Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes landscape design; site planning; storm-water management; erosion control; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; visual resource management; green infrastructure planning and provision; and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design; all at varying scales of design, planning and management. A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a landscape architect.
The Journal of Landscape Architecture is the only periodical landscape architectural publication of its kind in India.
Garden art has a long tradition in India, experiencing its heyday in the Mughal era. At that time the construction of gardens was used to mark out places of beauty or religious significance and to exert territorial control. A study of the history of Indian landscape clearly indicates that the central feature of pre-colonial Indian landscape design was its complementary relationship with nature and an experiential aesthetics
The first Master?s programme in landscape architecture in India was established forty years ago at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. Given the fact that post-graduate programmes currently exist only in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, and Pune, only about seventy Master?s degree holders in landscape architecture enter the job market per year. The professional association, the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA), has existed for a mere ten years.
Now it is certainly important to place landscape architects in the public sector, i.e. within teams for city development plans, open space planning, regional plans, and infrastructural developments, domains that are more or less unexplored so far.
In most cases, architects are the project leaders, but landscape architects are more and more often hired as part of the project team. While previously the question was about why a landscape architect was needed at all, nowadays the question asked by clients is: who is your landscape architect? Accordingly, most commissions for landscape architects come from architects.
Landscape architects must earn at least a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, and many hold master's degrees. Most states require licensing, which calls for education, experience and at least one certification examination.
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Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes landscape design; site planning; storm-water management; erosion control; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; visual resource management; green infrastructure planning and provision; and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design; all at varying scales of design, planning and management. A practitioner in the profession of landscape architecture is called a landscape architect.
The Journal of Landscape Architecture is the only periodical landscape architectural publication of its kind in India.
Garden art has a long tradition in India, experiencing its heyday in the Mughal era. At that time the construction of gardens was used to mark out places of beauty or religious significance and to exert territorial control. A study of the history of Indian landscape clearly indicates that the central feature of pre-colonial Indian landscape design was its complementary relationship with nature and an experiential aesthetics
The first Master?s programme in landscape architecture in India was established forty years ago at the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi. Given the fact that post-graduate programmes currently exist only in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, and Pune, only about seventy Master?s degree holders in landscape architecture enter the job market per year. The professional association, the Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA), has existed for a mere ten years.
Now it is certainly important to place landscape architects in the public sector, i.e. within teams for city development plans, open space planning, regional plans, and infrastructural developments, domains that are more or less unexplored so far.
In most cases, architects are the project leaders, but landscape architects are more and more often hired as part of the project team. While previously the question was about why a landscape architect was needed at all, nowadays the question asked by clients is: who is your landscape architect? Accordingly, most commissions for landscape architects come from architects.
Landscape architects must earn at least a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture, and many hold master's degrees. Most states require licensing, which calls for education, experience and at least one certification examination.
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