Definition of Landscape architecture

1. Noun. The branch of architecture dealing with the arrangement of land and buildings for human use and enjoyment.

Generic synonyms: Architecture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Landscape Architecture

landphoons
landplane
landrace
landraces
landrail
landrails
landreeve
landreeves
landrover
landrush
landrushes
lands
lands preserved
landscape
landscape architect
landscape architecture (current term)
landscape gardener
landscape gardening
landscape genetics
landscape painting
landscaped
landscaper
landscapers
landscapes
landscaping
landscapist
landscapists
landscrip

Literary usage of Landscape architecture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design by Henry Vincent Hubbard (1917)
"SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCES ON landscape architecture Bibliography ... On some parts of the field of landscape architecture there is a wealth of published ..."

2. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1903)
"V. The Technology Review JANUARY, THE COURSE IN landscape architecture No. i At the Commencement exercises of last year the first graduates of the Course in ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
landscape architecture is primarily a fine art, and as such its most important ... The province of landscape architecture is so to guide man's modification ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Yet, amongst the profession, the term landscape architecture is preferred. This term borrows the dignity of architecture, and is useful in a professional ..."

5. Careers for Women by Catherine Filene (1920)
"Following is a list of colleges and schools which offer courses in landscape architecture to women: Cornell University; University of Illinois; ..."

6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1915)
"A fund has been raised by the American Society of Landscape Architects to establish a fellowship in landscape architecture in the American Academy at Rome, ..."

7. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"These fellowships are open for competition to graduates in architecture and in landscape-architecture, respectively. RESIDENT SCHOLARSHIPS. ..."

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