What is Landscape & Environmental Design?

It is the plan of nearly anything around you and under the sky. Green rooftops, metropolitan structures, corporate grounds – they all characterize landscape architectural design.

By and large, environmental design covers a gigantic range, maybe best comprehended by the calling's mantra: as accomplishing a harmony between the fabricated and regular habitats. It requires a multidisciplinary approach including ecological science, workmanship, biology, and considerably more. Once in a while scene configuration prompts unprecedented outcomes, for example, reestablishing imperiled wetlands, getting government and different structures to work together, and even eliminating poisons from water.

Even the street-level landscape architecture of the modern city can be characterized as a new green feature. But we have a long way to go. And there are a few design challenges that need to be tackled before landscape design can effectively achieve its goal of fundamentally re-shaping and sustainably innovating environments.

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."

Rem Koolhaas