Landscape Architecture consists in planning, designing and managing outdoor areas and the landscape, at various levels of intervention.

What is the Landscape?

According to the European Landscape Convention, a Landscape is an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors.

What is a Landscape Architect?

According to EFLA (European Federation of Landscape Architects), the Landscape Architect plans and designs urban and rural land-scapes in space and time, based on natural features and historic and cultural values.
Guido Ferrara, in an article published in theissue n. 22 of AIAPP (June 1997) defines a Landscape artist as a technician specialized in designing, planning, designing and managing outdoor areas at every scale.

Origins of the term Landscape Architect:

1858 - the title of Landscape Architect - or Landscaper - was first publicly attributed to Frederick Law Olmstead (creator of the famous Central Park in New York City) and to Calvert Vaux.

1900 - the first academic course in Landscape Architecture was held at Harvard University.

Landscape Architecture Now and Future needs.

2003 – During the opening remarks of one of the first editions of Barcelona’s International Biennial of Landscape Architecture, Jordi Bellmunt stated: “Landscape architecture is going beyond the mere designing of parks and gardens. A new generation of commissions linked to complex environmental issues, the future of our countrysides and cities, and the definition of or research into new forms of planning instruments offer significant and interesting possibilities.”