Very succinct description of design elements for any creative process, but especially for landscape architecture since one of the profession’s passions is outdoor spaces and these design elements are best utilized in designing outdoor spaces for humans, wildlife and plants to thrive. Great video.

Excellent video with great tips for new landscape architects coming out of college or in the first 4-5 years of the practice. It’s important to begin networking with other LA’s and related fields (engineering, biology, ecology, hydrology, geology, etc.). It’s also important to attend regional and national LA conferences to meet likeminded professionals and mentors. West Virginia sponsors the WV EXPO each year in charleston and LA’s from within the state and some students from WVU Meet for two days for education classes and mixing with vendors and other professionals. Great video.

And get licensed in one or more states to use the title “licensed landscape” and practice as a professional. It helps immensely.

Excellent video addressing the importance of analyzing the history and archeology of the site itself and its regional context as part of the site analysis process. I was fortunate to work in a federal agency that placed emphasis on these aspects of management of federal lands and development of new sites. Some of best friends at the office were the archeologists whose wealth of knowledge of these aspects of site development and management were unmatched. Learn from this video.

The “Wall” is one of the best examples of an emotional memorial excellently designed and constructed. I remember being there many years ago and experiencing the emotions of seeing their names on the wall. Unfortunately one of my high school classmates was on that wall. RIP.

Very good overview of the array of courses and subjects that landscape architecture students are involved in while at the BS level of study. What wasn’t discussed at any length was the design/construction elements of the profession addressing site analysis, construction materials (wood, concrete, stone, paving materials, fasteners, soils, and steel) and actual site construction details (grading, drainage, roads, sewers, irrigation, water supply) and other utilities that service structures and public spaces. Adapting site designs to fit the existing landscape/ecology and its indigenous species without significant impacts is a challenge but that’s the basis of the profession and a good program will get the student to that level of understanding by graduation.

What a landscape architect does in his or her practice is influenced to some degree by the emphasis of their employer. A college graduate in LA normally has all of the basic skills needed to design many types of projects from residential, commercial, institutional to public works. Basically, the LA is concerned with the landscape and its characteristics (slopes, soils, vegetation, water and drainage, wildlife, aquatic species, and inhabitants). These characteristics determine in part what can be designed and built without significant impacts to the ecology of the site while making the site useful for human uses (or maybe just for the species that currently live there). Arrangement of structures, access pathways, parking, sitting areas, playgrounds, playing fields, through levels of design (conceptual, preliminary and final) is an amazing process that brings an early vision into reality on paper or the screen and evolves into design drawings and construction drawings on the way to completion. Upon obtaining a state license to practice LA adds another level of expertise that expands the personal vision of practice into many avenues and collaboration with many other professional fields all dedicated to making our environment more useful, productive and sustainable.

Answering this question in less than 8 semesters is a challenge, but……ever wonder how all those trees and shrubs and grass lawns were placed on a college campus, or how that golf course was laid out with lakes, trees and sand traps, ever wonder how that city park was planned so that children could play and not get injured. Well, it’s likely that a landscape architect could have been involved in that planning and design. Ever seen or been at Central Park in NYC, YUP designed by two of the first landscape architects as well as many other city parks in the US. LA’s are the designers of everything outside of buildings (architects) and heavy construction designed by engineers (I.e bridges, tunnels, interstate highways and other large infrastructure). It’s a wide field and who you work for determines in part what you will be designing on the ground. Enjoy the field.

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He was an early pioneer of the most important concept of what people can do to save the planet today...restore habitat...but the percentage of ground he actually used for plants, was way too small, and there is still a great need to understand bettter how plant communties and their co-evolved animals work together...plants don't live in isolation as specimens...they need undisturbed soil richer in life than that above the ground, they need their pollinators to not be hijacked by introduced species...relationships like that...we need more support for research in these areas, and if we are willing to work to defend the biodiversity of our homes (each of us, seeking to restore at LEAST 50-70% of every kind of habitat)...there might yet be hope for us. But it is going to take a lot of hard work...not polarization and hate. It is about our survival now, people, pay attention.

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