I've been practicing for the past 14+ years and am thankful to be collaborating with a great team on great projects. If I were to recommend students focus on two things it would be: #1 Develop skills to visually communicate fast and effectively ("take time to develop your skills"), #2 Learn how to collaborate well with others- even if you work solo you will probably end up working with clients and other consultants ("relationships matter").
My LA school was a challenge. Lots of hours drawing and designing (pre-computer/CADD time period) on the table. Lots of studying and field work, but it paid off in a 4 decade job with a federal agency that appreciated the 100 LA’s that worked there. A career worth the hard studying and studio time in school.
Hey Carter! Would really help those in school atm if you dropped a video on site grading, running through any examples you’ve gone through. Let me know if you’d be able to drop a valuable video like that. Love this community ❤
Great video! As someone who is already well on their way I'm curious about the after school factors, like finding work and the right studio, things you should know when you start working, networking, etc..
Thank you! And your question probably requires another lengthy response because finding the right firm is actually quite hard,but you can always be networking in school and getting involved in your local asla chapter and stuff!
How did your experience in school differ from actual working in the field? Is there still a focus on collaboration and designing in a studio, because those are the two main things that drew me to wanting to study landscape architecture
I think the main difference between school and working in the field is the amount of time that you spend on documenting of a project. What you learn in school in terms of design school really only accounts for 10% of a normal project timeline. Otherwise yes there is always a massive amount of collaboration and design
You also don’t have billable hours constraints in school. This definitely puts an extra layer in the office. But spending time getting good at software AND hand graphics is a great use of design school.
also very true! however I will say as a person who is even a year or two into working professionally still doesn't quite have an idea of that concept - unless you are at a very small firm where you are in a position of management
@@DesignItGreen in the Jean while after Adobe update his term and condition and basically became like windows many creators are switching to Affinity to end greedy Adobe behaviour and the monthly subscriptions hated plans. Urge a video on this new program.
yeah I need to look into the affinity stuff - I have zero experience in those programs. but yeah everything is moving towards subscription based, in and out of the profession, sad times
@@DesignItGreen I really think you should have a look as many creators are doing in the last months. have a look in Tube. even if they are used to Ps and Ai and InDesign the Affinity programs are very logic to learn . they record the video while they use for the first time and they can already understanding commands. i think that landscapers should learn a mix of Affinity programs as post poduction and morpholio and procreate as tracking and sketching programs with sketchup on the side till they do not abandon monthly installements.
okay fair! But the point I was trying to make was to free your mind of the stress of the result so that way you could spend more time on the process of good design. (which leads you to a better grade anyways!) and more specifically I was talking about your studio classes in particular. in my experience in relation to the studio grades I never got lower than an A- which was basically from just doing what was required of me, which you need to do anyways to make it to presentation day. As for your other classes like Plant ID and sustainability and the others that isn't design based, YES, make sure you get good grades!
m a landscape architecture student in morocco and this year will be my last, m very anxious abt what do i do in the future after taking my diploma. do i try to get projects? and if so how can i find them? also i still have no idea abt taking a project to reality basically i know the stuff before the execution on site but the execution i know nothing about. great video btw i agree with all of your points also nice jiraya the gallant bg
Haha thanks! jiraya is the man! But I think all of your concerns are very typical to have at the stage you are at. I would really spend the time this year crafting a well thought out portfolio that really documents your abilities and also style as a designer. Then I think you would want to start applying to firms (I dont know how it works in Morocco but I assume its a firm setup) and then once you get your foot in the door you’ll start to learn the sketch to reality process more!
@@DesignItGreen there's a landscape architect that's been calling to work with him but i'll probably be there sitting doing the CAD stuff for his projects instead of creating mine i dont know if i should be going. and if i do how much time do i stay there for before becoming independent like him?
I think you probably need to spend as much time with that person until you feel that you could successfully run an operation on your own. Having your own gig requires a lot more than just being able to create a design. There's a ton of other skills needed in order to execute on the back end - like construction documentation, cost estimating, client relations etc. So my advice would be to not get bogged down if you have to do cad all day and figure out what else you can extract out of him in terms of knowledge
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I've been practicing for the past 14+ years and am thankful to be collaborating with a great team on great projects. If I were to recommend students focus on two things it would be: #1 Develop skills to visually communicate fast and effectively ("take time to develop your skills"), #2 Learn how to collaborate well with others- even if you work solo you will probably end up working with clients and other consultants ("relationships matter").
