Design the Future: ENV Careers in a Transforming Job Market

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PREDICTING THE FUTURE IS VERY DIFFICULT. BUT SOMEBODY HAS TO DO IT.

By MICHAEL WOO, Dean, College of Environmental Design

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college is something like a hatchery, an incubator, a laboratory, a conservatory, a hothouse, a think tank. We grow things.

In the case of the College of Environmental Design, we grow aspiring architects, artists, art historians, curators, graphic designers, landscape architects, urban planners, and other design professionals. When they are ready, we unleash them upon the real world.

Over my 10 years as Dean of the College of Environmental Design, our real world has been bumped, dumped, shaken, and sometimes upended by an unpredictable confluence of changes. When I listen to alumni and employers, I hear about the never-ending succession of new software or other technology, the economic impact of outsourcing, the challenges of finding enough qualified applicants to fill vacancies, or the new ways that people (especially in cities) live, work and move around.

This report represents a snapshot of the changes that we see and thoughts about the resulting impact on the jobs and careers that lie ahead for our graduates.

You might consider it a progress report on “progress.”

Back in 1971, when the College of Environmental Design (abbreviated as ENV) was founded at Cal Poly Pomona, we were on the cutting-edge of academic approaches to the built and natural environments.

Adapting Cal Poly Pomona’s pragmatic learnby-doing philosophy, ENV was one of only a few universities around the country that had a holistic vision of the interrelationships between the physical design disciplines. At other universities, the design disciplines were commonly divided among schools of arts, agriculture, social and natural sciences, and public administration and policy. This tended to make interdisciplinary collaboration among designers more

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difficult. At ENV, on the other hand, the orientation to design was more holistic, further broadened in the 1990s with the addition of the Department of Art and then, presaging the growing awareness of sustainability, the interdisciplinary John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. ut with the accelerating pace of economic and technological transformations in the last few years, it has become increasingly obvious that there are momentous things happening out there that we need to understand more clearly.

However, looking back on an earlier chapter in my career, I realize how hard it can be at the time to have that clear understanding. As a young Los Angeles city councilman (and idealistic urban planner who suddenly had a measure of power to make changes), I initiated a districtwide moratorium on the development of mini-malls, the new commercial developments that frequently replaced economically obsolete gas stations with franchised convenience stores and small retail shops and services.

Many of my constituents applauded the moratorium because they thought that the convenience stores were unsightly or generated traffic congestion. But I gradually realized that my moratorium came along too late to be

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Over my 10 years as Dean of the College of Environmental Design, our real world has been bumped, dumped, shaken, and sometimes upended by an unpredictable confluence of changes.

truly effective. It would have been better to intervene at an earlier stage, when the gas stations were starting to feel the economic pressure of rising gas prices, and not later when the convenience stores already had become a development formula that could bail out gas station and property owners.

My gas-station-to-convenience-store tale is rooted in the 1970s and 1980s. But looking to 2020 and beyond, what are the transformative factors that could have profound impacts on the jobs and careers of ENV graduates?

A more recent example of our predicament was crystalized in a recent conversation with a local city planner. When I asked him how cities are preparing for the onslaught of autonomous vehicles, he told me: “We’re obsessing about the wrong things. Autonomous vehicles aren’t going to be here for 20 or 30 years, but lots of people are asking me what we’re doing to get ready. Meanwhile, suddenly, electric scooters show up

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on our sidewalks, and nobody saw them coming. There weren’t any rules. It was chaos.”

He added: “We’re in an era when we can’t stop a lot of things. Change is coming, but how do we manage it?

How do we create systems that protect what needs to be protected, but are more fluid and not rigid?”

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ne way to answer the question would be to look at the sectors of the Southern California economy that are likely to grow, and explore the opportunities for jobs for ENV graduates. To highlight a few sectors:

The vibrancy of the construction industry in Southern •California and other parts of the state has put design

and construction employers in a bind, unable to find enough qualified employees for their projects. (This has been reflected in steep, steady growth in the number of employers seeking to participate in the annual job fairs organized by ENV’s Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.)

The healthcare sector is likely to continue as a steady •source of job growth in the nation, state, and region.

It makes sense to assume that growth in hospitals, clinics, outpatient facilities and specialized services will need more architects and other design professionals to create new spaces and buildings, and to renovate existing facilities. (ENV’s Department of Architecture has established the only Healthcare Architecture initiative at a university west of the Mississippi that is producing a pipeline of architects trained to design the facilities that will be needed by this dynamic sector of the regional and national economy.) entertainment industry and digital media account •forThe burgeoning opportunities for graphic designers and

artists working in video games, apps and websites. In addition, as the entertainment and media worlds overlap and intersect with place-based tourism, hospitality, and retail, there also will be more opportunities for physical design professionals (such as architects, landscape architects and planners) to join project teams.

Los Angeles County, transportation is going to •beIna major source of jobs for the next 40 years. Voter approval of L.A. County Measure M in 2016, which authorized an increase in the sales tax to pay for C O L L E G E O F E N V I R O N M E N TA L D E S I G N

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transit and other mobility improvements, will create an estimated 465,000 jobs across the county. Responding to the urgency of transportation issues in the region, ENV’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning has hired two assistant professors specializing in transportation who are joining the faculty this fall.

sectors that may not at first appear to be related •to Even environmental design, such as aerospace and defense, may represent opportunities for graphic designers to assist in explaining scientific content to a broader audience or for architects, interior architects, landscape architects, and urban planners to help find answers related to human habitation in space travel or colonies and settlements beyond Earth.

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hanges in consumer attitudes toward transportation and mobility could yield many fascinating opportunities for ENV graduates. For example, if transportation alternatives such as ride-hailing (Uber and Lyft), ride-sharing (Zipcar), and electric scooters continue to grow, and if current trends persist among young people who are acquiring driver’s licenses and automobiles later (or not at all), there could be far-reaching implications: parking structures may not be needed, at •leastExisting in part, and there could be future demand for converting parking structures to non-parking uses.

Land-use patterns such as suburban auto malls (with •concentrations of car dealerships that enrich some

prosperous suburban areas with sales tax revenues) or linear corridors of mechanics, body shops, smog check centers, tire stores, and other auto-related small businesses may shrink or disappear and be converted to other uses.

Autonomous vehicles and drones are on their way to •replace human-driven delivery trucks and other vehicles, relying on emerging “intelligent systems” of sensors, data networks and near-instantaneous analytical capabilities.

UTC Mall in San Diego is converting •oneTheof Westfield its parking lots into a 23-story building consisting of 300 rental units. In fact, the impact of “overbuilding” retail (quadrupling of shopping center space between 1970 and 2007 compared with the U.S. population

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Change is coming, but how do we manage it? How do we create systems that protect what needs to be protected, but are more fluid and not rigid?

growing less than 50 percent during the same period) may be creating opportunities for new land uses.

In West Los Angeles, near the route of the popular Metro Expo Line light rail, developers Hudson-Pacific and Macerich are converting the Westside Pavilion mall (formerly dominated by Nordstrom and Macy’s department stores) into almost 600,000 square feet of creative office space for Google.

However, not all the prospects are rosy. Some of the biggest challenges include:

gap between the haves and have-nots •andThethewidening persistence of poverty and unequal opportunity are threats to the health of the nation, the region and our local communities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our failure to show substantive progress in providing “a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family” (a stated goal of the federal Housing Act of 1949). There could be a lot of work for architects, planners, landscape architects, graphic designers, and artists skilled in communication if there were the political will and the financial resources to address the need for housing. Designers could be exploring the vexing problem of making urban density (in the form of micro-units, “accessory dwelling” units or “granny flats,” urban dormitories) compatible with the natural human desire for air, light, space, privacy, and access to nature. They could explore pre-fabrication or other innovative construction methods or materials. But the question of political will and economic resources remains a big “if.”

Climate change and its implications — rising sea •levels, increased wildfire risk, unpredictable extremes in weather, impetus for systemic change from carbonbased to renewable energy sources and measurable

reductions in energy and water use, adaptations in agriculture and landscaping, and development of resilient systems — present opportunities for environmental design professionals to do good work.

and design roles, leading to the emergence of larger companies, is there room for smaller or individual voices?

or a clearer picture of the changes coming, we wanted to decipher what the numbers could tell us. We commissioned a study from the Institute for Applied Economics, the research arm of the L.A. Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), which has conducted sectoral analyses of numerous L.A. County industries, including aerospace, biosciences, fashion and apparel, advanced transportation, and entertainment and digital media. We asked the Institute for Applied Economics to analyze employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for selected designrelated occupations in Southern California (Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties), where many of our graduates live and work.

In the subsequent pages of this report, you will find projections of job growth in the design disciplines in Southern California over the next five years. This exclusive feature of the report has many practical uses, especially for high school and community college students choosing a major, and current college students and members of the workforce considering a change of direction. The report includes descriptions of the occupations, lists of skills needed for jobs in each occupation, annual wages, related occupations and job titles, as well as lists of prominent or notable practitioners whose careers and accomplishments merit further exploration online.

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In this report you will also see a glimpse of some of the challenges within the environmental design disciplines, such as:

What will be the impact of new technologies on •environmental design practice?

Will outsourcing and technology have the effect of •reducing the economic value or autonomy of individual

environmental design professionals? Or will outsourcing and technology make smaller firms more competitive with larger firms?

• Amid the convergence of construction, engineering,

can a well-intentioned individual practitioner get •theHow power and the resources to make the changes that

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his report does not offer answers to all the questions. Consider it a preliminary attempt to ask the right questions and start a conversation about the big picture, and the next steps that will be necessary to connect the future and our unsettled present.

After 10 years as Dean of ENV, it is my turn to step down. Although my work as a full-time administrator has brought many levels of fulfillment, I must admit that some of my most satisfying experiences came from slipping back into the classroom and interacting with students.

In spring semester 2019, I created and taught a one-time interdisciplinary seminar titled “Disruption by Design.”

With six architecture majors and two engineering students, we met every Tuesday morning to explore the implications of Airbnb, Amazon, Tesla, Uber and Lyft, WeWork, electric scooters, self-driving cars, and other disruptive forces. While my students and I never really settled any arguments, I came away with a high regard for the ability of the students to reflect and imagine.

If you can’t imagine the future, you won’t be able to shape the future.

BY THE NUMBERS

The Institute for Applied Economics at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation provided the occupational profiles and forecast numbers, which cover Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties, for this report.

Value of Education

Education plays an important role as a social catalyst. Universities across the nation are being evaluated according to the Social Mobility Index developed by CollegeNET, which measures the extent in which a college or university educates more economically disadvantaged students at a lower tuition and graduates them into good-paying jobs. Cal Poly Pomona was ranked No. 3 in the nation in 2018 among the universities that help low-income students find financial success after graduation.

CPP is one of only five universities that has ranked in the top 20 for five consecutive years.

Within the College of Environmental Design, our talented students, many of whom are from first- or second-generation families, look forward to improving the quality of life for their communities as well as bettering themselves and their families. The findings and stories in this report give a picture of job opportunities in Southern California that await the talented, well-prepared design students graduating from our college, and provides an empirical roadmap as ENV charts a course for implementation of its new five-year Strategic Plan.

—LAUREN WEISS BRICKER, Interim Dean, Professor of Architecture

WITH GRATITUDE TO THE CHARTER MEMBERS OF THE ENV EMPLOYERS COUNCIL

Walt Disney Imagineering • HMC Architects • BrightView The purpose of the ENV Employers Council is to provide industry support for the next generation of design professionals, helping them become the creative problem-solvers, thinkers, and doers who will design the world of the future. For more information, please contact Jenkins Shannon, ENV’s Senior Director of Development, at 909-869-5128 or jshannon@cpp.edu.

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Architects

Architectural & Engineering Managers

While it is true that architects plan and design buildings, a trained architect is a lateral-thinking problem-solver capable of much more. A trained architect learns to design environments that are interesting and comfortable to occupy and safe and accessible to all, in accordance with regulations, codes and law. Architects are expected to design spaces and places that serve a clear purpose within a budget. There is also an implicit expectation that architects should be able to create environments that lift the human spirit.

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in fields such as architecture and engineering or research and development.

—Professor GEORGE PROCTOR (‘89, architecture and urban and regional planning), Chair, Department of Architecture

Tools and Technology

Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, MongoDB, NoSQL

AutoCAD Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Trimble SketchUp Pro Development Environment Software Apache Maven, Verilog Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

Annual Wage 2018

Michael Graves Jeanne Gang Jospeh Kosinski

Architectural and Engineering Managers

Denise Scott Brown

Purchasing Agent

Grinding machine, compass, drafting kit, utility knives

Annual Wage 2018

$83,500 Average Annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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Construction Manager Logistics Engineer

Main Industry Employers

Logistics/ Construction Manager

Jonathan Segal

Charles and Ray Eames

Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera, Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

$29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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+505 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 7,280 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 7.0% 5-year Projected Growth

$160,160 Average Annual Regional Wage

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software

—ELIZABETH TIMME, Co-Executive Director, LA-Más

+1,025 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 14,740 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 7.0% 5-year Projected Growth

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Architectural and Engineering Services Computer and Peripheral Equipment

There are all sorts of reasons why young designers might be better able to deploy their talents if they base themselves outside the urban center. A lot of the most interesting design work is being done in smaller cities and regions such as Denver, Detroit, and Austin.”

—JOHN KALISKI, AIA, Principal, John Kaliski Architects; Past President, AIA, Los Angeles Chapter

Scientific Research and Development Electronic Instrument Manufacturing Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

In your first two to three years, you’re breaking your brain, and so the downside is that you become incredibly insular, and once you’ve learned how to do it, it feels great, like a drug, and you want to just hang out with other designers but that’s when you should go out into the world.

Architect Civil Engineer Transportation Engineer

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Plan, direct, coordinate or budget the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, and implementation.

