Landscape Architects

Also called: Golf Course Architect, Landscape Architect, Landscape Planner

Career Cluster: Architecture & Construction
What they do:
Plan and design land areas for projects such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.
On the job, you would:
  • Confer with clients, engineering personnel, or architects on landscape projects.
  • Analyze data on conditions such as site location, drainage, or structure location for environmental reports or landscaping plans.
  • Inspect landscape work to ensure compliance with specifications, evaluate quality of materials or work, or advise clients or construction personnel.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Engineering and Technology
  • design
  • building and construction
Math and Science
  • geography
  • biology
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • customer service
Skills Image SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
People and Technology Systems
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilities Image ABILITIES

Math
  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Ideas and Logic
  • create new and original ideas
  • come up with lots of ideas
Verbal
  • communicate by speaking
  • listen and understand what people say
Personality Image PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Innovation
  • Attention to Detail
  • Dependability
  • Intellectual Curiosity
  • Achievement Orientation
  • Cooperation
Technology Image TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Computer aided design CAD software
  • Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
  • Trimble SketchUp Pro
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Graphics or photo imaging software
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe Illustrator
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Bachelor's degree usually needed SEARCH ALL PROGRAMS & MAJORS SEARCH COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Job Outlook Image JOB OUTLOOK

New job opportunities are likely in the future.

Salary:
High: $132,250.00
Median: $79,660.00
Low: $51,990.00
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