Peter Graves

I would recommend squarespace or cargocollective. Both paid services but so worth it. With squarespace you get your own domain name as well so it’s a little more professional. Stay away from anything that isn’t custom domain name, like behance.net/yourname or cargocollective/yourname. Just shows you haven’tput much effort into it, even if that isn’t true. 

In my experience talking with my coworkers and classmates, the depicted total debt load is not far off from the norm. I would say a standard debt amount for just the MLA could be anywhere from 20-40K, and you can almost double that for a BLA. The issue isn’t the cost of tuition, as many grad students are getting a break on tuition, but all of the…[Read more]

yup, It very much depends on the firm, worldwide. The idea of working longer hours for less pay has been around for a long time in the design professions and is unlikely to let up anytime soon. I have worked for firms in China and the U.S. that expect crazy hours, even most weekends.
I would say the majority of landscape architecture firms…[Read more]

firm called Hartness Vision does excellent landscape viz work but may be pricey

great input….good to hear from actual interviews that went well.

Hey Laura,

Thanks for the link! Yeah, that’s all I have been able to figure out- DesignIntelligence’s top 10. But I want like top 25 or 50, so all the schools I applied to will appear on the list, hopefully, so I can rank them accordingly.

I have applied to MLA programs at:

-LSU (accepted)
-Kansas State (awaiting)
-Texas A&M…[Read more]