A guide to the skills, education, and work behind the places that shape daily life—and the people who design them.

“A compact tape measure is ideal for field visits to well-designed sites, such as Little Island in New York City. It’s ...

With the aid of intuitive, user-friendly landscape design software, exterior architects and designers can easily streamline the time-consuming practices that threaten to bog down projects. No matter ...

Nottingham City Hub. Image courtesy of Ares Landscape Architects Ltd. The landscape architecture industry’s recent movement to standardize BIM workflows is a transition quite similar to its former ...

High-speed, high-quality realistic renders, compatible with major CAD and 3D modeling software, works with ray tracing, intuitive user experience, fast learning curve, atmospheric rendering effects, ...

Many traditional home landscapes feature vast areas of under-utilized space, such as large turf grass lawns. Sustainable sites feature spaces for human enjoyment, considering opportunities to design ...

Barranca Landscape crew members ascend a steep hill overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles to prepare the land for native plants. (Courtesy Terremoto) In the spring of 2021, we published ...

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) is designed for students who seek to become a licensed professional serving the public in a variety of roles, such as site design and planning, urban ...

A three-year program for applicants who have no design or planning background leads to the fully accredited professional degree of master of landscape architecture (M.L.A.). This program is for ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s landscape architecture department marks a new era with a name change, now known as the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. Anne ...

Students earning an MLA degree at Pratt are taught to embrace an inclusive approach to design that bridges culture and nature, ecology and policy, living and built environments. With so many ...