For my career opportunity project, I have chosen to take a look at the profession of landscape architecture. This field interest me for several reasons. First, I have alwaysliked to draw and design and growing up I always wanted to be an architect or engineer. Ifelt that engineering put too many limitations on creativity, so architecture was the path ofchoice. Then, after working with my father’s small business for the past 6 doing somelandscaping and lawn care, I decided that since I enjoyed working with plants andlandscaping that I might want to look into a profession that would allow me to continue towork in those areas. Landscape architecture seemed to be the next logical choice,allowing me to continue being involved in the landscape industry and also to work muchlike I would in the field of architecture. When most people think of landscaping, they think of flower beds around aresidence. The landscaping that a landscape architect is responsible for designing,however, rarely deals with residential landscapes and when it does so it is only onexpensive projects. While landscape architects may do projects ranging form a fewthousand dollars on up to as much as the customer would like to spend, the majority of their work is concentrated in the $30,000 to $15 million range (Pethel). You can seewhere few residential projects would fall into this range. However, this range is broadenough to encompass many different projects in the following areas: site planning,urban/town planning, park and recreation planning, land development, and historicalpreservation (Landscape Architecture). Landscape architecture is “the art and science ofanalysis, planning design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land”(Landscape Architecture). Landscape architects must have a “working knowledge ofarchitecture, civil engineering and urban planning” (Landscape Architecture) as well as aknowledge of horticulture, “...