Includes specialized construction fields such as carpentry or plumbing. Roles include general superintendents, project managers, and constructors who manage, coordinate, and supervise the construction process

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Concrete Foreman Construction Area Manager

General Contractor Job Superintendent Project Executive

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Architectural Drafters: Prepare detailed drawings of architectural designs and plans for buildings and structures according to specifications provided by architect.

Civil Drafters: Prepare drawings and topographical and relief maps used in civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, pipelines, flood control projects, and water and sewage control systems.

Perform surveying and mapping duties, usually under the direction of a surveyor, cartographer, or photogrammetrist to obtain data used for construction, mapmaking, boundary location, mining or other purposes. May calculate mapmaking information and create maps from source data, such as surveying notes, aerial photography, satellite data or other maps to show topographical features, political boundaries, and other features. May verify accuracy and completeness of topographical maps.

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+1,975 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 16,860 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 11.7% 5-year Projected Growth

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Architectural and Civil Drafters

Civil Designer Draftsperson

Drafting Technician

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General and Operations Manager

CAD Technician

Logistics Manager Architectural and Engineering Manager

Technology is making it possible to create cultural communities that are not place-based.

Civil Engineer

—FRANK CLEMENTI (’86, architecture), FAIA, AIGA, Creative Director, Architecture, Rios Clementi Hale Studios

Annual Wage 2018

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Geographic Information Systems Technician Cartographer and Photogrammetrist Marine Architect

Tools and Technology

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Related Occupations

ERP Software

CAD Technician

Environmental Engineering Technician

Graphics or Photo Imaging Software

Geospatial Analyst

Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Visio

Photogrammetric Compilation Specialist

Development Environment Software

Instrument Operator

Geological Sample Test Technician

Microsoft.NET Framework

Engineering/Survey Technician

GIS Technician

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Dassault Systèmes CATIA

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Geodetic Surveyor

Mechanical Engineering Technician

Civil/Electrical Drafter

Annual Wage 2018

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software Autodesk AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Bentley GeoPak Bridge, Microsoft Visio Map Creation Software ESRI ArcGIS Software, GIS Software

$70,610 Average Annual Regional wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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+120 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 1,640 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 7.2% 5-year Projected Growth

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Graphic Designers

Art Directors

Create visual communication to meet a client’s specific commercial or promotional needs. These may include book or magazine design, branding, motion graphics (animation or digital footage to create the illusion of motion or rotation), packaging, print design, 3D design, UX/UI design (“User Experience” or “User Interface” relating to the usability, ease of use, comfort, or pleasure inherent in a product or design), and web — often with multiple areas of design being used in tandem. A growing area in graphic design is “Design Thinking,” which is utilized in technology and media companies, think tanks, in-house positions in non-design organizations, and advocacy groups.

Annual Wage 2018

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Tools and Technology

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software AutoCAD, Bentley MicroStation, Dassault Systems CATIA Database User Interface and Query Software Microsoft Access, SQL Desktop Publishing Software Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Visio Web Platform Development Software AJAX, Drupal, HTML, JavaScript C O L L E G E O F E N V I R O N M E N TA L D E S I G N

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Deborah Sussman Michael Bierut Stephen Heller April Greiman Milton Glaser Stefan Sagmeister Paula Scher Massimo Vignelli

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—Associate Professor ANTHONY ACOCK, Chair, Department of Art

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Advertising and Promotions Manager Cartographers and Photogrammetrist Art Director Multimedia Artists and Animator Interior Designer Film and Video Editor Desktop Publisher

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Similar Job Titles Creative Director Design Director Creative Manager Publications Designer Online Producer Artist

Formulate design concepts and strategies while directing workers engaged in graphic design and copy writing across the entire spectrum of visual communications, including book and magazine design, branding, motion graphics, packaging, print design, 3D design, UX/UI (“User Experience” or “User Interface”) design, and web.

Specialized Design Services Newspaper, Book and Directory Publishers Printing and Related Support Management and Technical Consulting Computer Systems Design Motion Picture and Video

Tools and Technology

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software Autodesk 3ds Max Design Desktop Publishing Software Adobe InDesign Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Web Page Creation and Editing Software Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver, social media software

Related Occupations Advertising and Promotions Manager Multimedia Artists and Animator Fashion Designer Graphic Designer Interior Designer

Web Platform Development Software

When looking at an applicant’s portfolio, I appreciate not just seeing a flashy design, but the applicant’s ability to articulate the process that led to their final design. I want to see their initial sketches that may look very crude and incomplete, but actually allow me to see the development of the core idea within their design and to understand the process by which the applicant solved the problem.

—MICHAEL A. ROSS, AIA, Director of Architecture, Walt Disney Imagineering

JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor

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+265 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 4,630 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 5.7% 5-year Projected Growth

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Creative/Design/ Consumer Products Director Production Manager

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Film & Video Editors

Record images of various subjects: people, products, merchandise, architecture, landscapes. Photographers also work in journalism, museums and fashion.

