Groups – Activity – Stoyan Yanchev

Gudmundur Arngrimsson joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 2 years, 1 month ago

LuisM joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 3 years, 2 months ago

Lucia Pastor-Roux joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 3 years, 10 months ago

Sonja Zindovic joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 3 years, 10 months ago

StudioCK joined the group Design Implementation 5 years, 2 months ago

StudioCK joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 5 years, 2 months ago

Silverio Pérez González joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 5 years, 8 months ago

Arnaud Van Blommen joined the group Design Implementation 5 years, 8 months ago

Arnaud Van Blommen joined the group European Landscape Architecture Network 5 years, 8 months ago

dipti kharel joined the group Design Implementation 5 years, 11 months ago

Teodorescu Irina joined the group Design Implementation 6 years, 1 month ago

Katherine Jacobs joined the group Design Implementation 6 years, 2 months ago

Bruce McWilliam Associates Landscape Design Group 778-809-9784 joined the group Design Implementation 6 years, 5 months ago

Jay Horton, RLA, ASLA posted an update in the group Design Implementation 13 years, 10 months ago

Brent, its been a year + since your comment and the same for me visiting the lounge, sorry for the delay! I am interested in hearing where you are in your career and what direction you chose to get there…

Gary van Eijk posted an update in the group Design Implementation 14 years, 10 months ago

We are strictly a design firm. I personally have some construction experience. When I hire, the FIRST thing I ask is about ANY hands-on experience. It’s extremely important in the residential design and PM environment. Although contractors are very helpful to interns during the construction process, I find that the construction mindset makes it…[Read more]

Pearl May posted an update in the group Design Implementation 14 years, 10 months ago

“I learned the ropes in the field prior to Licensure; I started at an ornamental tree farm then became manager and head of landscapeoperations, then lead designer, then partner in a design build firm, all the while not fulfilled in my carrer thinking that I took the wrong path by not stepping straight into a design firm. It wasnt until I joined a…[Read more]

Emily Musall-Fronckowiak posted an update in the group Design Implementation 14 years, 10 months ago

I also went to design Build after graduation. I feel that if you understand the installation from the hands on construction aspect, it will make you a better designer and allow you to push boundries because you really understand them.

Contractors can be allies or enemies and it will affect the project on some level. I have found that working in…[Read more]

Clayton Munson posted an update in the group Design Implementation 14 years, 11 months ago

Great conversation and thoughts everybody.

For me I went straight to a design/build after graduation but that is because I wanted to go that direction. I also spent 3 summers in the field doing the labor prior to graduation. No experience with a design only firm.

Correct me if I’m wrong but in most cases I design only firm doesn’t begin to deal…[Read more]

Brent Jacobsen posted an update in the group Design Implementation 14 years, 12 months ago

Tim, Jay, and others –

Just found this group, and am happy to see it exists. I am actually one of the Masters students you spoke about who is lacking direct landscape construction experience. I agree wholeheartedly with the comments, and see this as a huge problem. Do you have any suggestions on the best methods for acquiring this experience?…[Read more]

Tim Brown posted an update in the group Design Implementation 15 years, 3 months ago

Jay,
I have run into similar situations in my work experience, (I’ve worked at 4 firms and have ten years + of construction experience) where registered LA’s are “designing” things but have no practical knowledge of how the thing will actually stand up or be built and a very narrow knowledge of construction in general.It seems often-times the old…[Read more]