Landscape Architects What Do We Do?

Written by Paul Wong at LandCreative Inc.

Many years ago, when I’d been in the industry for a few years, my wife would often get the polite inquiry, “What does your husband do?”

When she’d respond that I was a Landscape Architect, she’d usually get the same follow up question, “How many trucks does he have?”

Or sometimes the response would be, “You must have beautiful garden.” But you know how the saying goes: “the Cobbler’s kids have no shoes.”

Let’s just say, my garden is currently functional, and it did look great in the first few years it was installed. I haven’t spent much time “gardening” recently, so it does need some attention. But as a Landscape Architect, I don’t do landscape maintenance, and I don’t own a single truck.

I have nothing but respect and great admiration for the landscape maintenance crews and landscape contractors, because they do all the hard work making our designs reality, but we are all mistakenly seen as one.

Even today in 2023, our profession still has to work on getting our message out about just what it is we do and don’t do.