How Much Do You Know About Landscape Architecture?

Design of outdoor public areas, landmarks, and structures:

• Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes.

• Landscape architecture is a multi-disciplinary field that incorporates aspects of urban design, architecture, geography, ecology, civil engineering, structural engineering, horticulture, environmental psychology, industrial design, soil sciences, botany, and fine arts.

• Landscape architects work on structures and external spaces in the landscape aspect of the design, while integrating ecological sustainability.

• The landscape architect can conceive the overall concept and prepare the master plan, from which detailed design drawings and technical specifications are prepared.

• The activities of a landscape architect can range from the creation of public parks and parkways to site planning for campuses and corporate office parks.

• Landscape architecture history books tend to exclude many Indigenous landscape-based designs.

• Landscape Architects are generally required to have university or graduate education from an accredited landscape architecture degree program.

• In many countries, a professional institute exists in order to protect the standing of the profession and promote its interests, and sometimes also regulate the practice of landscape architecture.

• The Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) provides accreditation of university degrees.

• Since the 1950s, the University of Manchester has been teaching landscape architecture.

• Urban planning has developed into a separate independent profession that has incorporated important contributions from other fields such as civil engineering, architecture, and public administration.

• Landscape architecture continues to develop as a design discipline and to respond to the various movements in architecture and design throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.Professional Landscape Architecture Bodies Worldwide

• The profession of landscape architecture is self-regulating in Canada, and landscape architects must complete the specified components of L.A.R.E. as a prerequisite to full professional standing.

• The Indonesian Society of Landscape Architects aims to increase the dignity of professional members of landscape architects by increasing their activity role in community service, national, and international development.

• Italy has several professions involved in landscape architecture, and the Italian Association of Professional Landscape Architects (AIAPP) is in the process of contesting a new law which gives the Architects' Association a new title of Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners and Conservationists.

• The New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects provides an education policy and an accreditation process to review education program providers with three accredited undergraduate Landscape Architecture programs in New Zealand.

• Landscape architecture in Norway was established in 1919 at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) at Ås, and the Norwegian School of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Landscape and Society is responsible for Europe's oldest landscape architecture education on an academic level.

• The Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa is a voluntary organization registered with the South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession (SACLAP), and the profession is regulated by SACLAP, established as a statutory council.

• Architects Sweden, Sveriges Arkitekter, is the collective trade union and professional organization for all architects, including landscape architects, in Sweden.

• The UK's professional body is the Landscape Institute, a chartered body that accredits landscape professionals and university courses, with fifteen accredited programs in the UK.

• In the United States, Landscape Architecture is regulated by individual state governments, and the national trade association for United States landscape architects is the American Society of Landscape Architects.