Photographers almost exclusively work in digital formats with an increasing industry dedicated to aerial, scientific, and drone photography.

Annual Wage 2018

$43,270 Average Annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

Similar Job Titles Advertising Photographer Commercial Photographer Portrait Photographer Photojournalist Photo Editor Operations Analysis

Related Occupations Camera Operators for TV, Video and Movies Film and Video Editors

Tools and Technology

Desktop Publishing Software Adobe InDesign Document Management Software Adobe Acrobat Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, SmugMug Flickr Atmospheric effect apparatus, camera flashes, lighting, lens and filter, light reflector, timer

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Work with movie soundtracks, television and commercial editing, film editing, and title sequence editing.

Tools and Forecast Technology +515 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software

9,950 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 5.2% 5-year Projected Growth

Autodesk Maya for Design Visualization

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Enterprise Application Integration Software

News Editor

Extensible Markup Language XML Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Video Creation and Editing Software Adobe AfterEffects, Apple Final Cut Pro Web Platform Development Software AJAX, HTML, JavaScript

Editor

Non-Linear Editor

Multimedia Artists & Animators Create special effects, animation or other visual images using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products or creations, such as computer games, movies, music videos and commercials.

Related Occupations Art Director

Graphic Designer Director for Stage, Movies, Television, and Radio

Online Editor

Technical Directors/ Managers

Videographer

Film and Video Editor

Related Occupations

Mapping Technician

Audio and Video Equipment Technician Sound Engineering Technician Camera Operators for TV and Motion Pictures

Tools and Technology

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software AutoCAD Civil 3D Web Platform Development Software Drupal, JavaScript

Annual Wage 2018

Video Creation and Editing Software

$29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

Apple Final CutPro, YouTube

$63,480 Average Annual Regional Wage

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I remember struggling with a design “problem late at night in the architecture

studio when my professor stopped by and was hesitant to be overly critical of my work. He said, ‘Something about this bothers me, but I’m not sure exactly what,’ to which he tore up my sketch and told me, ‘If it’s not working, start over, don’t fall in love with a design. Your job is going to be coming up with ideas and to be part of the creative process.’ That advice has served me well throughout my career.

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—COULTER WINN, AIA, Vice President, Design, Walt Disney Imagineering

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My father was a landscape contractor. My goal was to build upon his role and expand on it.

—JUAN PRIETO, (’17, landscape architecture), Project Designer, OJB Landscape Architecture

DESIGNING ENVIRONMENTS TO FIGHT CRIME My first internship was in 1992 with Professor Takeo Uesugi. From that internship I was able to get a job at Lifescapes International, Inc. I was a little disappointed that landscape architecture was being used to improve the lives of wealthy individuals or for tourism. I wanted to use landscape design to make an impact on communities. One of my high school friends who joined the Los Angeles Police Department told me that the city was developing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED).

I was very enthusiastic to take part in this, however, I had a difficult time obtaining a job at the City Planning Department. Disappointed, I was contemplating how to be a part of CPTED when I heard the LAPD recruitment radio ads. I thought how cool would it be to race around the City of Los Angeles with a gun and badge chasing bad guys. This was a childhood dream, plus I could get my foot in the door for CPTED as a police officer. One night, I drove to Los Angeles, took the LAPD test, and six months later, I was getting screamed at by a drill sergeant at the police academy. What had I gotten myself into? The six long years at Cal Poly Pomona and my landscape architecture degree did not prepare me for this.

I began my career with the LAPD in August of 1995. My assignments included West L.A., Hollywood, downtown, Training, Security Services, and Community Relationship. This gave me the opportunity to see L.A. from both a landscape designer and police officer point of view.

I learned that design can impact the likelihood

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of criminal activity, in buildings and outdoor environments. The layout of a development, building or open space can make people more vulnerable to crime and violence. Designing buildings and open spaces to prevent crime before it occurs will increase the quality of life. We can design a tougher environment for crime, increase public safety and reduce crime incidents.

Until last year I was a supervisor for LAPD, in charge of a unit that meets/approves with real estate developers, architects, planners, and advises them on CPTED design concepts. LAPD has the responsibility of reviewing and approving site plans for large building projects being constructed in the City of Los Angeles. We are also federally trained by the Department of Homeland Security to conduct physical security on buildings, airports, and any government facilities.

I am currently assigned to the Risk Management and Policies Division. Being in the department for 25 years, I realize that a police officer’s view of Los Angeles is unique — I think about it through the framework of its crime clusters, the entertainment industry, its freeways, its class divisions, and its race relations. I don’t even pretend to understand all that makes Los Angeles a world-renowned city and destination, but interacting with the community and urban environment has enlightened my views as a landscape designer and police officer on ways to improve the quality of life for everyone.

