landscape architecture
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of landscape architecture
First recorded in 1830–40
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Landscape designer Mia Lehrer is the founder of the landscape architecture firm Studio-MLA.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
“Really you have to look at lawns as reservoirs, given the amount of water it takes to care for them,” said Charlie Ray, founder of the Green Room, a landscape architecture firm in Phoenix.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
Calhoun, whose daughter is 2, is trying to finish a graduate degree in landscape architecture, “so I can take my business a little further.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
Measurements made from photographs showed statistical differences in the stigma size upon exposure to volatiles, said the Science study's lead author, Shannon Stirling, a PhD student in horticulture and landscape architecture at Purdue.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2024
Evidently it was the natural formation of the terrain that inspired this extraordinary work of landscape architecture, as mysterious and moving in its way as Stonehenge.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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