Nick Schmidt AICP, PMP

My land8 profile has a link to my LinkedIn page. My LinkedIn page has a link to my personal website. Perhaps you should do a little more homework on me and my personal experience (all of which is described in detail) before attacking my initial post.

I’m not a landscape architect and I don’t have a landscape architect license. I don’t have a BLA or an MLA. Who the hell cares?

As a planner I did landscape plan reviews for several municipalities a decade ago (and I started at age 24). I remember at least 2 or 3 landscape architects who ran independent practices. Their work was filled with…[Read more]

nickrschmidt.com.

There are about 40 projects on there for your viewing and critiques. I have a much larger project catalog of 100-150 projects that are not on the internet but they are carefully documented and explained and are kept as files of record.

As for my work history:
I have worked for 5 different employers since 2005, not 9. I was…[Read more]

Why are there some older landscape architects not drawing with a scale? Not drawing to design regulations? Not drawing with regards to topography?

Why are the clients still going to these firms, and why do I have to spend countless hours cleaning up the designs?

I am planner who designs subdivisions but I have worked alongside LAs for 15 years.…[Read more]