—SGT. DAVID TANGO (’94, landscape architecture), Risk Management and Policies Division, Los Angeles Police Department

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Cartographers and Photogrammetrists

Landscape Architects Landscape architects connect place and people through design. It’s a broad and highly creative discipline with a deep foundation in ecology and design, history and culture, context and philosophy, urban planning and horticulture. Landscape architects design, plan, conserve and restore the spaces and landscapes where we spend our public and private lives outside — parks, playgrounds, hospitals, farms, cities and gardens.

—Professor ANDREW WILCOX (‘00, landscape architecture), Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture

Annual Wage 2018

$85,985 Average Annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

Forecast

+50 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 1,100 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 4.7% 5-year Projected Growth

Collect, analyze, and interpret geographic information provided by geodetic surveys, aerial photographs, and satellite data. Research, study, and prepare maps and other spatial data in digital or graphic form for legal, social, political, educational, and design purposes. May work with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). May design and evaluate algorithms, data structures, and user interfaces for GIS and mapping systems.

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Director of Design/Creative Director

Lockwood De Forest

Director of Sustainability

Mia Lehrer

Recreation and Park Planner

Civil Engineer

Jay Griffith

Soil and Water Conservationist

Ruth Shellhorn

Garden Designer/Landscape Designer/Landscape Horticulturist

Construction Manager Architectural and Engineering Manager

Top Skills

Site engineering and construction technology Advanced software proficiency and 3D modeling Digital fabrication and rapid prototyping Drawing and model building (analog to digital) Horticulture and plant ecology Construction knowledge and building experience

Ecological Designer/Planner

Urban Ecologist

Tools and Technology Annual Wage 2018

$76,265 Average Annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

Related Occupations Computer Programmer Software Developer Systems Software Database Administrator

Project management and coordination Green infrastructure and engineering Water management and conservation

Geospatial Information Systems Technician

Forecast

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software Autodesk AutoCAD, Bentley Microstation Graphics or Photo Imaging Software Adobe Illustrator Map Creation Software ESRI ArcGIS software, GIS software Web page creation and editing software Adobe Dreamweaver

+60 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 570 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 10.9% 5-year Projected Growth

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Compliance Officers

Urban and Regional Planners Work on the pressing needs and problems arising in growing and shrinking urban areas, including housing, transportation, economic development, energy, environment and sustainability, open space, and social and economic disparities. Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of local jurisdictions for more sustainable urban futures.

—Professor DOHYUNG KIM, Chair, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Tools and Technology

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Software AutoCAD Civil 3D, Bentley MicroStation, Trimble SketchUp Pro Enterprise Resource Planning Software Accela KIVA DMS, SAP Graphics/Photo Imaging Software Adobe Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop Map Creation Software ESRI ArcGIS, GIS software Project Management Software Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint

Main Industry Employers

Architectural and Engineering Services Local Government State Government Management and Technical Consulting Services

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Transportation Engineer and Manager Architectural and Engineering Manager Logistics Analyst

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Community Development Director/Planner

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Housing Development Specialist

Robert Moses

Housing Grant Analyst

Andrés Duany

Neighborhood/Regional Planner

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Urban Design Consultant

Fred Kent Jaime Lerner

Annual Wage 2018

Dan Doctoroff

$29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

City Planner

$90,580 Average Annual Regional Wage

“When I was a kid growing up in Watts, my brother and I had a chance to ride on the old Red Car line to downtown L.A. before it was torn out to make room for automobiles.

It inspired my lifelong interest in public transportation.

Later, when I was a planning student at Cal Poly Pomona, my senior thesis was a proposal to solve L.A.’s traffic problems by building mass transit. Then I was asked to present my thesis at a conference on campus. Little did I know that one of the audience members was Tom Bradley, then an L.A. city councilman and later the mayor of L.A. Bradley was impressed with my thesis, and years later invited me to join an official delegation flying to Washington, D.C., to lobby the federal government for a transit grant. Fly to Washington? It was my first trip on an airplane. The federal government eventually decided to support a new rail system for L.A., and I felt that I had played a small part in the decision. Now, years later, I run a successful business that builds transit and airports across the country and around the world. But it all started with my senior thesis at Cal Poly Pomona.”

—EARL GALES JR. (’72, urban and regional planning), Chairman and CEO of Jenkins/Gales & Martinez Inc.

What we’re all about is quality of life. Can we shorten your time stuck in traffic?

—JOANNE PETERSON, Chief Human Capital & Development Officer, L.A. Metro

Advises employers, companies, and organizations on complying with external legal and regulatory requirements and internal policies and rules, especially relating to pollution issues involving toxic contamination of natural resources.

