Landscape architecture is so much more than designing backyards. It’s about planning communities and outdoor spaces that are more walkable, more livable, more meaningful and more sustainable.

Californian landscape architecture firm Terremoto is, as its name suggests, shaking things up. Here’s how it finds success by staying close to home – and to its principles. They make beautiful ...

Barranca Landscape crew members ascend a steep hill overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir in Los Angeles to prepare the land for native plants. (Courtesy Terremoto) In the spring of 2021, we published ...

As in real estate, so in sustainable landscape architecture: Location is everything. A successful coastal Florida garden is going to require some very different elements than one in California's Napa ...

The Mexican designer's works have reshaped park in Mexico and beyond. He's just been awarded the Oberlander Prize. In Toronto, a polluted industrial wasteland is now a beautiful park Once home to oil ...

Romanian architecture firm BLIPSZ has created a near-autonomous holiday home that combines the charms of rural Transylvanian architecture with a sustainable and contemporary design aesthetic.

The scenery has improved in the century since Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver founded the first landscape architecture firm owned and operated by women in the Pacific Northwest. Home gardeners who ...

The landscape architect Julie Bargmann focuses on contaminated and forgotten urban sites. The results are both beautiful and socially conscious. By Tanya Mohn Visionaries is a limited series that ...

Beautiful China is the title of the Chinese government’s broad policy to ensure the traditions and esthetics of Chinese culture not only survive as heritage but apply to contemporary society and to ...

From rooftop terraces to public parks to country gardens, New York landscape architects craft outdoor spaces that celebrate the natural world and delight their visitors. Firms in the New York area are ...

“No one has been able to capture the breadth of what a landscape architect does,” says Aniket Bhagwat, who heads India’s premier studio Prabhakar Bhagwat in Ahmedabad and Mumbai. From the stepwells of ...