Becoming a Landscape Architect (ePub)

Explore 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 gives
you 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.

Featuring more than thirty-five interviews with leading
landscape architects and more than 250 illustrations, the guide
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.

* Complete guide to the profession of landscape architecture, one
of today's fastest growing fields

* More than thirty-five interviews with leading landscape
designers and educators give you an idea of what it's really like
to work as a landscape architect

* Over 250 striking illustrations and a lively interior make the
book visually appealing as well as informative

* Explains different educational paths and their prerequisites
and requirements

* Author Kelleann Foster is Associate Professor and Assistant
Department Head, Department of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania
State University and Managing Partner, Visual Interactive
Communications Group