Land8: Landscape Architects Network

                               
Drawing with a Good Attitude                    
 
 
Many people feel they are unable to draw or sketch well either due to the lack of talented background or missing proper guided graphic skill. I have spent over 35 years of my life teaching people how to draw well with confidence, often I have seen people walke…[Read more]

Improvement of B/A drawings in just 7 days?

Before: Bad perspective, no gradual value change and lack of details on walls, ceiling and floor.  Requires nicer design with more furniture, bad person that was scaled too short, need more colors like blue, purple, and orange.
After: Good perspective, good details on walls with nice gradual value…[Read more]

Decommissioned military sites competition 

I’ll have to disagree with a part of the group comment, that one about Martha Schwartz. It is perfectly justified what she said about UK’s landscape Architecture and the impossibility of the Landscape Architects from UK to overcome some bad habits. She pointed righteously at back garden culture and I’d top it up with slavery towards public’s c…[Read more]

How is the increasing demand for performance metrics and measures of sustainability for landscape architecture and numerous other rating systems changing the practice? What are the challenges in terms of need for additional research associated with this paradigm and what are the sourced used for research and knowledge? What are most pressing…[Read more]

15 years! How about 8-10

Yes, 8 pm Sunday at the Hilton Bayfront. You should also check out the Land 8 Happy Hour, Tuesday 8 pm at the Analog Bar.

Is that at 8pm on Sunday?

Hi Mark – I’ll be there, and from what I hear, a large number of the current UA students are coming out for the conference.  Should be a good time – hope to see you there.

Anyone going to the UA alumni event at ASLA San Diego?

Does anyone know where I can find HQ real world plant images that include vegetables?  Anyone know a free site for downloading plant images without the background?

HISTPRES
I met with these ladies at the National Trust Conference this past week in Buffalo. A great source for HP positions and they also encouraged LA’s to look at the position also.

LEED GA – is it worth it?

RLA Position

Gardner Museum Fellowship in Landscape Studies

The Louisiana Chapter ASLA is hosting review sessions for LARE exam sections C & E on Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm in Baton Rouge.  Each session is offered at $160 for Section C, and $60 for Section E for ASLA members, or $200 (C) or $100 (E) for non-members. The session cost includes review workbooks for each section…[Read more]

Hi!
I am curious to know if anyone from UGA is going to the USGBC Georgia Chapter Annual Meeting tomorrow morning in Atlanta?  If so, I am willing to carpool.
Here is the information about it.
 
Annual Member Meeting
Directions are attached
 
We’ll See You There!
 
 Friday October 21, 2011 from 8:30am to 10:30am
 
at Trees Atlanta
225 Chest…[Read more]

How to render a sofa with markers

Left Sofa: (Rendered as Designer’s sofa): Outlined sofa lightly with a red or #B pencil, then render each surface of cushions by applying Chartpak Colorless Blender first and use the value sequence of Sunset Pink, Salmon, Deep Salmon, Scarlet and Maroon to achieve a nice Graduate Value Change to White Space. …[Read more]

MEPD student Anna Gore mentioned in article.
 
 

New section of the CED website…check it out!