What is Landscape Architecture ?

The landscape is our basic resource: it is where we live and work and play and engage with others.

Landscape Architects are trained to look at the landscape as a whole, to create attractive, sustainable and funtional places for people to live healty and fulfilling lives, and to realise their dreams.

What does Landscape Architecture mean for you? Here are some other people’s views:

“Depending on the scope of the project for clients, ranging from a local developer to the federal government, landscape architects may plan the entire arrangement of a site, including the location of buildings, grading, stormwater management, construction and planting.” ASLA.

“Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.” Wikipedia.

“Landscape architecture is one of the most diversified of the design professions. Landscape architects design the built environment of neighborhoods, towns and cities while also protecting and managing the natural environment, from its forests and fields to rivers and coasts. Members of the profession have a special commitment to improving the quality of life through the best design of places for people and other living things.” ASLA.

“If you can see the sky, it’s mine”. Kathryn Gustafson, Landscape Architect.

“Landscape architects create healthy, safe, and beautiful outdoor places for everyone. As members of a STEM profession, they bring science and design together to make our communities better places to live, work, and play.” ASLA

“Landscape architecture combines environment and design, art and science. It is about everything outside the front door, both urban and rural, at the interface between people and natural systems. The range of ways in which landscape architects work is staggering. From master-planning Olympic sites to planning and managing landscapes like national parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty to designing the public squares and parks that we all use, landscape architecture nurtures communities and makes their environment human and livable.

Landscape architecture is not just the profession of the future — but the profession for a better future.” IFLA Europe