Landscape Architecture

What is Landscape Architecture? The word landscape is ambiguous, and can mistakingly infer that landscape architects provide installation and maintenance services. In reality, landscape architects design outdoor spaces with the same rigorous methodology that architects apply to habitable structures. Landscape Design Consulting specializes in the design of integrated landscape systems - for constraint-driven projects - through the lens of a systems analyst from thirty-thousand feet, blending art and science to create meaningful spaces for human use while preserving and enhancing the natural systems that sustain us. Landscape architecture represents the highest level of design as applied to outdoor spaces, and is a licensed profession requiring years of education, training, and demonstrated experience.

When should you hire a landscape architect? Projects in today's landscape are increasingly regulated and require signed and sealed drawings from a licensed professional in order to obtain approvals from governing agencies. Complex or overlapping zoning constraints, along with environmental site challenges, may further necessitate the involvement of a landscape architect. Moreover, landscape architects can recommend consultants from their professional network with whom they will coordinate their services in an effort to shepherd an owner's project through the regulatory minefield that has become increasingly challenging to navigate.

Landscape Architect: Master plan for a private residential estate on Long Island Sound in New Rochelle, New York. The plan features a complete outdoor living package including a luxury infinity-edge pool and spa, pool house, retaining walls and terraces, outdoor kitchen, fire pit, custom patios and walkways, stoops and stairs, driveway with Belgium block edging and aprons, native and ornamental plantings, and landscape lighting.