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A landscape architect is someone who practices landscape architecture. Regulations of the profession vary by country and state. Regulations of the profession vary by country and state. The terminology has evolved to include those once known as landscape gardeners , landscape or garden designers , architects , surveyors , or civil engineers .
Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) [1] was an English gardener and landscape architect, a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux.
Knut Adolf Bovin (1853–1926), Swedish gardener, landscape architect, landscape gardener, publicist and writer on gardening; Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), English horticulturalist, plantsman and writer; Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783), English landscape architect; Toby Buckland (born 1969), English gardener, broadcaster and ...
The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.
Pages in category "American landscape architects" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 250 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Landscape architects are practitioners of landscape architecture.The List of landscape architects is organised by period and region. (NOTE: The designation landscape architect is a modern occupational name (post—late 19th century), that is applied anachronistically here to landscape and garden designers of all periods, practicing in the many centuries before the 1890s.)
James Corner (born 1961) is a landscape architect and theorist whose works exhibit a focus on "developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism." His designs of note include Fresh Kills Park on Staten Island and the High Line in Manhattan , and Domino Park in Brooklyn , all in New York City .