Ryland Fox

Alan’s look fairly similar to ours.  We always put that they are schematic in nature with the mechanics to be designed by the pool contractor. The we review the pool contractor’s drawings for finishes and sizes.

i second the 75% size rule as well.  seems to work well.

I am not working in the field but I remember seeing ads for Second Life hiring LA’s a few years ago so there maybe someone there.

I wrote this series of blog posts on render maps a couple of years back.  Here is the first one
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial-bump-maps
https://land8.com/profiles/blogs/rendering-tutorial-1
it goes from transparency maps to bump maps to displacement maps though ideally all…[Read more]

I have been going to Archinect for years and never really seen anything objectionable.  They tend to be more negative towards architecture than any other discipline.

They aren’t all monochrome but Peter Walker used to have a linework with watered down colours style that was pretty minimal.  Pretty much just cad linework. Some examples:

Japanese stab binding is pretty nice, I haven’t used it but always plan to.

C.R.E.A.M. – Wu Tang Clan

Friedman was talking about this in the New York Times today

vyonx

Disney world fireworks over the park on new years from on top of one of the hotels.  Looking forward to the Sydney Harbour ones this year.

We got RenderIn, it is $160 a seat I believe and the results are pretty good.  Plus it has real time preview with materials and lights which is nice.

This guys is pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJPuSKIl3Xo

Go to Green and Green’s Gamble house in Pasadena.  Amazing craftmenship plus the visitor centre is Doc’s house from Back to the Future.   The patio is really nice.
 
http://www.gamblehouse.org/

http://www.vyonyx.com/index.php
 
on the right in downloads

I don’t know if it is advertising but self promotion on sites like Landezine can’t hurt.

Buttes-Chaumont Park is really neat looking.tunnels, waterfalls, a suspension bridge

not really, I am in Australia and am considered a landscape architect because I attended an accredited program.  I can get licenced through our professional association but it isn’t necessary.
 
And yet we still have a healthy, creative, and profitable LA industry.

It just seems kind of harsh to be practicing landscape architecture (under a RLA) and have gone to school for landscape architecture  but not be able to refer to yourself as a landscape architect in casual conversation.
 
I understand people being protective of a title they have earned but as your own title says, you are a RLA which you are u…[Read more]