design curriculum

Identifying the Issue
It’s an unfortunate fact that landscape architects receive little or no formal education in watershaping while they’re in school.  As a result, where the typical landscape architect’s irrigation plan will show every pipe, fitting, wire and component for a given project, that same project’s pool plan will carry almost no detail at all. This phenomenon begs the question:  Why don’t our colleges and universities do more to educate landscape architects about watershaping?   The answer to this question causes me double pain, because I know full well that