Trace One

so we are mediators? that is where I disagree. I think we should be leaders. Olmstead’s interpretation of democracy in park design was new – as was his re-interpretation of the site, for the Prospect Park competition. Ian McHarg was famously argumentative, whether for drainage or GIS..Is it enough to simply install more drip irrigation in the…[Read more]

James Corner, Field Operations; Peter Calthorpe; and Bryan Fuermann from Yale University (History of Landscape Architecture.) Nicholas Ourousieff (sp?); the LA from Arizona State who specializes in Richard Neutra; Edwina Von Gal;

Yes. but I do actually believe that good-lookingness is one of the most important criteria, when it gets down to actually landing a job…..I have heard that Japanese teenagers and twenty-somethings get into plastic surgery, to help in the hiring process..

Most important – personal appearance and presentation. Second, hard-working, thorough and detail oriented. Third, non-temperamental or idiosyncratic. But good-lookingness trumps it all..In my humble..!
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Thank you!I have been wondering what Leslie Sauer was up to for years!!!!

there are just two books, A Pattern Language is more coherent of the two, but I love them..Plus very pretty books ..if you want to go for just being happy with the book in your hands!
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A Pattern Language..Christopher Alexander..not about sustainable landscapes, just sustainable communities..

You can do perspectives on your iphone now – how about that for impressing a client..I think the program is called Brush, or blush? See the New Yorker site – every week they publish a new iphone drawing, showing it as it gets built up…And apparently in Japan they have abandoned pc’s for internet connections through their phones? (the cloud..)

I agree, Brian – I find new graduates don’t even know how to ‘think with trace’, something that I think is fundamental to designing…just laying down piece after piece of trace, as you slowly evolve the design…I think computers have ruined our design thinking – architects that are popular now, such as Frank Gehry, don’t even consider the human…[Read more]

I went to U of Penn – no history. I have looked at many programs, as I am interested in teaching. I see very few history courses..So I am not sure about that accreditation claim..Perhaps I am wrong, but it is certainly not evident in the programs, both graduate and undergraduate, I have looked at…I’m sticking to my guns..We need history. It…[Read more]

Thanks for the contact – there are committees that I just missed the deadline for last year, intend to re-apply when it comes around again..I don’t know – I think we should have a basic knowledge of landscape architectural history, like a basic knowledge of US history, which I think is required to graduate from high school, or at least used to…[Read more]

So the solution is to water our profession down even further? We need to raise ourselves up, to be able to teach those in the legislature how important the design of the land has been, and will always be..Here in California Jerry Brown may run for governor again, and so everyone is recalling his attitude towards the Department of Highways – he…[Read more]

Wow. I think that our country has taken the idea that history is completely influenced by the perspective of the viewer to the point of absurdity..There are facts, in history. There is an evolving attitude towards nature, or cultural attitudes towards nature, that can be studied and learned from. To say that we do not know more about human…[Read more]

It is, as far as I am concerned, a question of competence..I do not see how one can be a competent landscape arch. and not have a familiaritly with historical precedents. We aren’t making this up from scratch. Also, I think as professionals, we should be invested in promoting knowledge of landscape architecture – it can only raise our status…But…[Read more]

I disagree. Just as knowledge of ethics is a part of being a landscape architect, one should have knowledge of the history of the profession – it is part of being a landscape architect. A knowledge of the development historically of building materials can help you to recogize problems with new processes, or to recognize a practice that has already…[Read more]