I couldn't agree more! This field is so much more communicative than I think a lot of people realize.
My LA school was a challenge. Lots of hours drawing and designing (pre-computer/CADD time period) on the table. Lots of studying and field work, but it paid off in a 4 decade job with a federal agency that appreciated the 100 LA’s that worked there. A career worth the hard studying and studio time in school.
Well said!
Hey Carter! Would really help those in school atm if you dropped a video on site grading, running through any examples you’ve gone through. Let me know if you’d be able to drop a valuable video like that. Love this community ❤
Can certainly plan a grading 101 type video for the channel! I actually really enjoy grading which is most peoples least fav aspect!
Let me know what kind of questions you have about design school!
Great video! As someone who is already well on their way I'm curious about the after school factors, like finding work and the right studio, things you should know when you start working, networking, etc..
Thank you! And your question probably requires another lengthy response because finding the right firm is actually quite hard,but you can always be networking in school and getting involved in your local asla chapter and stuff!
How did your experience in school differ from actual working in the field? Is there still a focus on collaboration and designing in a studio, because those are the two main things that drew me to wanting to study landscape architecture
I think the main difference between school and working in the field is the amount of time that you spend on documenting of a project. What you learn in school in terms of design school really only accounts for 10% of a normal project timeline. Otherwise yes there is always a massive amount of collaboration and design
You also don’t have billable hours constraints in school. This definitely puts an extra layer in the office. But spending time getting good at software AND hand graphics is a great use of design school.
also very true! however I will say as a person who is even a year or two into working professionally still doesn't quite have an idea of that concept - unless you are at a very small firm where you are in a position of management
Where have you been? a video after 8 months
A lot of life changes, burn out, trying to manage this an long full time hours, etc 😅
@@DesignItGreen in the Jean while after Adobe update his term and condition and basically became like windows many creators are switching to Affinity to end greedy Adobe behaviour and the monthly subscriptions hated plans. Urge a video on this new program.
yeah I need to look into the affinity stuff - I have zero experience in those programs. but yeah everything is moving towards subscription based, in and out of the profession, sad times
@@DesignItGreen I really think you should have a look as many creators are doing in the last months. have a look in Tube. even if they are used to Ps and Ai and InDesign the Affinity programs are very logic to learn . they record the video while they use for the first time and they can already understanding commands. i think that landscapers should learn a mix of Affinity programs as post poduction and morpholio and procreate as tracking and sketching programs with sketchup on the side till they do not abandon monthly installements.
I had to worry about my grades because I had a scholarship
okay fair! But the point I was trying to make was to free your mind of the stress of the result so that way you could spend more time on the process of good design. (which leads you to a better grade anyways!) and more specifically I was talking about your studio classes in particular. in my experience in relation to the studio grades I never got lower than an A- which was basically from just doing what was required of me, which you need to do anyways to make it to presentation day. As for your other classes like Plant ID and sustainability and the others that isn't design based, YES, make sure you get good grades!
Ok
m a landscape architecture student in morocco and this year will be my last, m very anxious abt what do i do in the future after taking my diploma. do i try to get projects? and if so how can i find them? also i still have no idea abt taking a project to reality basically i know the stuff before the execution on site but the execution i know nothing about. great video btw i agree with all of your points also nice jiraya the gallant bg
Haha thanks! jiraya is the man! But I think all of your concerns are very typical to have at the stage you are at. I would really spend the time this year crafting a well thought out portfolio that really documents your abilities and also style as a designer. Then I think you would want to start applying to firms (I dont know how it works in Morocco but I assume its a firm setup) and then once you get your foot in the door you’ll start to learn the sketch to reality process more!
@@DesignItGreen there's a landscape architect that's been calling to work with him but i'll probably be there sitting doing the CAD stuff for his projects instead of creating mine i dont know if i should be going. and if i do how much time do i stay there for before becoming independent like him?
I think you probably need to spend as much time with that person until you feel that you could successfully run an operation on your own. Having your own gig requires a lot more than just being able to create a design. There's a ton of other skills needed in order to execute on the back end - like construction documentation, cost estimating, client relations etc. So my advice would be to not get bogged down if you have to do cad all day and figure out what else you can extract out of him in terms of knowledge