e2c1d09c43d9f479eee91017605950f1bd6c43ca8389dfe853a2a5cc94.html

I have now written to the President of the Landscape Institute to demmand a reply. This is my message:

Dear Mr Williams,

It has been a month now since I sent you a letter asking a number of questions. Most of them were quite straight forward and easy to reply. In any event, none of them warrant such a long time for an answer.

Given your silence…[Read more]

Jay,

It means that I am maximizing some of my strenghts in the field of LA to become a Project Manager. I already do a fair amount of work not entirely related to Landscape Design. I may stay within the profession, but I have already been involved with Building Construction and Engineering, and I am also looking at other fields, such as…[Read more]

Jay,

I am retraining as a Project Manager, for different reasons, but I find that there are lots of tools that can be transferred to Landscape Architecture and put to good use. If you have the time, try and develop some skills that way. You may be able to find your way to other industries that way and also strengthen your position in Landscape…[Read more]

This is quite a widespread malaise coming to the surface now. Check this out for more of the same in the UK:

http://www.landscapejuice.com/2009/01/is-the-landscape-institute-finished.html#comment-6a00d8345192c169e201156f2ef90f970c

http://www.landscapejuice.com/2009/01/the-apl-shuts-the-barn-door-after-the-horse-has-bolted.html

A complete joke,…[Read more]

Well, their atitude has been pretty much the same: they have sacked (rather unfairly) people with on little pay and have kept on board all the useless fat cats, that are to blame for the general rip-off that us members have suffered.

I have seen fome financail forecasts and it is more of the same, they are just not reducing enough expenditure…[Read more]

Guy,

the difference is that in the last 30 years we have been fed the notion that nothing stands on the way of fat profits,

We have swept aside ethics and professional criteria to make way for marketing clap trap and ponzi schemes run by clever individuals that laugh at people that needs to work for a living.

Look at the US now: a capitalist…[Read more]

I am aware of some fairly quaint notions in the US regarding the UK. Those maust not be mistaken with facts.

I am not debating any academic matters. I am informing on the state of the profession and its institutions in the UK, according to the information available to me, as well as my own experience.

The academic world either matches the…[Read more]

“You asked a simple question and deserve answers that stay on topic” Thank you for this, Tim.

Since when the reality of the profession in any one country is not “on topic” to a prospective student? Since it may affect the earnings of an opportunistic few reaping in academic fees? You say you teach something? What exactly? Banking?

I am astounded…[Read more]

There is no political debate whatsoever, going. This is a point of principle and ethics.

Prospective students wishing to study to the UK must be awre of the issues surrounding thier education, which will be considerably onerous in financial and personal terms, as I found out at my own expense.

Kate is entitled to know the facts before she…[Read more]

You should not be so proud Tim.

The Iwanttobealandscapearchitect move is a largely failed exercise with little grounding on landscape architects needs.

It amounts tolittle more than a cynical recruitment exercise designed to provide ever more cheap labour for large practices.

Suffice to say that the knee jerk reaction from the LI in the face of…[Read more]

Hi Kate,

Right now, I would not recommend trainning in the UK in the field of LA.

The Landscape Institute, the professional body that represents LA’s is virtually bankrupt in rather disturbing circumstances. Moreover, a few years ago, Jasdon Prior of EDAW apparently blamed certain shortcomings of British Landscape Architecture on the excessive…[Read more]