Trace One

“How can I help you and your company achieve it’s goals.”
(From NYT business section interview with business person, what they want to hear from interviewees..”
Never tried it myself.
 

Man, Thomas, you are good at that! You’re hired! (just kidding!)..
As other posters have noted, I can’t imagine a more uncomfortable juxtapostion of sitting like that at some bus stop with a stranger..And I know bus stops..
I am often peeved by placement of benches for transportation spaces – blocking off the central portion of a huge…[Read more]

Help, I got caught between bars and seat in freak accident while reaching for a hanky- chest being compressed – call out the Fire Department, bring a blow – torch!
 
 

Wow! I like the piano-key entrance..It would have to have Mugatu shrubbery – hair framing it,…

I love that book – Italian Gardens of the renaissance! Beautiful watercolor renderings..Now THAT is an art I would like to master..

I think i even looked it up, this time, Andrew..never sticks in my head, just never..oh well..

You sound very organized, Henry! But I agree – the ‘ show me’ problem – also exists when out walking around talking to clients – if you can sketch up an idea right there, they like it..sometimes..

I like this New Yorker thing – every week the guy draws some kind of painting, using his finger, on his iphone..Perhaps the computer oriented could use…[Read more]

yeah – Andrew, you have a point… I work with other guys now who are thrilled by the computers ability to get around their lack of drawing ability..

but how do you work out your plans? Do you sketch in the computer?

You have to draw to think..Even with the prevalence of computers, reallly for everything,( one still uses sketching, drawing, plan and section, to think..IMHO..

Arrgh! Sore topic with me! Mex fan palms are close to the native, I forget the exact designation for the native palms, BUT – these things grow in OASIS of water, not lining the streets or highways, which are best described as arroyos, rather than OASIS.
I have been thinking of this conceptual conflict recently – do you want to plant native plants,…[Read more]

Wow! Nutria from the Southeast sprinkled with toasted red palm beetles.. Just in time for Turkey day!

Thank you – I was unaware of this infestation..

Is that a euphemism, or just confusion? I am asking, not meaning to be rude.
Ryan asks in first sentence about non-buildable lots, a subject that always comes up in planning.

A lot that has been built on runs into pre-existing non-conforming stuff, inhibiting it’s abiltiy to expand or change. Is that what you mean by re-buildable?

Two separate…[Read more]

Don’t build on them..What is wrong with a little open space, for a couple of birds, for gods sake..
Southampton has dune setback requirements, which relates specifically to ocean-front mean high tide, etc. But what opened up the whole place to building is the flag lot regulations..Flag lots allowed every inch of southampton to be buildable..
I…[Read more]

It’s ok, I’ll just walk in the dark.

hee.

Good topic..Somewhat historical (getting dated?)..Do the ‘ecological urbanists’ also want to use charettes?

Why don’t you run a charette yourself? It can be fake, but still interesting..

And I think there are recent articles on the role of the professional vs. the role of the public in decision making – I have been frustrated for years by the…[Read more]

and what about MLA’s? I didn’t see any mention of that in the salary survey – maybe I missed it..But MLA’s in my experience, garner more money also..

I disagree with y ou, Tanya..I think the environmental movement has bent over backwards to please ranchers and hunters, and to incorporate them – there was in fact a distinct change in the composition of such groups as Ducks Unlimited and The nature Conservancy, as they did actually incorporate those types of values..Look at who the Secretary of…[Read more]

I think on a social site it seemed more descriptive – don’t remember why I checked that box, but in describing what one does, Associate doesn’t do much for visual images…
And don’t forget “landscraper” for honorary titles…
You are right, my bad…I will never speak the words Landscape Architect again!

Man, that’s IT, Andy! Muchas Gracias!

go figure, Jason, I can’t tell you any more other than it was in the early nineties, the Arboretum was new – I didn’t check it out very much before signing up for a ‘booth’, and was shocked at the flea market stuff myself..Didn’t sell a single t-shirt needless to say…