Talk:Landscape architecture

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It would be best to do the merge the other way around: merge 'landscape architects' with the section 'landscape architecture'. The profession/discipline in it self should not be put second to the practicioners.

You have a hyperlink to "garden design". But it is just a redirect to this page. --Jmccorm 19:24, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

I think the use of the terms 'Landscape Gardening', 'Landscape Design' and 'Garden Design' need to be better defined in relation to Landscape Architecture. They all overlap but they are all (with the possible exception of landscape design) different things. Supergolden 15:31, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Landscape Architects and Works

I took out the section headings added by User:70.56.89.11 earlier today. We already have a List of landscape architects. I'm not sure a list of examples would be that helpful, but I think it should be on a separate page if someone wants to start one. :: Supergolden 13:10, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Registration/Licensure

I think there is a section here that is really off-topic: "In many countries, the practice of landscape architecture is regulated by a professional institute, in order to protect the standing of the profession and promote its interests, but in the United States, this does not include fluency in the English language and illegal immigrants are most common as landscapers."

First, English fluency is neither the intent nor purpose of registration or licensure of professional landscape archtitects in any country (especially those that do not use english as a predominat language).

Second, due to the requirements of university education and more specifically of the CLARB national exam (including some intense legal knowledge), it would be impossible for a person not fluent in english to pass the US licensure test. The test is not conducted in any language other than english.

Third, if you are trying to make the political point that english should be legally required to be the preferred tongue of the USA, this point should perhaps be made in a different location.

Finally, although a great many landscape contractors (the distinction with not landscape architects is not made) are non english-speaking and non-american by birth (some undoubtedly illegal) it is untrue and unfair to suggest that they comprise predominantly illegal immigrants. There are a large number of opportunities for foreign workers to legally gain employment in the USA. To assume or suggest that they are illegal is "tarring them all with the same brush". Again please place opinionated comments about immigration where they belong, not in this location.

Thanks for flagging this up, must have missed it getting snuck in again. Nonsense about Illegal Immigrants and rakes vs. leafblowers is periodically added to this page by vandal(s). Whoever is doing this please read comments above and desist. This page isnt even about landscape contractors anyway - I dont know any landscape architects who use rakes or leafblowers. :: Supergolden 12:43, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
It looks good to me. I will add it back. It is clear you believe by your constant reversions that this is your personal article. Do you own it in some way? Are you Jimbo? No. Stop adding your point of view! FurryiamIAM 14:35, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry FurryIAM, I am not Jimbo, and I do not see this as 'my page', I just dont want people adding nonsense to it. The fact that 'illegal immigrants are most common as landscapers', even if true, is irrelevant here because 1) this is an article about landscape architects, not landscapers, 2)Fluency in the English language is not a prerequisite for any profession, and 3)'illegal immigrants' are not the most common members of the profession of landscape architecture, even just in the US. Additionally, even if I am wrong on all the abovepoints, I think a statement like this needs a reference. This 'illegal immigrants are most common as landscapers' sentence is an irrelevant POV in this article. I have left it in for now, until we, and the other people who edit this page, can agree :: Supergolden 21:41, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the response on the anti-immigrant landscape contractor stuff (the first comments on this topice were mine (I wasn't logged in at the time). Those pesky vandals. I have modified this section to remove the offending statement and make it a little more international. I'm guessing that whoever initially wrote the section is from the UK (Apologies if not)? Having experience both sides of the "pond", I wanted to highlight that the operation of the UK Landscape Institute and the ASLA is quite different (membership in the ASLA is not required for licensure, and they do not regulate). As UK, Canada and the US tend to dominate these discussions, it would be nice to get some input from other nations. --Lardpants 21:13, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Too true Lardpants, and thanks for your (positive) input :: Supergolden 10:20, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I read the article and it sounds like every illegal immigrant who does lawn work, calls themselves a landscaper, and can't speak English has trained as long as a doctor. This is simply not true. Lardpants, do you have proof that these people went to college for 10 years to trim bushes and mow lawns? Tempoo 23:54, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
This article should not maintain the illusion that every gardener went to school for 10 years
This article is not about gardeners :: Supergolden 13:33, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, let's make this clear. Landscaper redirects to this article. Well, okay. My mistake. Tempoo 22:38, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

The following two sentences (from two different sections of the otherwise great article) may be accurate but, as written, they read as inconsistent: "The term "landscape architecture" was invented by Gilbert Laing Meason in 1828 and was first used as a professional title by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1863.... The term "landscape architecture" was then taken up by JC Loudon and AJ Downing." funkendub 16:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge Proposal

Please discuss this merger suggestion.

see here. [[User:Claudiala|Claudia]] 17:50, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


'Landscape architecture' is the profession and 'landscape architect' is the title of those that practice. The merger makes sense. Treekiller 02:31, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

I strongly disagree (see Talk:Landscape architect). I think many sections relating to practice and the professional should move to Landscape architect and the remainder expanded for the discipline- much like Architect and Architecture. Mariokempes 00:34, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Landscape recognition

I was looking for what "landscape recognition" means, and thought that may-be this page should mention the term.80.235.68.14 16:12, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Product placement?

Does anyone else think it's inappropriate that Aquascapes, Inc. is listed under "See also"? Can anyone just throw their company's name on that list? Bjfewell 20:36, 21 October 2007 (UTC)