Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design - Kelleann Foster


I found Foster's analysis of Landscape Architecture to be not only thorough but exciting and diverse. The personal interviews offer a variety of creative approaches, values, and career paths, a human touch often lacking in career reference materials. The literature also illustrates the artistic, environmental and social aspects of a profession that, while fast-growing, is still frequently misunderstood. Reading this book was energising for me as a landscape architecture student.

The beautifully designed book by Kelleann Foster is well-written and carefully crafted. It is inspirational in the way she defines the exciting field of landscape architecture and its future through the words of a diverse range of practicing landscape architects and students. Foster skilfully portrays and presents how landscape architects differ from other design professionals in how they approach problem solving and create innovative solutions through a range of skills in tune with both the natural and cultural world. She also shows how this field is unique because of its expansive nature to include the visionary and big-picture perspectives that are so vital to dealing with global issues such as climate change on a local level in each community, project by project. I highly recommend Foster's book for those wanting to have a hand in making this world more lasting, healthy, safe, productive, peaceful, beautiful, and fun for a long time to come.

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