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Tag: reading

How do you read?

November 12, 2017April 24, 2025

I know some people read one book at a time cover to cover as they want to keep the same train of thought. I read multiple books at the same time, I feel that reading books at the same time in the same or different areas allows for a crossflow of ideas and then possibly germination […]

Posted in Blog, Book Reviews, Reading, ThinkerTagged damian holmes, how to read, ideas, notes, reading

Reading outside your field

May 31, 2011September 6, 2020

Reading is an excellent way to stimulate your brain and gain new insights and generate new ideas. We often get stuck in a rut reading the same newspapers, books, authors, blogs, and other media that our field of vision becomes too focuses and narrow. It may be good for your job to be up to […]

Posted in Blog, Concepts, ManagementTagged field, ideas, innovation, practice, problem solving, problems, reading, solutions, solve

Recent Writing

  • From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
    Design firms thrive or falter based on their ability to attract new clients or secure projects from existing ones. All design firms require the ability to market their business to… Read more: From Design to Demand: Key Strategies for Marketing Your Design Firm
  • Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
    Article by Damian Holmes, Founder & Editor of World Landscape Architecture Recent years have shown an anecdotal decline in landscape architecture enrollments, influenced by factors such as economic downturns, rising… Read more: Reviving Landscape Architecture: Attracting New Students
  • Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
    Over recent years, there has been a beneficial shift in the focus of landscape architects to reduce the impact of climate change worldwide through the design of landscape-led projects, which… Read more: Op-Ed: Climate Change Action Beyond Projects
  • Why your design business needs systems
    Regardless of their size, your design firms require a set of systems that provide a defined series of workflows and decision-making processes. These can be informal or formal systems that… Read more: Why your design business needs systems
  • Activation to greater green spaces
    I wrote this op-ed as I had started to see many new projects that are largely “activation” within cities rather than addressing the environmental issues. More and more public spaces… Read more: Activation to greater green spaces
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