Jason T. Radice

“If you chose not to decide, you still have made a choice”
-Neal Peart

Trend for Garden Design: What’s on sale and what does the nursury have to move?
 
Trend for Landscape Architects: No longer be a Landscape Architect.

I use a local copy house, like a Kinkos, but with with much better laser equipment and good paper for my portfolio slicks. I don’t mind the white band around the outside as long as its even. I’m lucky to have such a good shop nearby instead of being stuck with just a Kinkos. Even still, their good equipment was broken one day, and they ran a te…[Read more]

First, what kind of technology is the shop using (laser, offset, digital offset, etc) and what is the shop capable of. Most copy/printing places now use high quality laser prints for short run printing. Digital offset is next (if you can find a place that has the machine), and offset is for when you are looking for several hundred to thousands of…[Read more]

Many of the OLDEST and BEST programs ARE state schools (I know, I went to one). I was stating that younger and starter programs have fewer alums high up in the work force and may not have the best reputation, or any reputation for that matter…deserved or not. It is certainly not the “old boys” network anymore. By the prospective employer hiring…[Read more]

The name can carry a lot of weight and open a lot of doors for you. Obviously, the older more established schools have LOTS of alums in positions of power that are always happy to have another alum on board, and at times seek them out. Also, there are very dicernable differences in programs. All accredited colleges offer a fairly universal set o…[Read more]

The poinf of harvesting is to use that water for another purpose, be it irrigation or for use as grey water for toilets and such. You can’t do that with infiltration. In water sensitive areas, the water you may collect for your use is akin to hoarding and can be crucial for the public water supply and for hydro because it rains so infrequently. I…[Read more]

With all the vapors eminating from fresh bluelines (ammonia), AD markers, sharpies, and spray adhesive, I’m sure I’ve lost chunks of my expensive education.
   

Ah yes, rendering parties. I’ve done way to many of those at the last minute. They became almost intolerable with so many fresh Chartpack AD markers open in a small space. Then we switched to Prismas and you could legally drive home again afterwards.  

Something that I have noticed not to unsimilar to your point is the emphasis on the digital tools rather than the outcome. Understand that the market is requesting students that are proficient in CAD and 3D work right out of the gate, but this proficiency often comes at the cost of learning sound and practical design. They are teaching the tools,…[Read more]

I used to do this type of work back in the day. Its a “rollercoaster” industry with cyclical periods of feast or famine, much more so than the rest of the design world. Needless to say, there is high turnover. I was an LA who did the master planning and thematic design, graphic artists to do the renderings, architects did the structure, and…[Read more]

Consider the source. He’s a freakin’ restaurant critic. And for the NYT.
 
Yea. I really take seriously an opinion on something as complex as free market economics from a dude who used to rate macaroni for a living.

The inorganic mulch has greater porosity so it allows for more weed growth unless it is very deep. As well, the inorganic mulch would tend sink into the muddy soil underneath when it rains without the layer of weed block or geotextile to keep it separate from the soil. You can place weedblock under organic mulch. Its done here all the time.

A masters in LA seems to almost be a prerequisite for even entry level jobs in this economy.
 

You are right about MHz speeds not really being a good equal comparison, but my point is still valid. Try to get the fastest MHz speed for whatever brand you want to purchase for the very reason that that the software does not access more than one  or two cores simultaneously unless rendering. And even then, ti does not utilize them all…[Read more]

Precisions are the ‘workstation’ class for Dell. They had upgraded motherboards and better memory and HDDs.
 
Sweet rig and a good price. I looked a building a machine a while back (2 years) and couldn’t even touch the price of buying one whole. I ended up buying an HP refurb. It needs some upgrades, but not many and it won’t cost a tonne when…[Read more]

The Processor is only a small part of the equasion. What to look for in either machine is a quad core (AMD Athlon II /Phenom II or Intel i5/i7). You should try to squeeze as much ram as possible in there, and fast ram at that (DDR5). You also need a separate graphics card with its own memory with at least 1 gig of RAM and a fast chip (I haven’t…[Read more]

I commend the AIA on how they have acknowledged, tracked, reported on, and tried to help with the recession. I think they have done all that they can to keep their members and non-members alike very informed on just what is going on the AEC industry. Every month, they release an easy to follow and accurate set of statistics in the form of the…[Read more]

This is a great set. I have been using them since R13. I have a bunch of others on CD-ROM but I find the Unilock set to be pretty comprehensive.

I agree with the overdone “literal” narrative of the DC memorial, which seem to be the way of the memorials built after the abstract Vietnam memorial. Thats also why I said it was too big. There is no one large tree, as you have mentioned as it is placed in the grove of Japanese Cherry Trees along the Tidal Basin. The one huge tree I think you are…[Read more]