As you might now...
I'm an aspiring Landscape Architect.
But what you may not know... is that I'm also very interested in planning, be it city, urban, or regional scale. I'm currently researching schools that offer a Master's in these particular programs. I'm not necessarily saying that I will be going back to school for a Master's... but as we all know... the recession isn't leaving many of us much in terms of options. A 'Plan B' is always necessary.
Here are a few of my other interests:
Urban Planning and Design
Community Design
Sustainable Design and Development
Historical Preservation
Reclamation and Restoration
Parks and Public Spaces
The other question you might ask [I ask myself this all the time] is why am I interested in these things... and if I am able to do them... what would I really do with these types of interests?
If you can answer that... well, you would be far ahead of me by MILES.
All I can say is that I know what I "think" I might like, and the only way I will know for sure is if I am blessed enough to find an internship doing these things. I can surely cut my list down by telling you what I don't like based on past jobs. That list is very specific.
If nothing else, in it's most basic form, I just want to design and create beautiful, memorable, livable, people-friendly/people-oriented spaces. Why? Well... why the hell not.
There is so much garbage out there distracting us from seeing the bigger picture; the forest for the trees. The term 'getting back to basics' keeps getting tossed around almost as frequently as highly trendy and commercialized terms like 'eco-friendly', 'organic', 'all natural', 'green' and 'sustainable' ad naseum, but who is really implementing these types of things on a daily basis? Who is really caring about these things on a deeper level where they aren't jumping on board for financial gain, but they are jumping on board because it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO?
No need to get on my high horse or anything, but one of the problems [one of the problems] with society today is that we [and sorry to clump everyone into the same category, but for the sake of being too 'correct'] LACK WORK ETHIC. We lack passion. We lack determination. We lack ambition. We lack endurance. At the first sign of hard work we shudder with fear. There are a handful of people out there that are really willing to do the footwork and build their homes brick-by-brick and all the rest, well...
