| Georgia Chapter, American Society for Landscape Architects |
What is Landscape Architecture?
Landscape architecture is a profession that is broad in scale and scope. Landscape architects receive education and training in site design, historic preservation, and planning, as well as in technical and scientific areas such as grading, drainage, horticulture, and environmental sciences.
With this diverse background, landscape architects possess a unique blend of skills to help families, communities, and businesses address important local, regional, and national concerns. Landscape architecture is regulated by state licensure requirements. Becoming licensed generally requires a university degree in landscape architecture and completion of a period of supervised practice. All states require passage of the extensive four-part national licensing examination.
Professional services include but not limited to:
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Site Planning
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Detailed Design
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Environmental Restoration
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Community and Urban Planning
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Commercial, Mixed Use and Hospitality
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Park and Recreation
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Regional Design and Planning
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Historic Preservation and Adaptive Re-Use
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects is committed to cultivating a community that is welcoming and inclusive to all. This begins with confronting the fact that landscape architecture’s legacy is interwoven with a history of classism, colonization, and racism. Honest accountability is needed to foster healing, awareness, compassion, and action within the profession.
The Chapter acknowledges that works of landscape architecture have and continue to be built on indigenous lands and that many historical landscapes were shaped by the hands of enslaved people. Landscape architecture has also contributed to the disenfranchisement of marginalized communities, especially communities of color, with both brazen and subtle exclusion and displacement. The Chapter understands that the recognition of these realities is needed to propel the profession towards a more equitable and just future.
In order to fulfill the pledge of environmental and socially conscious stewardship, for both are intimately intertwined, our professional community must grow increasingly representative of our nation’s rich diversity. It is with varying perspectives that we will develop greater understanding, empathy, and innovation. Nature reminds us unequivocally that there is no thriving without diversity.
Humbled by a marred history, yet hopeful for a better future, the Chapter is dedicated to being a steadfast leader of, and advocate for, moving the profession of landscape architecture towards greater diversity, equity, and inclusion