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The LAM Gift Guide for Landscape Architecture Graduates

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Books, tech, and lots of pens to set the newly minted designer up right. I loved this book for inspiring me to design robust, diverse, aesthetically pleasing native plant communities that outcompete traditional turf-dominated yards.” I recommend this book for anyone who is designing, specifying, installing, and managing trees.

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Single-Handedly, Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand

architect design™

In this age of computer-aided everything (CAD, sketch-up, photoshop, etc) it's refreshing to know there are those in the architectural community who still draw by hand. As stated about his work in the book, these drawings straddle the line between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

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35 Perfect Gifts for Landscape Architecture Graduates

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Updated and expanded for 2023 grads, with more tech, more cult books, and a few surprising must-haves for the newly minted designer. ” —Bo Zhang, ASLA (Almost) All the Books Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. “A “As beautiful and inspiring as it is practical.

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Shades of Grey

The rare bit of random cartoon sketching on my phone reminded me of the wonderful books my son Joe produced in his early teens. The faded pencil work loses much of its vitality when digitised but I have had a couple of attempts at enhancing them in Photoshop. So many unfinished projects.

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TSAR Carpets’ and Brooke Aitken’s new collection is an Ode to the Passing of Time

Habitus Living

Inspired, she grabbed a pen and sketched out styles and marked down colours, later hanging this scribe on her pinboard as a note to her future self. BA: I initially created six designs in photoshop which were then passed over to TSAR. HL: This collaboration was primarily done through COVID and lockdowns. TSAR Carpets. tsarcarpets.com.

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Photo's #frommydesk | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

” October 26th, 2012 “This is what my office did for lunch” #beer and napkin #sketches. August 10th, 2013 “concept assembly sketch for a modern house I will feature on LoaA” #vegetativeroof. August 23rd, 2013 “and so it begins … #design #sketch #architect” #architecture.

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If You’re Not Having Fun, then You’re Doing Something Wrong

Life of an Architect

In one part of the tour, these sorts of construction drawings are put up on the wall as a sort of wallpaper and I couldn’t wait ( for the first time ever ) to get to the gift shop at the end of the tour, only to be disappointed that almost nothing of what I wanted to see was included in any of the books made available.