What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect?
Posted on November 30th, 2008 in landscape |
John M asked:
What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect? Also, how do you become a landscape architect/landscape designer?
What’s the difference between a landscape designer and a landscape architect? Also, how do you become a landscape architect/landscape designer?
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Well this is one of those questions where the answer has to be a bit vague…
A landscape designer is someone that generally only works with plants and ’softscaping’ only theoretically designing or including structures such as walls and pathways. A designer can provide you with a quite complex landscape plan.
A landscape architect is more inclined to include very detailed information on the ‘hardscaping’ specifying details about the structure of a wall or paving. An architect will provide a highly detailed landscape plan drawn to scale & including specification etc.
Add to this a landscape engineer who will add construction detail & absolute specifications (e.g. - pier holes to be 300mm wide by 500mm deep with 100mm bed of 20mm clean drainage aggregate in the base etc etc)
Soooo… a landscape designer may well be a landscape architect & vice versa.
It could also be said that all landscape architects are landscape designers but not all designers are architects…
Hope this helps
Some landscape designers like to imply that they’re landscape architects, even going so far as to state that they provide “landscape architectural services”.Landscape architects must qualify for the title. They normally have either a bachelor’s or master’s degree in landscape architecture along with several years of experience in a design firm, and they’ve passed a nationally standardized five-part licensure test.