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Career Discovery: Landscape Architecture

What do Landscape Architects do?

Green roofs are just one type of project landscape architects work on.

Look at your community. How did the parks, residential developments, campuses, shopping centers, gardens, transportation facilities, and, trails and bike paths take shape? Planning, designing, and land use management is the work of landscape architects.

Landscape architects analyze, plan, design, and manage the natural and built environment. They are also problem solvers–they analyze the impact of a proposed project to be sure that it benefits the environment.

Maybe it's a career for you

Interested in the environment and art? Landscape architecture is a profession that blends creativity and science.

Our , aimed at students in middle school and high school, explains what a landscape architect does and how to become one. With a background that features the evolution of Columbus Circle in New York City from sketch to reality, the website shows how landscape architects creatively solve complex urban and environmental issues through design. Columbus Circle was redesigned by OLIN, a landscape architecture firm, and received a 2006 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Honor Award in the General Design category.

The website also includes two videos — and — featuring landscape architects and designers on why landscape architecture is the perfect career for art- and science-oriented students.