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Landscape architecture is one of the world's most important professions
Neglecting the architectures of the world's fast-changing landscapes will result in endless highways lined with endless blocks of
endless tedium - dreary expanses of housing, industry, forestry and agriculture - our natural landscapes buried under repetitive building and planting.
Instead, we should design the architecture of 'new landscapes for our new lives' (Fairbrother, N. 1970). The engineering of anti-landscapes should make way for an enlightened landscape architecture. With the death of engineer's modernism, it is time for a twenty-first century approach. See:-
20 Essays on Landscape Architecture & Urban Design + 750 illustrations.
Landscape architecture theory
Landscape architecture and garden design are separate arts with a shared and ancient heritage. (The guides to Design Theory and Design Products are therefore in the Gardens Guide section of this website). Landscape architecture is concerned with public goods and public space. Societies require landscape architectural policies for each land use category
- to conserve what has value and and to create new public goods.
See the policies for: urbanisation,
greenways, cycling,
forestry, mineral
extraction, transport,
water storage,
river reclamation,
new towns and green
towns.
The origin of landscape architecture
The name "landscape architecture" was invented
by a Scotsman in 1828. It uses the ancient skill of garden designers (to compose landform with water, vegetation and structures) and
applies this skill to the man-made landscape. As Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
wrote in The landscape of man (1975): 'It is only in the present
century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity.
We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in
history'.
Since gardens and landscape are linked disciplines, some of the
hyperlinks on the website take you back and forwards between landscape
architecture and garden design. You can click GARDENS
GUIDE (here or above) and then use the LANDSCAPE
GUIDE link to return to this page in the Landscape Architecture
Guide.
Landscape Architecture and Garden Design
Landscape architects share with garden designers a concern for
the planning and design of outdoor space. Like vets and doctors
they have similar knowledge and similar skills.
The key difference is that landscape architects normally work for
public clients (business and governmental) while garden designers
tend to work for homeowners.
The range of work undertaken by landscape architects extends from
detailed design to the broad scale landscape planning. It includes:
Landscape architecture careers
Careers and jobs differ between
landscape architecture and gardens. Landscape architecture jobs often involve
working with other professionals (engineers, planners, environmental
consultants etc). There are normal career paths from assistant to
associate to partner or director. Garden designers are more likely
to be self-employed and to work with builders and craftsmen. The
illustrations to the right are of landscape architecture.
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SITE MAP: the top navigation bar leads to the following sections
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Landscape HISTORY & THEORY: History,
Theory, Sustainability,
Books, Vitruvius,
Landscape Architecture, Manifesto,
Lanship, Mimesis,
Professional Oath, Landscape
Architecture History and Theory CD, Definitions, |
Landscape COMPUTING: CAD,
GIS, Digitalism,
Tutorials Web
Advice for Landscape Architects, Usability, Web
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Landscape CAREERS: Welcome,
Education, Distance
Learning, Jobs,
Alternative Careers, Environmental
Consultancy, Golf Course
Architecture, Voluntary Work,
Animation Jobs, Design
Juries, |
Landscape PLANNING: Definitions
Planning
Agriculture
Context theory
Cycling
EID
Forestry
Green Towns
Greenways
Landscape plans
Minerals
Parks POS
Reservoirs
Rivers
Sustainability
Transport
Urbanisation
Books on landscape planning
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Landscape Design Theory RESOURCES: Design
Objectives Ecology,
Community, Delight,
Archetypes, Design
Methods, Structuralism
& Design, Community
Design, Single Tree Principle,
Design with nature, Master Plans,
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Queen Hatshepsut's Temple is the world's oldest masterpiece of landscape
architecture
Nature in the city: Olmsted pioneered the landscape architecture of greenspace in cities.
The landscape architecture of New York as it should be
Future cities will be covered by roof
parks and gardens (a roof-garden in Tokyo) - 'landscape on architecture'
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