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Isn’t what we’re witnessing now essentially a market rejection of the suburban oriented real estate market?

I think the most viable response to the dilemma of decentralization (suburbia) versus urbanization will be to retrofit suburban communities and continue to develop alternative forms of transportation. I don’t think the personal automobile…[Read more]

I was entertained by James Howard Kuenstler’s books on suburbia and design, though I’m not sure I got much out of them besides cynicism.

I think there are certainly limitations to hand drawing as well.

I am an advocate of the aforementioned examples of why hand-drawing will never die. I think it does allow us a better connection between the intangible concept and physical product. Although, with new and more sophisticated techniques of digital representation coming to fruition and…[Read more]

Ameya Preserve (http://www.ameyapreserve.com/) in Wyoming by Design Workshop is supposed to be a very high end new community based around sustainable concepts, etc.

Design Workshop Aspen has done some other new mountain communities and private residential work here in Colorado. I would check their website.

BlueGreen of Aspen has done some great…[Read more]

I actually think its worth the hundred bucks or so to purchase a decent library online. It’s about the cost of a textbook, if you think about it. Dosch is pretty much the standard for 2d and 3d entourage these days. At CSU we had gigs upon gis of entourage material floating around on hard drives and cd’s. It might not hurt to ask some studio or…[Read more]

I watched ‘landscapers challenge’ on HGTV before I went back to school for Landscape Architecture when I was a landscape designer/contractor and built my own residential work. I stopped watching mostly due to lack of free time and then every place I have lived since about 2006 has not had cable television, so watching HGTV hasn’t really been an…[Read more]

I’d say it is if they could find other ways of using that land in addition to the array, such as a park, but nobody wants to get boiled..

I was under the impression that wind power required significantly more acreage to be effective than solar and could only be feasible in areas with high sustained winds. Ironically, I see small wind farms all along the Front Range here in Colorado, but I swear I’ve never seen a turbine spinning in over seven years.

I actually think the turbines…[Read more]

I think the question is then, is the photovoltaic surface area required equitable to the amount of power generated?

Just speculation, but it seems to make sense if you could affordabley install solar panels on the roof surface of typical suburban homes, but does that method still work with multi level, more dense buildings where the roof surface…[Read more]

I agree that there is certainly some degree detrimental impact in solar energy infrastructure that is probably often overlooked. I did some ‘light’ research on the actual output of a large solar array and found that in addition to the large acreage required, the power output is generally not much.

I was investigating ways to better integrate…[Read more]

I think bashing Mike Lin, or any professional practitioner by name on a public forum is probably misplaced and bad form. I also think it is in bad taste to bash the person bashing the person.

That said, I think Mike Lin is good at what he does, but he is certainly not the only one who does this, and frankly, I wish some professionals looking for…[Read more]

Alex-

Some might disagree that digital representation is inferior and to be used only for ‘support.’

I think it is possible to use digital media as a specific design tool with its own merits. A well done collaged digital perspective can be jaw dropping, completed in less than three or four hours, and totally editable on the fly without starting…[Read more]

jay-

I just wanted to add an update that I will be going back to the basics for a short time this summer. Fresh out of school it seems I’ve forgotten why I got into LA in the first place. There isn’t much work out there just yet, and frankly I’m not really quite ready to commit to office work just yet. I think the last push of senior studios and…[Read more]

Bob-

Really cool work.

On the third aerial, did you use corel to mimic markers. It looks like a mostly digital drawing which you may have used a wacom. Nice composition and color.

How have you marketed yourself for illustration work? This is something I’m interested in doing at least until the market picks back up, but I’m not sure how…[Read more]

4. Wasn’t this just under discussion regarding whether the california LATC should be consolidated under the California architects committee (AIA)?

http://www.nemetschek.net/eval/eval_form.php

Fill out the form and wait for the dload. For some reason the download took forever for me, wish there were a faster way.

Eric-

This is pretty cool. I just downloaded VW Land trial version, so I’ll have to check this out.

The only thing missing would be the ability to run different analyses on the shape data in Landmark. If VW even had the basic ‘surface analysis’ or some of the ‘spatial analyst’ tools that come packaged in Arcmap you’d have yourself one…[Read more]

I’m optimistic, or at least I’m trying to be.

With so many people potentially leaving the profession, someone’s going to have to do the work. I was reading a similar discussion on the affect of the last big recession on the architecture community at archinect. Evidently, there is a noticable gap from senior to entry level professionals across the…[Read more]

Law school, eh?

I’m not sure how the merger effects the higher ups at EDAW. If this trend keeps up I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re all doing landscape architecture as a hobby in the future..