Why do students in design school create marketable but unrealistic proposals when our job is to design places that ought to be built one day? Design studio culture shuts students inside and away from intermingling with people unlike themselves. Design school is all about selling your idea, no matter how bad it would be in reality. Yet with my diploma in hand, I am still pondering about what it means to practice as a landscape architect. Last July, I finished four years of design education where I emerged with a B.A. Students are not Taught to Understand the Real Practice of the Profession Working as a planner is a decision-making position but land uses can be better regulated and revived using the spatial design knowledge and skills we fundamentally possess. Landscape architects need to assert themselves as designers of all public infrastructures. As Mark Hough has rightly stated in his article, landscape architects “ have had a tougher time finding seats at the table alongside planners and architects when broader planning decisions are being made.” ASLA has also questioned this statement back in 2012. There may be a general inferiority complex within the profession. Landscape Architects Fail to Pursue Bigger Decision-making Roles The vigorous and sensitive nature of our work means landscape architects are capable of being the most adaptable and least appreciated.
ALICE AN LANDSCAPE ARCH PROFESSIONAL
Sustainable and resilient modes of thinking demand that landscape architects lead the way but as landscape “stewards,” are we having much of an impact? Frankly, I am concerned that our respective professional organizations are not doing an effective job at getting the word out about who we are and what we do. Yet I still find myself explaining that we do not just do garden design. There are now so many professional organizations that represent landscape architects nationally and worldwide, from ASLA in the U.S, LI in the U.K., AILA in Australia to IFLA Europe and IFLA World. It has been about 150 years since the profession has been recognized (if you recall the mid-nineteenth century establishment of its identity). It is time to get over the fact that landscape architecture is a relatively new or young profession. Our Professional Organizations are not Doing Enough to Promote the Profession It has never been a better time to now pause, take a step back, and look at the profession with a critical eye. The accumulated development of the profession has also made landscape architecture vulnerable, for example, to the influence of popular trends and culture. So much so that landscape architects have coined themselves as “ Stewards of the Land”. Since 1863, when Fredrick Law Olmsted adopted the title “landscape architect,” the profession has digressed into several areas of expertise from landscape planning, to management, to design, which can be further divided into areas of conservation, science, the arts, and many other applications. and landscape architecture came out with one of the highest projected growth rates of 20%. In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts, NEC, predicted future job prospects for several artistic occupations through to 2018 within the U.S.
In current times, we cannot deny that landscape architecture is indeed a growing profession. Article by Win Phyo – In this article, we take a closer look at landscape architecture today and investigate just what is wrong with this profession.
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