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Maybe you have a pool or patio project that's bigger than you can handle, and you need to contact a professional. Perhaps you or a relative love to work with plants, along with designing and building things so much, that one of you wants to pursue an education in landscape architecture or design.

So, what is the difference between landscape architects and landscape or garden designers? Apparently, more than you may realize.

To legally call yourself a landscape architect, you must have a bachelor's and/or master's degree in landscape architecture from a university and be licensed by the state in order to design and work on landscape projects. Traditionally, they attend colleges accredited by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and have passed the required exams to become licensed. A good and reputable landscape architect has experience or has the training to work with challenging issues in both commercial and residential sites, including:

Licensed landscape architects plan and design public outdoor spaces, such as parks, campuses, gardens, cemeteries, commercial centers, resorts, transportation facilities, and waterfront developments. They also design and plan the restoration of natural places disturbed by humans such as wetlands, stream corridors, mined areas, and forested land. An education in and respect for historic landscapes and cultural resources allows landscape architects to work on preservation planning projects for national, state, and local historic outdoor sites and areas.

Landscape architects will be employed in private, public, and academic organizations.

The primary distinction between landscape architects and landscape designers is that designers usually work on smaller residential projects. While some landscape designers may have training equivalent to a landscape architectespecially if they have an undergraduate-or-higher degree in landscape architecture they do not have the state license, which is a requirement.

Some landscape designers are self-taught, but most have taken courses at a college, university, through an extension or certificate program, or online. In other words, you can't suddenly wake up one day and just decide to call yourself a landscape designer.

Most garden designers work with the soft stuffplants. Some landscape or garden designers may have experience withhardscape, especially in drought-prone regions (like California and Nevada), where pebbles and bark are used as often as succulents and natives. But to do any actual earth-moving construction, wall building, or electrical work, a licensed landscape contractor needs to be brought into the project.

When you consult a landscape designer, you will have a discussion or interview about the project. Usually, the designer will show up at your home, look at the yard, take photos, and ask about preferences in plants, garden maintenance, budget, etc. The designer will then create a plan view drawing and plant list. Depending on how the designer works, he might visit local nurseries with you, make suggestions or help you shop for materials and furnishings, and do actual plant placement. From there, she will make suggestions for another landscaping contractor or professional to do the physical work, which might include excavating an existing garden and hardscape, building patios and decks, and installing plants.

The group, the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD), was incorporated in 1989. It encourages thatmembers adhere to a code of professional standards, actively participate in continuing education, and stay current with state-of-the-art developments and trends in the landscape design field. A certification program is offered to members and is based on built or completed projects that provide professional recognition to designers who can pass a peer review program. Through its website, the APLD offers consumers access to trained designers in their region who are members of the APLD.

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Landscape architecture, the development and decorative planting of gardens, yards, grounds, parks, and other planned green outdoor spaces. Landscape gardening is used to enhance nature and to create a natural setting for buildings, towns, and cities. It is one of the decorative arts and is allied to architecture, city planning, and horticulture.

A brief treatment of landscape architecture follows. For full treatment, see garden and landscape design.

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Which of the following was a feature of many 18th-century European gardens?

Landscape architects begin with the natural terrain and enhance, re-create, or alter existing landforms. Garden generally connotes a smaller, more intensively cultivated area, frequently created around a domestic building or other small structure. Landscape denotes a larger area such as a park, urban area, campus, or roadside.

Trees, bushes, shrubs, hedges, flowers, grasses, water (lakes, streams, ponds, and cascades), and rocks are used to alter or create a pleasing natural setting. Such artificial devices as decks, terraces, plazas, pavement, fences, gazebos, and fountains are also used. The importance of man-made components relative to natural components varies according to the designer, the purpose of the particular site, and the prevailing culture and fashion.

Garden and landscape designs can vary conceptually between classical/symmetrical and natural/romantic, formality and informality, utility and pleasure, and private and public. An enclosed patio garden with tubs, baskets of plants, and paving contrasts with the large natural garden popular in 18th-century England, where man-made elements were less visible.

A garden or landscapes aesthetic aspects include form, plants, colour, scent, size, climate, and function. Gardens need continual maintenance in order to keep weeds and other unwanted natural phenomena from asserting themselves. Gardens change with the seasons and climate and with their plants cycle of growth and decay.

Historically, gardens have been designed more for private than for public pleasure. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans each evolved their own characteristic garden designs. Hadrians Villa, near Tivoli, Italy, contains a vast pleasure garden that had great influence on subsequent designs. The Italian Renaissance developed formal gardens in which the outdoor landscape was considered an extension of a building. The 16th-century Villa dEste at Tivoli is a remarkable example.

