LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: What, Why, When, How, Where, Who and What Next?

by Tom Turner

Regarding landscape architecture as one of the world’s most important professions, Tom Turner asks and answers seven questions:
Q. WHAT is landscape architecture?
A The art of composing landform, water and plants with buildings and pavements to make good places.
Q When did landscape architecture originate?
A The art is at least 12,000 years old and as an organised profession dates from the second half of the nineteenth century.
Q How are good landscapes designed?
A By using good design methods
Q Why does society need landscape architects?
A The demand for what Jellicoe called a ‘collective landscape’ makes landscape architecture one of the world's most important professions.
Q Where do landscape architects create public goods?

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 28, 2017

About the author

Tom Turner is an English landscape architect and garden historian. He was educated at the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh and studied landscape architecture under Frank Clarke.Tom edits the Gardenvisit.com website http://www.gardenvisit.com/.