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Stourheadin Wiltshire, England, designed by Henry Hoare(1705–1785), "the first landscape gardener, who showed in a single work, genius of the highest order"[1] Landscape architectureis the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes.[2] It involves the systematic ...
Sustainable landscape architecture is a category of sustainable design concerned with the planning and design of the built and natural environments. [ 1][ 2] The design of a sustainable landscape encompasses the three pillars of sustainable development: economic well-being, social equity and environmental protections.
Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental concerns into broad public awareness and ecological planning methods into the mainstream of landscape architecture, city planning and public policy.
Education. B.A., University of Virginia, 1993. M.L.A., Harvard University, 1997 [1] Occupation. Landscape architect. Kate Orff (born 1971) is an American landscape architect. She is the founding principal of SCAPE, a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York. She is also the director the Urban Design Program ...
For the period before 1800, the history of landscape architecture, formally landscape gardening, is largely that of master planning and garden design for manor houses, palaces and royal properties, religious complexes, and centers of government. An example is the extensive work by André Le Nôtre for King Louis XIV of France at the Palace of ...
Susan Herrington is a Vancouver-based landscape architect. She is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where she teaches in the Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design, and Architecture programs and served as the chair of Landscape Architecture (2016-2020).
Martha Schwartz. Martha Schwartz (born November 21, 1950) is an American landscape architect and educator. Schwartz is the founding principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, an architecture firm based in London, New York City, and Shanghai. She is also Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of ...
The title, "landscape architect", was first used by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York City's Central Parkin Manhattanand numerous projects of large scale both public and private. He was the founder of a firm of landscape architects who employed highly skilled professionals to design and execute aspects of projects designed under ...