Tools and Technology

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Annual Wage 2018

$79,675 Average Annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regiona Living Wage

Adobe Acrobat Project Management Software Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint

Similar Job Titles Compliance Investigator

Enforcement/Toxics Program Officer

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Environmental Protection Specialist

Federal Government

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Enforcement Officer

Local Government

Waste Management Specialist

Environmental Quality Analyst

State Government Management of Companies and Enterprises Management and Technical Consulting Services

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Museum Technicians & Conservators

When I was in college, I heard a talk by a fine artist working at Caltech. I thought, ‘This is amazing.’ Then I got an internship there and later met with the director of JPL and was hired for 6 months. They knew that the things we do here are hard to communicate. The person who hired me said: ‘Go do what you’re passionate about and we’ll see what happens.’ That was 16 years ago and now I lead a studio that does everything from helping brainstorm future missions to interactive installations.

Restore, maintain, or prepare objects in museum collections for storage, research or exhibit. May work with specimens such as fossils, skeletal parts, botanicals, artifacts, textiles or art. May identify and record objects or install and arrange them in exhibits. Includes book or document conservators.

—DAN GOODS, Founder, the Studio at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Archivists

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Appraise, edit and direct safekeeping of permanent records and historically valuable documents. Participate in research activities based on archival materials.

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Annual Wage 2018

$44,710 Average annual Regional Wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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Graphics/Photo Imaging Software Adobe Photoshop Spreadsheet Software Microsoft Excel Compressed air gun, micrometers, welding torch, stripping tools, soldering iron

Annual Wage 2018

$66,180 Average Annual Regional Wage

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$29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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Document Management Software

Forensic Technician

Adobe Acrobat

Career/Technical Education Teacher

Enterprise Application Integration Software

Audio-Visual and Multimedia Collections Specialist

Extensible Markup Language XML

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THE FOUNDATION TO ENDLESS OPPORTUNITY

My life changed when I chose a difficult research topic for my senior thesis: Polynesian barkcloth. Despite working at Cal Poly Pomona’s University Library and museum internships throughout my undergraduate career, discovering academic resources about Polynesian barkcloth was an ordeal. Standing in front of the library catalog with three results, I realized that there was a lack of research about this material from my culture. I also saw an opportunity to lead and open new fields of research for the next generation of students to build upon.

From there, I felt empowered to bring my multicultural identity into academic research. I earned a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons College in 2016. Instead of writing a thesis, I created a digital collection of oral histories from tattooed Asian Americans, a work that explores the intersection of art, cultural identity, and information science. I am working as the digital collections librarian at Loyola Marymount University. I digitize artifacts, manuscripts, or rare books for preservation and access for researchers from around the world. In addition, I am a Graduate Opportunity Fellow at UCLA pursuing a second master’s degree in Asian American Studies to analyze how digital preservation could be applied to cultural memory and identity.

I am sure that every art history major has been told that their degree is useless in the real world. This is not true. Art history equips one with the ability to think critically using visual culture to explore world history, government, religion, sociology, psychology, and literature to understand expressions of humanity and culture. I believe art history gives one the key to endless opportunity.

—JESSEA YOUNG (’13, art history), Digital Collections Librarian, William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University

Curators Initiate, organize, and implement exhibitions of an artist’s creative work. Administer affairs of museums and galleries and conduct research programs. Direct instructional, research and public service activities of institutions, including art education programs and outreach to broaden the audience for art.

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+20 Total Projected Openings (2018-2023) 660 jobs Total Current Regional Employment 2.8% 5-year Projected Growth

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$54,820 Average Annual Regional wage $29,370 Average Regional Living Wage

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Acknowledgements

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WE THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR SHARING THEIR INSIGHTS FOR THIS REPORT BRUCE K. ARITA (’77, architecture), AIA, Senior Vice President and Property Loss Consulting Practice Leader, Thorton Tomasetti JONATHAN AVILA (’11, landscape architecture), RLA, ASLA, Supervising Landscape Conservation Designer, City of San Diego

PHILLIP KAUFFMAN (’08, graphic design), Senior Creative Director MICHAEL KELLY, Executive Director, Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs PHIL LONG (’82, architecture), Winemaker/Founder, Longevity Wines

PATRICK BALDWIN, ASLA, RLA, Principal, Burton Landscape Architecture

MATTHEW MACLEOD, ASLA, RLA, Principal, Burton Landscape Architecture

VINCE BERTONI, Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles FRANK BROWER (’65, landscape architecture), FASLA, RLA, Principal, Burton Landscape Architecture FRANK CLEMENTI (’86, architecture), FAIA, AIGA, Creative Director, Architecture, Rios Clementi Hale Studios

MARIA MELEANDREZ, Manager, Transportation School, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority SEAN O’MALLEY (’86, landscape architecture), ASLA, Managing Principal, SWA Group JOANNE PETERSON, Chief Human Capital and Development Officer, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

