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Roland Hagenberg and the Raiding Foundation invited Japanese landscape architect Yoshiki Toda for a lecture in Raiding, birthplace of composer Franz Liszt in...
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A landscape architect needs:
Sensitivity to landscape quality
Understanding of the arts and a humanistic approach to design.
Ability to analyze problems in terms of design and physical form.
Technical competence to translate a design into a built work.
Skills in all aspects of professional practice including management and professional ethics.
A formal education is essential to gain these skills and knowledge.Professional education in landscape architecture can be obtained at the undergraduate or graduate level. There are two undergraduate professional degrees: a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture (BSLA). These usually require four or five years of study in design, construction techniques, art, history, natural and social sciences.
There are generally three types of graduate degree programs:
The first-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is for persons who hold an undergraduate degree in a field other than landscape architecture, and intend to become landscape architecture practitioners. It can usually be earned in three years of full-time study.
The second-professional Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is for persons who hold an undergraduate professional degree in landscape architecture. It normally takes two years.
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Thirty images of youngsters being sexually abused were found on Vincent Tabaks computer - police only started considering evidence two weeks ago
Welook back at the most memorable courtroom moments, all done from notes because drawing in court is banned
Murdered Jo Yeates' parents have told how they frantically banged on car boots as they joined the search for their daughter last Christmas.
The parents of Jo Yeates are dreading Christmas without their daughter, one year after she was murdered.
JO Yeates' mum has told of her heartache at finally clearing out her daughter's flat nearly a year after she was murdered there.
Murdered Jo Yeates' father has told how her family have been astonished by the wave of public sympathy from across the country.
IF pornography was not as readily available as running water then Joanna Yeates would still be alive today.
VINCENT Tabak had sick images on his laptop showing children being sexually abused, police have revealed.
THE killer of Jo Yeates may have kept a sock as a trophy, it was claimed yesterday.
A FUND set up by the boyfriend of murder victim Jo Yeates had raised more than 4,000 yesterday.
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If good design is invisible, then you might not notice the intentional choices that go into designing a landscape. Its the work of a landscape architect to subtly guide you through a physical space and shape how you interact with it, and its a bit more than just choosing the potted plants.
To learn more about the work of a landscape architect, we spoke with Bret Hanson, who has worked for a variety of firms on projects ranging from public infrastructure to landscapes with Walt Disney Imagineering, and now is working in sustainable urban design with LPA Inc.
Pictured above: Plan for West Hollywood Park, image by LPA Inc.
Howdy! My name is Bret Hanson and I am a licensed landscape architect, which gives me the awesome authority to legally call myself a landscape architect, sign documents into construction, and explain to people I do more than residential. Currently I work for multi-disciplinary design firm, LPA Inc., in our Orange County office, specifically our Urban Design Studio. I have 10ish years of experience (straight outta Kansas) having worked at (four) very different companies and covered probably every market segment imaginable. Currently, my portfolio in LPAs Urban Design Studio focuses on civic, health care, life science, and various targeted developer work.
I was born, raised, schooled, and corn bread fed in Kansas. My mums side of the family were people of the soil, before, during, and after the depression. I spent a lot of my youth on our grandparents farm hunting, fishing, camping, hay bailing, off-roading, cow-tipping, and adventuring throughout the rural surroundings. One of my dads passions is sailing (yes, we actually have lakes in Kansas) so we also spent a lot of weekends on the water. Additionally, my mum has a background in textiles and my dad is a professional guitarist so I like to think some creativity inherently runs through these country veins.
As a kid my toy arsenal included LEGO, Lincoln Logs, G.I. Joes, He-Man, etc. From these tools many elaborate structures and forts were built with epic battles ensuing. This evolved during high school by me delving into architecture classes, even though I had the drawing skills of a two year old. I originally attended college to pursue architecture but switched to landscape architecture because I thought it offered more variety and was more encompassing. The biological nature of a landscape being alive was, and still is, poetic to me. These traits and experiences helped guide where I landed today, and planted the seed for my love and respect for working with our exterior environment.
I was born a surfer in a Kansans body, so after graduating with a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University, it was California or bust. KSUs program offers a semester long study abroad or internship program. I decided to intern abroad in California and snagged a couple of great internships in Orange County, which led to a permanent position after graduation. The steps to becoming a professional landscape architect are similar to architecture.
