Landscape architecture encompasses the analysis, planning, design, management, and stewardship of the natural and built environments.
Types of projects include:
- Academic campuses
- Conservation
- Corporate and commercial
- Gardens and arboreta
- Historic preservation and restoration
- Hospitality and resorts
- Institutional
- Interior landscapes
- Land planning
- Landscape art and earth sculpture
- Monuments
- Parks and recreation
- Reclamation
- Residential
- Security design
- Streetscapes and public spaces
- Therapeutic gardens
- Transportation corridors and facilities
- Urban design
- Water resources.
Landscape architects have advanced education and professional training and are licensed in 49 states. In order to practice landscape architecture in California, a landscape architect must have a state license number from the Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC), under the purview of the California Architects Board, within the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
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