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2. Landscape architecture - Wikipedia

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   Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. [ 2 ] It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for construction and human use, investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and ...

3. Garfield Park Conservatory - Wikipedia

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   Garfield Park Conservatory, located in Garfield Park in Chicago, is one of the largest greenhouse conservatories in the United States.Often referred to as "landscape art under glass", the Garfield Park Conservatory occupies approximately 4.5 acres (18,000 m 2) inside and out and contains a number of permanent plant exhibits incorporating specimens from around the world, including some cycads ...

4. Jens Jensen (landscape architect) - Wikipedia

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   A young Jensen. Jens Jensen was born near Dybbøl, Denmark, on September 13, 1860, to a wealthy farming family. For the first nineteen years of his life he lived on his family's farm, which cultivated his love for the natural environment. When he was four years old, during the Second War of Schleswig in 1864, Jensen watched the Prussians invade ...

5. University of Illinois Department of Landscape Architecture

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   The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign was among the first institutions in the nation to offer an educational program in landscape architecture, with a degree program in place by 1907. [1] It is the only accredited program in the state of Illinois to offer all three landscape degree options, BLA, MLA and Ph.D.

6. Illinois Institute of Technology - Wikipedia

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   Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940. The university has programs in architecture, business, communications, design ...

7. Landscape architect - Wikipedia

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   A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture. The practice of landscape architecture includes: site analysis, site inventory, site planning, land planning, planting design, grading, storm water management, sustainable design, construction specification, and ensuring that all plans meet the current ...