Vocational fields

The field of activity of landscape architecture is extraordinarily far and reaches from the organization of small back gardens up to the planning of whole landscape parts. Thematically the span of purely formative reaches up to ecological questions.

History

The historical roots of landscape architecture are embodied in the culture history of the landscape. The garden architecture, the historical of landscape architecture, developed in the course of its history occasionally to its own, particularly in the baroque most outstanding art form. Examples of historically meaning park plants are the park of Versailles, which English garden in Munich, which cent ral park in New York or the Parc de La Villette in Paris, which were arranged accordingly the valid in each case society, landscape and nature ideals. Dramatic city growth in the course of the Industriellen revolution changed the general of nature and landscape gradually profoundly. That affected crucially the development of the garden architecture and garden culture, because the functional requirements at landscape and garden changed seriously, while artistic interests stepped increasingly into the background. Landscape architecture is historically seen particularly in the German linguistic area a relatively recent term, which differs from the historical designations garden architecture or garden architecture. The garden architect Frederick Law Olmsted was - like that it is the Encyclopedia OF Gardens to infer - probably first, that in the USA in the middle 19. Century coined/shaped the term Landscape Architect in connection with his work on the cent ral park in New York. In view of enormous planning and task of building in New York was he the opinion that "“Landscape Gardening"”, too German: Landscape market garden the focus would limit too much to the garden. therefore 1899 were created the ASLA, the American Society OF Landscape Architects and few decades after became generally accepted the term landscape architecture also in Europe against the designation garden architecture. In view of the profound changes of the landscape in and the 40's 30's 20. Century in Europe it needed a new occupation, which not only the purely technical of engineer in opinion of experts, which only structural ones of the architect or the purely gardening, but the entire, who should grasp landscape and their organization. Today straight is measured out to the aesthetic qualities of the life environment again intensified meaning, which is reflected clearly in current landscape architecture.

Training

In order to become landscape architect, one must complete at a university or a professional school the appropriate study - partly than landscape architecture, partly than land conservation or landscape planning designated -, at least two years in this range be active and afterwards on request the architectural association of a Land of the Federal Republic occur. Until a few years ago it was still usual to complete before the start of the study instead of a practical course gardner teachings which is recommended also today still by occupation practical men.

The country wide specialized combination is the BDLA, the federation of German landscape architects, the international controlling body is international the IFLA, the Federation OF Landscape Architects.

Study possibilities

at universities in Germany:

• Technical University of Munich Weihenstephan
• Technical University of Berlin
• University of Hanover
• Technical University of Dresden
• University of Kassel

at professional schools universities:

• Professional school Wiesbaden - study place Geisenheim
• Technical professional school Berlin
• Professional school
• Professional school Weihenstephan
• University for economics and environment Geislingen
• Professional school notion
• Professional school lip and
• Professional school Erfurt
• Professional school new Brandenburg
• University for technology and economics Dresden (FH)

Study possibilities

at universities/universities abroad:

• University for technology Rapperswil/Switzerland
• Ecole d'ingenieurs de Lullier/Switzerland
• Swiss federal technical university (ETH) Zurich/Switzerland
• University for soil culture (BOKU) Vienna/Austria
• Technical University of Vienna/Austria

Literature

"… to current landscape architecture:

• Hans Loidl, Stefan Berne pool of broadcasting corporations: Free spaces. Basel Berlin Boston 2003 ISBN 3764370122
• Udo Weilacher: In gardens. Profiles of current European landscape architecture. Basel Berlin Boston 2005 ISBN 376437084X
• Mader: Openspace planning. Stuttgart 2004 ISBN 3421034486
• Thies Produced nature. Basel Berlin Boston 2001 ISBN 3764364289
• Udo Weilacher: Between landscape architecture and country kind. Basel Berlin Boston 1999 ISBN 3764361204
• Jane Amidon: Landscape Design. Stuttgart 2001 ISBN 3421032955
• Callwey publishing house (Hrsg.): Texts to the landscape. Munich 2003 ISBN 3766715585
• Wolfgang Weinzierl: Thirty years landscape architecture, Ingolstadt 2003 ISBN 3-936808-06-6
• Nicole Uhrig: Free spaces Berlin - a companion to new landscape architecture. Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-7667-1636-0

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• BDLA federation of German landscape architects
• IFLA internationally Federation OF Landscape Architects
• LE: NOTRE topic TIC network in Landscape Architecture European network
• DGGL German society for garden architecture and landscape culture registered association.

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