MYRIAN SOLIS CORONEL, Director of Marketing and Community Engagement, Parks California RICK DIAS, Executive Creative Director, AMP Agency

JUAN PRIETO (’17, landscape architecture), Project Designer, OJB Landscape Architecture

DILLON DIERS (’06, landscape architecture), ASLA, Managing Principal, OJB Landscape Architecture

BRIAN STATON, Associate AIA, President and CEO, HMC Architects

EARL GALES JR. (’72, urban and regional planning), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jenkins, Gales & Martinez

TONY TANG, Environmental Artist, Riot Games

DAN GOODS, Founder, the Studio at Jet Propulsion Laboratory

MATT UYEDA, Principal, Burton Landscape Architecture

HOLLY HILL, Senior Sustainability Advisor, Southern California Edison; Chair, U.S. Green Building Council, L.A. Chapter

KEVIN WILKESON (’86, architecture), AIA, Principal, HMC Architects

JOHN KALISKI, AIA, Principal, John Kaliski Architects

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SPECIAL THANKS to DANIEL T. CARNEY, Design + Planning Studio Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering, for organizing a focus group at Walt Disney Imagineering to discuss the future of design careers.

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officers. Professionals will need to learn building codes, rating systems, and reporting criteria so we have effective change in our built environment. You can’t engage in the conversation unless you understand the language.

BRUCE ARITA’s Equation on the Meaning of Life

“Southern California Country: An Island on the Land” by Carey McWilliams

Southern California Edison; Chair, U.S. Green Building Council, L.A. Chapter

“The Death and Life of American Cities”

by Jane Jacobs “Cartographic Grounds: Projecting the Landscape Imaginary” by Jill Desimini and Charles Waldheim

all started when I was in seventh grade “inItInglewood.

In junior high, students had

—PHIL LONG (’82, architecture), Winemaker & Founder, Longevity Wines; incoming President-Elect of the African American Vintners Associations

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in our business are going “toTheputchanges further pressure on designers

and builders to work together, beyond temporary collaboration in design/build projects, possibly leading to designers and builders in separate companies joining together into one business entity.

” —KEVIN WILKESON (’86, architecture), AIA, Principal, HMC Architects

—SEAN O’MALLEY, (’86, landscape architecture), ASLA, Managing Principal, SWA Group

Reading List

” —HOLLY HILL, Senior Sustainability Advisor,

to choose between wood shop or drafting.

Drafting just clicked. I was so good that I offered to do everybody else’s homework.

I love doodles. When you look at somebody’s doodles, it tells you something about them.

P = Pain

t = time

$ = money

[Happy face icon] = Happiness

RICK DIAS’ Daily Go-To List of Websites for Inspiration and Research theverge.com (the latest updates on technology) abduzeedo.com (daily design inspiration and articles) savee.it (design resource for inspiration boards) motionographer.com (great collection of the best work around motion graphics) oneminutewonder.tv (series of one-minute interviews with industry leads) dwell.com (a great variety of styles to be inspired from) theselby.com (a different approach toward interior design based on lifestyle) uncrate.com (amazing mix of updates on architecture, technology, fashion and latest trends) awwwards.com (I’m part of their jury, and I vote on six to 10 websites every day) thefwa.com (one of the most respected digital awards) —RICK DIAS, Executive Creative Director, AMP Agency

“City of Quartz” by Mike Davis “Art and the Global Economy”

by John Zarobell

Books by ENV Faculty Members

“Color Management” by John T. Drew and Sarah A. Meyer

“The Image of the City” by Kevin Lynch

“May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion” by Alison Pearlman

“Landscape Infrastructure: A Base Primer” by Pierre Belanger

“Carbon Neutral Architectural Design” by Pablo La Roche

“Artspeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present” by Robert Atkins

“The Mediterranean House”

by Lauren Weiss Bricker

“Great Streets” by Allan B. Jacobs “Robert Moses and the Fall of New York”

by Robert A. Caro “An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles: Fully Revised Sixth Edition”

by Robert Winter, David Gebhard, and Robert Inman “Earthquakes Mudslides Fires and Riots: California & Graphic Design 1936-1986”

by Louise Sandhaus “Landscape Plants for California Gardens” by Robert Perry

“Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World” by Michael Fox “Latina/o Immigrant Communities in the Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond” by Alvaro Huerta “Pasadena’s Bungalow Heaven”

by Julianna Delgado and John G. Ripley “A Guide for the Idealist”

by Richard Willson

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I was in college, I was pretty sure that “I’dWhen go into finance or accounting. My mom and

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—TONY TANG, Environmental Artist, Riot Games

COLLEGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN MICHAEL WOO, Dean (2009-2019)

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