Covering issues in practice for designers and creative professionals is central to LAM‘s mission.
Below are a few recent features on business management, diversity, technology, and work/life balance tackling the practical, everyday issues of running a successful business, for design firms of every size.
Designed Transition
Cheryl Barton winds down after decades as CEO, and her office becomes part of SCAPE. By Bradford McKee If there were good, recent books on passing a design firm’s ownership from founders to successors (there aren’t), it sounds as if Cheryl Barton, FASLA, and Kate Orff, FASLA, would have had little use for them. In […]
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The Team on Tops
By any count, Presidio Tunnel Tops had an unusual number of women in construction and project leadership. They say there are good reasons for that. By Anne C Godfrey An unexpected amount of rain fell on the Presidio Tunnel Tops construction site this past October. The rain was a mixed blessing; though welcomed by parched […]
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A Bumpy Reentry
Women landscape architects are finding the road from part-time to full-time work full of potholes. By Jared Brey Barbara Peterson, ASLA, is a night owl. During the 16 years she worked as a part-time landscape architect, she typically spent the hours of 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. sending emails, working on designs, and stamping plans. […]
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Mind the Gaps (and Curves) with Precast Concrete
Getting the best from precast concrete requires a little flexibility. By John Payne, ASLA, and James Dudley Precast concrete, which is concrete that is cast into its final form before it is installed, has long been used in architecture and engineering for myriad forms and applications. These include bridge trusses, ornamental cladding, and prestressed beams. […]
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