2026 RRSLA Internship Blog

  Land Collective: Arts + Technicality 2.6.2026

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great start to your internships these past few weeks. I began mine on January 12th, and so far it has been an amazing experience. I’m currently interning at OJB, and I already feel like I’ve touched almost every software possible since being here like Rhino, Lumion, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, and the list goes on. During my first week, I worked on rendering a Photoshop plan, which took forever! The site had a lot of historical elements, and I also had to tie in new design ideas for a really cool resort project near Los Angeles. Since then, I’ve done some diagramming, CAD sections, and a lot of process work moving from AutoCAD into Rhino and then into Lumion. One thing that has really surprised me is the variety of projects I’ve been able to work on. I’ve touched everything from hospitality and mixed-use developments to parks and public spaces. Everyone in the office is super nice and always willing to help, which is great because I defini...

   Somehow it has already been three and a half weeks of internship... Eileen and I are actually both here at DDG in BR and it has been great so far. We really hit the ground running and were working on projects about four hours into the first day. I already feel like I have been able to work on a wide range of projects in various stages of the design process!    Setup kinda nice    Eileen and I are responsible for weekly construction progress surveys / site visits at Greenwood Community Park. My main goal here is getting the contractors to let me drive any form of heavy machinery👹.                The office culture is pretty relaxed. It is cool to be in a multidisciplinary office and get to see how other professions contribute to projects. I have been able to do a good bit of planting design so far and I hope to continue to. Had the opportunity to work on a native focused site in Texas. Really enjoyed researchi...

Hey guys! Hope all is well at school or on your internships! Some background about where I am working for the currently, Wenk is a landscape architecture office based in Denver that works on a huge range of projects, from more urban park spaces to campus planning and tons of wetland restoration. So far, I’ve been lucky enough to work on six different projects, which has made every day feel different and exciting. A big chunk of my time has been spent on two master plan renderings. I have also been working on a community outreach presentation for a local park 2 mins from my house! Looking forward to drawing concepts this  upcoming Friday ! They’ve been both tedious and oddly relaxing at the same time. During my first week, I also got to go on a couple of site visits, which was a great way to dive in. The first visit focused on tree mitigation, where we marked which trees were being removed for a future trail and documented their condition. The next site visit was at CU Boulder’s sop...

My first couple of weeks here in Cary have gone really well. I'm enjoying the colder climate, although the ice on the roads sometimes poses a problem. Our office has a hybrid schedule, though, and we're remote Monday and Friday, so we just stay at home on bad weather days. The culture here is great. Everyone is pretty heavy on the sarcasm so I get to have a sense of humor at work :D We do pretty much exclusively public work here, with a lot of schools and a lot of fire stations. I sketched concepts for one on my first day. The landscape was interesting because the building spans two levels that are offset from each other, and it's dug into the side of a hill. They've also had me doing a lot of CAD work, putting together construction documents and packaging them for presentations. This office has a ton of its own LISP routines to automate their CAD work and it's been fun to experiment with that and make my own additions to it, which got the engineers in the office su...

 First two week went quite well, started on the 12th as well, got to enjoy dinner with Jack as he's working at STIMSON,    Started the week with on boarding to a competition project for the University of Buffalo, worked the whole week on rhino and diagrams, and was getting on boarded to the Moakley Project, had a very short due on the UoB project, worked for a good amount of time, got to enjoy Saturdays, went to the museum of arts, and ate lobster roll. Had to work on Sunday and Monday to push deadlines but I'm getting comp time for it thou so all good. Deadline was due on Wednesday so pushed that and did some graphics for the competition, got it done Wednesday afternoon, got Friday off and only worked Thursday half day on finishing and cleaning up boards and graphics.    Got to reunion with Yanchi on the weekend. Wonderful city, loving it, food is to kill for, and commute is decently easy without a car, miss my cats but life been good.

I guess I'll be brave for once and post first lol. I also have nothing to do right now and everyone around me are in meetings I wasn't invited to 😞. I started at OJB early last month, January 12, as I imagine a lot of y'all have as well. My first couple days consisted of onboarding paperwork, software setup, and getting to meet the rest of the team. Chandler, my desk buddy and the main guy who finds me things to do, had me update some rhino models and Lumion renderings to begin with. The highlight of my first week though had to be making it onto the website. I felt way too proud of that. You gotta scroll all the way down to the bottom to find me 😂.  I began some real work doing grading studies for a clock/art installation/stage/tower/overlook over at the University of Houston. Thank God for Hayden or else I would've embarrassed myself for not knowing basic grading 👀. I modeled the thing like 15 different times as the team tried out new ideas of how to fit it into the...