Creating Beauty Blog
Why create beauty?
April 6th, 2009
It's a question that is especially timely today given our feelings of uncertainty due to the global financial crisis, climate change, the tenuous state of imbalance we have in our relationships with the natural world or any number of things that give us a feeling of "dis-ease". ... [ MORE ]
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April is World Landscape Architecture Month
Landscape Architects across Canada are gearing up to celebrate their profession along with landscape architects across the world. April was chosen in concert with Earth Day on ...More
April is World Landscape Architecture Month
Landscape Architects across Canada are gearing up to celebrate their profession along with landscape architects across the world. April was chosen in concert with Earth Day on April 22 and the April 27 birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of the landscape architecture profession in North America. To see just some of the celebration events planned across the country go to:
Landscape Architecture : Garden Design : Site Planning : Project Management
Landscape Architecture is the profession committed to the creation of meaningful and vital outdoor places and to the sustainable management of our environment.
“What, then, should the term landscape architecture be taken to mean? It will be understood here to mean the art - or the science, if preferred - of arranging land, together with the spaces and objects upon it, for safe, efficient, healthful, pleasant human use.”
Norman T. Newton, Design on the Land, 1971
Garden Design is the art and process of designing creating plans for layout and planting of gardens and landscapes. Most professional garden designers are trained in principles of design and in horticulture, and have an expert knowledge and experience of using plants. Some professional garden designers are also landscape architects, a more formal level of training that usually requires an advanced degree and often a state license.
Site Planning refers to the organizational stage of the landscape design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, privacy, security, shelter, land drainage, and other factors. This is done by arranging the compositional elements of landform, planting, water, buildings and paving and building.
Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.