Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design

I bought this for my future plan, for that purpose I thing its good.There are many Landscape Architect's story so you can also find what you want to do in this area.

This beautifully designed book by Kelleann Foster is well-written and carefully crafted. It is inspirational in the way she defines the exciting field of landscape architecture and its future through the words of a diverse range of practicing landscape architects and students. She skillfully portrays and presents how landscape architects differ from other design professionals in how they approach problem solving and create innovative solutions through a range of skills in tune with both the natural and cultural world. She also shows how this field is unique because of its expansive nature to include the visionary and big-picture perspectives that are so vital to dealing with global issues such as climate change on a local level in each community, project by project. I highly recommend Ms. Foster's book for those wanting to have a hand in making this world more lasting, healthy, safe, productive, peaceful, beautiful, and fun for a long time to come.

While the concept for this book is all good and swell, the execution of it is quite lacking.This book is basically 200 pages of professional interviews. All the interviewers are asked the same exact questions. Almost all of the interviewees give the same exact answers to those questions. Many of the interviewees also try to market the firm they work for. The professionals interviewed are from various disciplines within the whole of landscape architecture, showcasing some of the broader fields a landscape architect can practice in. That part was somewhat piratical I suppose. There are a few pages (3 or 4) dedicated to building your resume, finding a program of study, interviewing for a job, etc. And some information about specific landscape architecture projects. But overall, its largely full of bland interview answers, with people talking about why they chose landscape architecture. There's not a whole lot of meat to sink your teeth in. So my experience reading it, was sort of like reading the same page over again, 200 times.I bought this book because I plan do a Masters of Landscape Architecture, and was hoping for a really informative, in-depth, modern take on the subject. My background is in urban planning, so I already have a general understanding/idea of the landscape subject.So that being said, I suppose you may find this book useful/informative coming from a completely non-related field, or having no knowledge of the subject whatsoever.

I initially bought this book for my teenage son, who has been considering a career in architecture or landscape architecture. But as I glanced through it along with him, I was drawn into it and ended up reading it in one sitting. Even more ironic is the fact that I am a landscape architect myself, and have been in the field for almost 26 years. I found Ms. Foster's analysis of the topic to be not only thorough but exciting and diverse. The personal interviews offer a variety of creative approaches, values, and career paths -- a human touch often lacking in career reference materials. It also illustrates the artistic, environmental and social aspects of a profession that, while fast-growing, is still frequently misunderstood.Reading this book was energizing for me as a landscape architecture professional, and it seems to have persuaded my son that it is the field for him too!

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Wonderful book, very great reference.

Read it b/c I'm considering changing careers. I'm established in a completed different industry, unrelated to design. It's helpful hearing about the different avenues people took to become a LA.

I selected this book based on all the good reviews. I find it a difficult book to get into because all of the pictures are black and white and look like they were taken back in the 70's. Some of them I can barely discern which is the before and which is the after. If they do demonstrate good landscape design - these pictures certainly don't show it. The interviews of the actual architects are somewhat informative (for those wanting to go into the field), but I wasn't interested in reading them because the photographs of their work weren't attractive.