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