The internet memes usually portray landscape architects as either mowing lawns or sitting behind a desk clicking CAD all day. Part of this is true and you can definitely get pigeon-holed. In reality, no matter the discipline (landscape architect, architect, engineer, etc), our profession is extremely expansive. We are not only designers but planners, innovators, communicators, writers, coordinators, managers, marketers, green building leaders, and more. Landscape architects not only need to know about plants but also paving, walls, fence, rails, concrete, wood, metal, furniture, lighting, water features, irrigation, water management, and sustainability. Additionally, we must understand the construction of each piece and how they all stitch together cohesively within the overall site and ecological cycle. We do not just draw beautiful lines those lines must be approved by agencies, to code, within budget, buildable by contractors, and hopefully sustainable. As Ned Stark once quipped, One does not simply draw a paving joint.
Additionally projects have multiple phases and each phase has different players clients, multiple disciplines, consultants, product vendors, cities, agencies and contractors. This makes coordination and communication two of the most important skills within our profession as they are continuous throughout project life. An over simplified project phasing would be Conceptual Design, Construction Documentation (drawing and writing how project is built, agency approvals, bidding), and Construction.
Personally my current week is roughly 25% coordination (email, phone calls, meetings, submittals), 30% documentation and design (sketches, exhibits, CAD, Adobe, Bluebeam), 20% construction administration (field review, submittals, RFI, putting out fires), 20% management (project tracking, scheduling, reviewing plans), 5% miscellaneous (internal operations, marketing, recruitment, etc).
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Career Spotlight: What I Do As A Landscape Architect
Bonnie Chen
Monday, March 02, 2015
Now, chairman of landscape architectural firm Earthasia International (6128), Lau relishes his profession as it allows him to have a strong positive impact on the environment.
Currently, there are only 100 licensed landscape architects in Hong Kong, making them an elite but unique group of professionals.
"It's a sunrise industry," says Lau.
He has been outspoken in the past about the environment, drawing the attention of senior officials in the government who then decided to tap his expertise.
Lau is a member of the Town Planning Board and the Lands and Development Advisory Committee. In the past, he was a Eastern District Councillor and a member of the Harbourfront Commission.
Landscape architecture is a combination of diverse disciplines including botany, horticulture, fine arts, architecture, earth sciences, geography, and ecology that helps improve outdoor environment.
Three decades ago, Lau enrolled for a degree program on landscape architecture at the University of Toronto.
"I did not know what to study at that time. I first came across the term landscape architect while in a construction site one time... I then chose it even if I didn't know whether I could get a job after graduation," he recalls.
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One morning in 1961 at the Querini Stampalia, I asked him to keep water outside the palace He looked at me and after a pause he said: Inside, inside! Water must be inside, like everywhere in the city. We just need to control and use it as a shining and reflecting substance. You will see the light reflections on the yellow and purple stuccos on the ceiling. That is so gorgeous!
- Giuseppe Mazzariol,director of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia,recalls Carlo Scarpas attitude to the creation of the museum space in the centre of Venice.
When I arrived at the Fondazione one afternoon last week, the tide was rising and canal water was slowly infiltrating the dusty channels cast into the museums interior, making its way through round holes cut into the walls. The steel grilled watergate in the museums facade is permanently submerged and the sound of water lapping against stone inside the corridor and its cooling effect makes the spaceuniquely beautiful, neither interior nor exterior.
In the garden to the rear there is a beautiful continuity of form and material from the inside spaces.
I think Scarpas design and many of the older buildings in Venice offer a positive glimpse of future opportunities for living in cities threatened by rising water levels.
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Landscape Architecture - People and Place
Alan Rickman directs and stars in A Little Chaos with Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Ehle. Rickman also co-wrote the story with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock. Winslet plays Madame Sabine De Barra, an unlikely candidate for landscape architect of the stillto-be-completed Palace of Versailles. She has little time for the classical, ordered designs of the man who hires her, the famous architect Le Ntre (Schoenaerts). However, as she works on her creation, she finds herself drawn to him as she is forced to negotiate the perilous rivalries and intricate etiquette of the court of King Louis XIV (Rickman). A Lionsgate UK and BBC Films production, it was acquired by Focus Features in Toronto where the romantic drama was the closing night gala. Lionsgate has an April 17 UK release set. Check out the trailer above.
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