what is landscape architect?

Answer 1

A person/profession that plans in a artistic manner to restore or rehabilitate or design an area of improved aesthetics around home or office buildings or golf courses, zoos any manner of land that needs design of the landscape.

Answer 2

A landscape architect is a person with an education in landscape architecture and whose professional work conforms to the practice of the same name. The term landscape architect is used differently because professional licenses can be sought through registration examinations.

The term landscape architect is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to landscape gardeners, landscape designers, architects, surveyors or engineers, probably due to the fact that this is a relatively recent profession in terms of licensing. Landscape architecture was not commonly recognised in developed nations as a distinct profession until the early twentieth century. Despite the efforts of landscape architects it is still not unusual for an architect to be commissioned to provide landscape architectural services.

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Answer 3

Architects design things. A landscape architect looks at an area of land and after analyzing numerous things like sunny areas, shady areas, type of soil, drainage, and most of all what the person paying wants, designs a yard.

Answer 4

designing