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What is the Job Description of a Landscape Designer?

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:53:15 +0000

A landscape designer is someone who has great passion in exploring the beauty of merging art and science together for the uniqueness and its excellent piece of astonishing buildings or land-yards with its finely decorated gardens and natural landscape surroundings. He is responsible to further enhance the beauty of the streets, walkways, play-ground, and also to restore the uniqueness of the natural habitats. This is the end result from an overly-advanced modern technology with many high rise buildings replacing the old habitat such as forest, lake and fountains along the mountains.

The designer’s work can be performed by preparing the design, specifications, and cost estimates for any assigned projects. Landscape architects talent is needed in many types of organizations such as the Government, Universities, Colleges, Hospitals, & many more. Most of their projects are on recreational parks and highways landscaping.

The work of a landscape designer is to make places look beautiful by planning, designing and managing open spaces including both natural and built environments. They work to provide innovative and aesthetically pleasing environments for people to enjoy, whilst ensuring that changes to the natural environment are appropriate, sensitive and sustainable. A landscape designer need to have the ability to assess a site’s potential to meet the client’s specifications as well.

Their work covers diverse projects for both urban and rural, which ranges from designing the layout of parks, gardens and housing estates to city-centre design to improving land affected by mining or motorway construction.

A landscape architect’s job may involve:
• surveying the site and investigating its natural resources and features as well as the wildlife and plants in the area
• using computer-aided design (CAD) packages to turn ideas for the project into plans
• choosing trees, shrubs and plants that will suit the land type and the needs of the site
• making sure there is suitable access to the site for disabled people and other users, for example people with pushchairs
• estimating the costs of constructing the landscape and maintaining it once it is complete
• giving presentations about the project to groups including clients, council committees, local people, and occasionally public enquiries
• once the initial work is kick-off, always remain close visit the site to make sure the designs are being followed and work is running smoothly.

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Perspective Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan I — Preface

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:56:50 +0000

Japan is a modern country as well as a traditional country, it is a major industrial country that ranks the No. 2 economy great power in the world, it has created a economy miracle with a very high degree of modernization in a small land whose area is as small as one of provinces in China.

Skyscrapers and modern fashion designs in Tokyo’s all make you dazzling, those high-tech products also very well-developed, while their eating, living, and daily use articles still remained very traditional, especially in Kyoto, there are very few high-rise buildings, most of buildings there are traditional low-rise residential, and inside living space there are tatamis, people used to sitting and sleeping on the floor, which is kind of very traditional way of life.

Rooms in Japan are mostly constituted with logs, white walls, papers and wood lattice sliding doors, which reflects a collateral system of tradition and modern, with the passage of time, the modern become integrated well with traditions, and Oriental aesthetics features will usually be added in modern designs.

Nordic think design is an integral part of their lives, Americans keep it as a money-making tool, while Japanese believe that design is a means of national survival.

After the war Japan was occupied by U.S. troops, on whose land they have to build barracks, homes, offices and various service facilities for themselves. As the U.S. military could not suited the Japanese way of life, they build American-style homes and furnishings according to American patterns and practices, and check and accept them according to American standards too, so the level of design skill in Japan raised rapidly and has attained to a top grade in the world.

At the beginning of the 60s, Japan began to establish specialties of interior design and furniture design. With professional design teams, they also set specialized subjects of interior design and furniture design in their higher education system.

During times of post-war, Japan put a high premium on both technical quality and talent development, which has built a solid foundation for its rapid development in future.

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