Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice, landscape design bridges the space between landscape architecture and garden design.
Central Park in Manhattan, the first landscaped urban park in the United States
Autumn colours at Stourhead gardens
André Le Nôtre
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