In the 17th century Andr le Ntre, influenced by the Italian Renaissance, created for Louis XIV of France gardens at Versailles in which symmetry, vistas, and grandiose fountains predominated. Such a design was much copied and perhaps matched human dominance over natural landscape. These classical gardens are beautiful but immaculate, formal, hard, elaborate, and logical, with straight lines, circles, trees, and hedges tamed into geometric shapes and with compartmentalized beds for flowers. They are extensions of contemporary architecture.

In 18th-century England the Earl of Burlington and the landscape gardeners William Kent, Lancelot Capability Brown, and Humphrey Repton brought about a change whereby a natural philosophy of garden design began to recommend the irregular and informal. Late in the century artificial ruins and grottoes were cultivated as picturesque accessories. Famous examples include the gardens at Rousham, Stowe, and Stourhead. In the 19th century in the United States the leading figure in garden and landscape design was Frederick Law Olmsted.

In the East a completely separate tradition of landscape gardening evolved, starting in China and spreading via Korea to Japan. The Oriental attitude to the garden was closely linked to religious traditions. The garden was designed to induce a certain state of mind and enhance a distinctive perception. Nature predominated over man-made symmetry. Rocks were especially important and in Japanese gardens were religious symbols. The scale tended to be smaller than in Western gardens, with emphasis on tiny details. Water, trees, and bridges were vital elements. The Japanese tea garden was supposed to induce a suitable mood in the person approaching a teahouse to participate in the tea ceremony. Oriental landscape gardening, particularly Japanese, has exerted considerable influence on modern Western designs.

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Phillip Fernberg

MLA 20192018 Olmsted Scholar Nominee

Phillip Fernberg, 2018 Olmsted Scholar Nominee, chose to pursue landscape architecture because the practice allows him to literally make apositive (and hopefullybeautiful) impact on the world!

Phillip was nominated by the landscape architecture faculty to be an Olmsted Scholar because of his impressive resume and character, according to Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Director Mark Boyer. The Landscape Architecture FoundationsOlmsted Scholars Programrecognizes and supports students with exceptional leadership potential who are using ideas, influence, communication, service, and leadership to advance sustainable design and foster human and societal benefits.

Phillip describes himself as an aspiring designer, philomath, urbanist, and travel junkie. Though he has interests in many areas, his overall focus has always been to make a lasting impact through his work. As of late I have become fascinated with urban design,ecological restoration, and plants in particular, he said.

He grew up in Murrieta, California. He has a BA in Latin American Studies with minors in Scandinavian Studies and Urban Planning from Brigham Young University. He worked in the entertainment and hospitality industries before coming to LSU to study landscape architecture.

I chose LSU because of the people! He said. Its not often that you find a program where everyone you meet is approachable and genuinely cares about your success. The Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture embodies such a community.

At LSU Phillip has worked on projects including Reacquaintance: LSU Quad Redesign, a proposal to reacquaint the three-acre space on campus with student needs, after site inventory and analysis that included student interviews to inform the recommendations. He also worked on the Catfish Square: The Re-Emergence of the Street Market in Baton Rouge proposal that reimagines a vacant lot as a neighborhood street market. View Phillips online portfolio.

Phillip has diverse interests and experiences outside of his scholarly pursuits. He loves surfing a nod to his southern California roots. He worked for a number of years as an entertainer, playing music for restaurants, character performing at Disney World, and hosting events aboard passenger ships for Princess Cruises, to name a few. Thats my party trick I guess? He laughed.

In the future he hopes to make a career as a design generalist he doesnt intend to limit himself to just one field. Whether its residential design at a private firm, regional planning for the National Park Service, or managing international development projects abroad, I want to work in every sector on every possible type of project at every possible scale.

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Roof, covering of the top of a building, serving to protect against rain, snow, sunlight, wind, and extremes of temperature. Roofs have been constructed in a wide variety of formsflat, pitched, vaulted, domed, or in combinationsas dictated by technical, economic, or aesthetic considerations.

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The vault is a parallel series of arches used to form a roof, the most common form being a cylindrical or barrel vault. Vaults came into their greatest prominence in Gothic architecture. The dome is a hemispherical structure that can serve as a roof. Domes have surmounted some of the most grandiose buildings of ancient Roman, Islamic, and post-medieval Western architecture. Vaults and domes do not require a supporting framework directly below the vaulting because they are based on the principle of the arch, but flat and gable roofs frequently require internal supports such as trusses or other bracing. A truss is a structural member that is composed of a series of triangles lying in a single plane. Until the later 19th century, such supporting frameworks were made of wooden beams, sometimes in highly complicated systems. Steel and reinforced concrete have for the most part replaced such heavy wooden support systems, and such materials moreover have enabled the development of new and dramatic roof forms. Thin-shell roofs using concrete reinforced with steel rods can produce domes and barrel vaults that are only three inches thick yet span immense spaces, providing unobstructed interior views for stadiums and amphitheatres. In cantilevered roofs, a roof made of thin precast concrete is suspended from steel cables that are mounted on vertical towers or pylons of some sort. The geodesic dome is a modern structural variant of the dome form.

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