About the Profession

Landscape Architecture encompasses the analysis, planning, design, management and stewardship of the natural built environments.

Types of projects include:

  • Residential
  • Parks and recreation
  • Monuments
  • Urban design
  • Streetscapes and public spaces
  • Transportation corridors and facilities
  • Gardens and arboreta
  • Security design
  • Hospitality and resorts
  • Institutional
  • Academic campuses
  • Therapeutic gardens
  • Historic preservation and restoration
  • Reclamation
  • Conservation
  • Corporate and commercial
  • Landscape art and earth sculpture
  • Interior landscapes

Landscape Architects have advanced education and professional training and are licensed in 50 states.

--American Society of Landscape Architects