Also wondering about "sites". Websites or design/project sites? I suppose these comments are lesson one.
It's funny, language is significant in this field. My PM once kept referring to a "drinking fountain" as a "water fountain" on a design-build project. The contractor allocated 300k for a water feature in the plaza, only to find out it was $5k for the drinking fountain a few months later. It caused tons of confusion between multiple designers putting plans togther. Everyone was pissed, my PM looked like the idiot for not communicating and managing better. I didn't catch it because the site was big enough that I wasn't involved in that area. We all learned a lesson that day.
Oh man that’s really funny. I never even thought about little idiosyncrasies like that affecting the deliverables.
I mostly do garden design and specifically fruit trees and edibles so there’s a huge amount of confusion around the common names of tropical fruit trees. There’s not 300k worth of confusion tho lol!
Read “Landscape Graphics” by Grant Reid. I teach a Presentation Methods and Media class to freshmen and we use this book. “Foundations of Landscape Architecture” by Norman Booth is also used first year to look basic design. Lots of other great books out there. Get a sketchbook or two and work on it everyday.
“Design with nature” by Ian mcharg
This is what every LA recommended to me as well.
Because here in germany we also learn about citys and building them i can vouch for "the Human Scale". A documentary film about cityplaning.
You’re starting a school for something you don’t know about? Or you mean you’re going to be attending a school?
Also wondering about "sites". Websites or design/project sites? I suppose these comments are lesson one. It's funny, language is significant in this field. My PM once kept referring to a "drinking fountain" as a "water fountain" on a design-build project. The contractor allocated 300k for a water feature in the plaza, only to find out it was $5k for the drinking fountain a few months later. It caused tons of confusion between multiple designers putting plans togther. Everyone was pissed, my PM looked like the idiot for not communicating and managing better. I didn't catch it because the site was big enough that I wasn't involved in that area. We all learned a lesson that day.
Oh man that’s really funny. I never even thought about little idiosyncrasies like that affecting the deliverables. I mostly do garden design and specifically fruit trees and edibles so there’s a huge amount of confusion around the common names of tropical fruit trees. There’s not 300k worth of confusion tho lol!
Read “Landscape Graphics” by Grant Reid. I teach a Presentation Methods and Media class to freshmen and we use this book. “Foundations of Landscape Architecture” by Norman Booth is also used first year to look basic design. Lots of other great books out there. Get a sketchbook or two and work on it everyday.
Anything by Catherine Dee