Welcome! My god, you’ve clicked a link and found my blog. Here I’ll be documenting my journey as a (student) landscape architect, describing my thoughts, methods, opinions and struggles. Maybe you’ll find it interesting; maybe you’ll learn to hate all that I am as a person – only time will tell. Let’s jump in!
I discovered landscape architecture after starting a smattering of business related university courses and not enjoying them at all. At the time, I just thought that was par for the course – uni shouldn’t be fun or interesting right? This is serious stuff, this is my future, my whole life, my income for the next 35 years; enjoyment doesn’t come into it, I need security! Weirdly, at 20 years old, I didn’t actually know what I should be doing for the next 35 years…the only options I saw at the time were either go to university or work “shit tier” jobs for the rest of my life. I promptly started leafing through my local university’s courses pages until l came across something that interested me: Landscape Architecture.
At school, I remember loving graphics, the methodical frantic clicking of a mouse to create straight lines and the satisfaction felt when completing incremental sections of a much larger project. That and working in the graphics room on our assignments at lunchtime came with the added perk of air conditioning, which in Brisbane’s humidity and my English tolerance for said humidity, was absolute bliss. And so in school I developed (much like Pavlov’s dog) an affinity to clicking buttons on the computer in the air conditioning. The natural progression from enjoying a subject at school to choosing subjects at university would of course be to choose courses that relate to the subjects you enjoyed at school. However as happens at the age of 17, I yielded to some well-intended but incorrect advice that had me convinced upon finishing school a path involving less AutoCAD and more Microsoft Excel would be best.
I’ve always been a bit of a nature lover. My fondest childhood memories are of fields and greenery in UK, exploring the woods with friends and interacting with streams wherever they crossed my path. When my family moved to Australia, my definition of “landscape” and “nature” dramatically altered. I simply cannot describe just how different it is in this country; and it’s all beautiful. Rainforests, eucalypts, beaches, snow, grassy plains, open skies, heat, cold, humidity, sunburn, floods, droughts, fires – it’s ever changing and infinitely interesting, (at least to me).
The mashing of architecture and landscape in a verbal composition of “Landscape Architecture” lit up the same part of my brain that succumbs so willingly to Pringles and set me on my initial path to becoming a landscape architect.
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