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Interesting difference in drawing styles.
So you say you drew out all 1000 paver locations on CAD?
If you used an auto-fill function, that's different.
We actually leave a blank field for pavers on drawings, with only an occassional spot filled with a pattern.
That's because it is never known until the master installer lays the material, where it will go. So we avoid placing too much detail for which the installer must get permission for deviation.
Likewise with a pond or waterfall. We show a few significant boulder locations, and the simple basic outline of the water course, or the boundary of the waterfall. Any more than that, is counter-productive to the installation expert, and is needless symbol on a plan.
For example, if a driveway is labeled "exposed aggregate", no lines or texture are needed. The customer, and the concrete contractor both can see where the material will go.
The CAD experience you folks list seems to indicate why public works projects require landscape architects. And at least in Oregon, most residential design is done by designers or landscapers.
In Oregon, the landscape architect test is fairly void of horticulture material, and the 7 years of experience most of those architects have is usually in-the-office experience. In other words, they have a lot of school, but know little about pruning, digging, and 20 other things that make for expert designs.
Its amazing how useless college can be without experience in-the-field. In 1985, while working at the University of Portland, we had a volunteer worker for a week - the head of a local college horticulture program, and this person had a masters degree in horticulture. He did not even know the right way to use a shovel, or transplant a shrub.
At Portland Community College, one of the instructors commented about the willingness of the landscape design students to push a pen, but not push a shovel.
In our state, probably one of the biggest obstacles is limited wages for horticulture. There is incentive for people to work in the field for experience, or, to go to college for a degree in architecture, but not enough financial incentive to go to college, work in the field, and possibly for an architect too.
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