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Playscapes
“Because everybody loves a playground.” Thats part of the tag line to one of my new favorite sites, Playscapes. One advantage of being a landscape architect, is the ability to design playgrounds. There...
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Boring Engineering Stuff – Silt Fences
Found an amazing article on silt fences that every Landscape Architect should be familiar with at Urbanworkbench. When going on site, the most common mistake a landscape architect will see, is poorly...
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Porchscapes
Im a bit tired of LID and LEED. I know, please don’t hurt me for saying that. Some would say they are the future of our profession. I don’t really disagree, but i don’t think that they need to take the...
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landscape architecture in San Francisco
Are there any San Francisco natives reading? Just got back from a week long trip and tried to take a quick survey of the local landscape architecture. First up: Union Square….. A piazza. in america.....
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Precedents and Sense of place
Sense of place can be described as characteristics that make a place feel unique and help foster an attachment to that place. “The term sense of place has been defined and utilized in different ways by...
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The Landscape Planning Drawing Process
This is my process for land planning drawings, from conceptual drawing to final illustrative site plan (its a bit different for smaller site scale projects). Step 1. Preliminary Information I love to...
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Landscape Architects Helping Each Other Out
Recently I was happy to help a fellow landscape architect out with a graphic header for his blog, Landscape Architecture Resource. He had crowd sourced the idea of designing a new header and put out a...
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Entry Feature – 8 steps from concept to reality
Getting things built is the most exciting part of being a landscape architect. (for me at least)… (although i really like coloring things and making them pretty as well…) But seeing an image in your...
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