The Landscape Institute (LI) is a UK based professional body for the landscape profession. Its membership includes landscape architects, urban designers, landscape planners, landscape scientists and landscape managers. The LI also has a category for academic members.
The landscape profession was inspired by the classical world. Stourhead
The landscape park at Blenheim Palace was designed by Capability Brown. Though often described as 'Britain's most famous landscape architect' Brown was born two centuries before the formation of what is now the UK Landscape Institute and one century before the invention of the term 'landscape architecture'
The 1951 Festival of Britain was one of first prestige public projects on which British landscape architects were engaged
After many years as a car park (for civil servants) Horse Guards Parade was restored by landscape architect Hal Moggridge as a parade ground and civic square
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for construction and human use, investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of other interventions that will produce desired outcomes.
Stourhead in Wiltshire, England, designed by Henry Hoare (1705–1785), "the first landscape gardener, who showed in a single work, genius of the highest order"
A canal design focused on esthetical landscape architecture in Stockholm, Sweden.
A river with functional (flood preventing) landscape engineering in Houston, Texas, for comparison.
Orangery at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris
