Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice

by Bruce G. Sharky

Book Overview

Ready, Set, Practice

A SUPERB STUDENT TEXT. . . AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL OF THE TRADE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

The only single-source reference covering all essential areas of professional practice, Ready, Set, Practice is a comprehensive textbook for professional practice courses required by accredited landscape architecture degree programs. At the same time, it is also a superb guide to professional literacy and a career planner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471555126
• ISBN13: 9780471555124
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Great textbook for a landscape architect's personal library

My son who is a senior in landscape architect requested this book for his personal library.

A helpful guidebook for landscape architecture students and young design professionals

As a Fellow of American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA), Bruce Sharky summarizes his many years of professional practice experience in "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice." "Landscape architects practicing their profession today would barely recognize the profession as practiced by their nineteenth century forebears. Changes have come in education and training, development of skills and expertise, nature of practice, clientele, and professional values and attitudes..." Bruce Sharky writes. He continues to cover other essential aspects of landscape architecture practice, like terms used in professional offices, marketing strategies, ethics, contracts, preparing for LARE, etc. "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice" includes 17 chapters: Introduction, Historic Perspective, Ethical Perspective and Professional Conduct, Forms of Professional Practice, Professional Continuun, Marketing Yourself, Professional Service, Organizational Perspectives, Starting a Small Design Firm, Business Marketing, Office Records, Life of a Project, Legal Issues, Professional Services Contracts, Technical Specifications, Contract Administration, Concluding Thoughts. "Ready, Set, Practice: Elements of Landscape Architecture Professional Practice" has 280 pages. It is a required reading for many landscape architecture programs, and a helpful guidebook for landscape architecture students and young design professionals. Gang Chen, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Author of "LEED GA Exam Guide," "Architectural Practice Simplified," "Planting Design Illustrated," and other books on various LEED exams, architecture, and landscape architecture