Steve Bartley

Well last one of the night for me 21.00hrs in UK…..you sound like you got it all well under control there Bob and a lot of jargon I am not used to but I think there is a definitive split developed where you work in relation to which era you come from, yes graduates are pretty fast and slick at the visuals and that is great if you can source them…[Read more]

You are spot on with that spatial awareness Ben and I always thought and imagined things like that before 3D although woke up to a few nightmares also but possesed the mean traditional graphic skills to bail me out……I am into large scale Sculpture now going back to my Fine Art roots and that is so inspiring when you have to make your artwork…[Read more]

Well I took my vacation already Lee but it all depends on how you have your business stacked anyway I started out in that era of hand drawn plans and made the jump to CAD because Design is what I am all about while ‘my principals’ friends over the years alike chose to take the management route as they were not passionate about carrying on as a…[Read more]

I think you are right Amy the problem is at Principal level because they came from the era of the hand-drawn plan on parchment and they were never any good at it and became management!!…………..very good we nailed that one well and truly!!

I dont mind doing the graphic stuff but you get pulled so much in that direction the business of landscape design gets taken out of context………like moving from the creative stroke to the business of quantifying raw materials in a Bill of Quantities or a Clerk of Works role, I think thats expected and part of what you are trained…[Read more]

I dont know about anybody else but in my humble experience all the other professions take three steps backwards when a landscape architect comes to the table….I wonder why!!

Every landscape architect should create their own artwork or sculpture during their career at some point to understand the transition and development of the initial idea or concept through to the construction phases and siting……..I mean why not take the jump from designer to artist………All art is research in many ways if you think about,…[Read more]