Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design

Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design explores exciting options for a career in landscape architecture.

Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US Department of Labor.  Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design gives readers a comprehensive survey of the field as it is practiced today, and explains how to get started and how to succeed in this exciting, creative and in-demand profession. The book featuring more than 35 interviews with leading landscape architects and more than 250 illustrations and covers everything an aspiring landscape architect needs to know- from education and training, design specialties, and work settings to preparing an effective portfolio and finding a job in residential, ecological, commercial and parks design.