Career Information Landscape Architecture Education and Career Development Thank you for contacting the American Society of Landscape Architects for information on how to become a landscape architect. Landscape architecture is a profession committed to creating healthy, enjoyable and secure places for the future. We invite you to learn about landscape architecture and consider it as your future career.
Landscape architecture combines art and science.
It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land. Landscape architecture has strong roots in the U.S., and early examples, such as Monticello are still much admired. The actual term landscape architecture became common after 1863 when Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed New York's Central Park. Today, landscape architects deal with the increasingly complex relationships between the built and natural environments. Landscape architects plan and design traditional places such as parks, residential developments, campuses, gardens, cemeteries, commercial centers, resorts, transportation facilities, corporate and institutional centers and waterfront developments.