About Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is a field of knowledge combining both art and science. landscape architecture produces an arrangements of forms, colors, textures and masses in outdoors by combining both natural landscape element and man-made landscape element, in any way horizontally or vertically, and takes account of many activities within the environment. We use the knowledge of landscape architecture to create enjoyable environment which is practical  and artistic. It makes the environment more beautiful, harmony, balance, well-organized, and orderly. In the end the environment will satisfy the needs of human being and all of living creatures live in it, both spiritual and physical.

Much of landscape architecture's theoritical development has drawn heavily upon other disciplines as architecture. One important area of  differentiation, however, is the central  importance of the aesthetic and symbolic configuration of geological, and biological forms and processes, and their ecological interrelationships. 

According to Garret Eckbo, An American landscape architect - notable for his 1950 book,-Landscape for Living, he believes that landscape architecture could and should combine both art and science. He said that e good theory of landscape design, then, must be a theory of form as well of function. It must be artistic as well as practical, in order to produce the maximum for those who will experience work influenced by it.

Landscape architecture must be distinguished from landscape design. A landscape architect possesses a higher level of skill, usually reinforced by a degree, than is possessed by a landscape designer. Landscape architecture calls for a broader skill base and sometimes carries greater responsibility. for example, a city or town ask a landscape architect to design a park. A landscape designer, by contrast, is more likely to work on residential landscaping than on landscaping for a park.