nca

high 40’s is doing really well in colorado. That said, you should ask for what you think you are truly worth. If they want you, they already have a figure in mind.

In my limited and humble experience in the professional world, less ‘sustainable’ projects in general are what have been keeping us afloat. McDonalds, Drive-thru Coffee, Taco Shops, Gas Stations, and even…Oil and Gas Drilling.
 
I have worked on a few site plans for oil/gas as well as a site plan for ‘sustainable energy uses’ ie PV/Solar, but…[Read more]

50’s probably isn’t going to happen, but I hope it does!
 
In my experience in the west 35-45 is a more reasonable range. I would say someone with your experience and background in colorado would be looking at mid to high 30’s unfortunately. There are so many talented people here willing to work for whatever.
 
In my experience, big firms tend t…[Read more]

I read the book by architect Alan Lapidus, who became most notorious for world-class hotel design. His father designed Fountainbleu hotel in Miami. He mentioned several times in his book where he owned a firm and went without pay to protect and retain employees. He goes on at great length about the reasoning behind this beyond the sense of loyalty…[Read more]

Definitely!
 
If you need a place to crash let me know. We have basic accomodations, but friends always welcome!
 
I’ll send you my cell number.

Hey Mike,
 
We actually moved up to Aspen so we are doing the aspen thing this year. We have a place just down the road a piece with plenty of couch space if you’re interested in shredding some RFV pow?

I’m not ready to get off the elevator quite yet. 🙂

I think when you get to that point it’s time to start thinking about opening your own practice. There are a lot of members here who will say that you need several more decades of experience, but I don’t necessarily agree.
 
If you are confident that you can offer equal or better service at equal or lesser cost, then why not hang a shingle? It’s…[Read more]

easy–they make it rain. if not, then I dont know.
getting work done comes in a distant second to getting work.

I think you could argue that a lot of the new grads and junior levels have disproportionately far greater technical capability than design and construction knowledge. Then again, I tend to agree with nr. There are just as many mid-senior levels out there that can’t do either very well.

http://www.m-color.com/
 
 
There used to be a program called ‘MColor’ that did all this for you. EDAW used it at one point.
I prefer rendering in Adobe software.

I would say that many of the younger job seekers have the advantage in that they tend to have more technical capability, cheaper, and more mobile, right? Along with a sense of idealistic entitlement and overt pessimism, gen x and y are doing just fine. People over 40 grew up in the Reagan error under the ‘greed is good’ mantra and have a whole…[Read more]

I’ve always been able to get work done in a reasonable 8-9 hour day. I’ve been working +/- 40 hours/week for the last three employers. I know other people at other offices around me are working 60 hours plus.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with going home at the end of the day.

I hope more schools/LAAB follow the NAAB/NCARB 3+2 model.

escher-esque
designed for the undesirable potential (homeless sleeping, skateboarder-proof)
pipes?

1. know what a landscape architect does.
2. get really good at doing landscape architecture.
3. smell good.

My totally blind interpretation of ‘landscape urbanism’ is the integration of ecological systems and natural features in the design and planning of communties–letting landscape drive the organization of habitable space, both public and private.

I might argue that this is precisely what landscape architects have been trying to do for…[Read more]

Combing over the ASLA job board through the past few months postings might give some indication as to the number of opportunites, etc.

How is any one person supposed to know precisely how many job opportunities there are in one place versus the other, which happens to be 3000 miles away? Even if you found someone whom has lived in both places in…[Read more]

Very well written Tom.

‘grass pave streets’ ..hmm.