Portfolio Recommendations for Recent Graduates

You just graduated from school, exhausted by the final rush to complete your last projects.  You survived the final jury and you now stand proudly with your diploma, a graduate in Landscape Architecture.  Now, it is time to get out there…find a lucrative job with the most hip, up-and-coming, design savvy firm in [...]

What’s Out There

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has launched a valuable database that spans over two centuries of American Landscape Design.  It’s referred to as “What’s Out There” and is searchable by landscape name, locale, designer, type and style.  The Cultural Landscape Foundation has undertaken a much needed reference system and it is an excellent overlay [...]

The Space Between

The great thing about the Downtown Denver Partnership is that it brings together a cross-section of people who, whether they admit it or not, are experts in their field. Since diversity drives innovation, it makes for a great platform to explore issues that impact us all. To that end, [...]

Healing Landscapes

Here’s a good resource for anyone interested in healthcare garden design: Healing Landscapes.org.

The website is setup as a database to provide information on landscapes that promote health and well-being. Naomi Sachs, a landscape architect with an MLA from the University of California, Berkeley, is the Founder and Director of the Therapeutic [...]

Using Historical Photographs to Inform Design

If you haven’t already seen it, take just a few moments to check out this online collection of historical photographs.  It really does help ground one in the memory of the place and how we ended up where we are today.

For many locations in Colorado you can just type [...]