Herb is a Senior Associate with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, one of the top landscape architecture firms in the world. Sweeney has worked on numerous high-profile projects across the world including the Asian Cultural Complex in South Korea and the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, TX. Herb opens up about what makes a successful architect and how to handle the long and intense entry-level years.
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My name is Herb Sweeney. I am a graduate from Landscape Architecture Program from 2003, and I am a senior associate at Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburg Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I think my simple explanation of landscape architect is it's everything beyond the walls of architecture. So, from park spaces to street scapes, urban conditions, the campuses. A typical busy day, it all depends on what stage of the project that I working on we're at. Currently my typical day or I guess, weeks, are composed of a lot of travel. My project currently I'm working on is in Texas, so I'll spend upwards of three to four days a week out at the project site. I'm working with landscape contractors, working whole various different trades in construction as they're building the project. But on stages where we're in design phases, it's more in the office working with consultants trying to coordinate drawings to get these projects constructed.
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