The Landscape Architect is a wide ranging professional who does a lot more than selecting plants for a planting plan. Landscape Architects are thoroughly trained in design, site layout issues, codes, laws, and practices with regard to development, grading, run-off and sensitive environmental features. Their expertise extends to parks, botanical and zoological gardens, sports fields, golf courses, and historic preservation. They are qualified to provide irrigation and drainage system design, choose and layout site amenities such as play equipment, night lighting, signage, disabled access ramps, railings and parking. In fact they often lay out parking lots and when they design roads they often take many factors into account in ways that civil engineers do not always consider: wildlife passage across highways, scenic vistas, least-impact on existing watersheds, and the interface with urban streetscapes, pedestrians, and bicyclists.
Many of Hawaii's Landscape Architects specialize in luxury resort work: swimming pool, water feature, gazebo, outdoor dining, custom outdoor shower facilities, equestrian facilities, tennis courts, and associated maintenance facilities.
Golf course design is a specialty all its own, and Hawaii's landscape architects include some of the best.
And a substantial part of our landscape architects work with urban planners and civil engineers to improve the design of new cities, new waterfront improvements, subdivisions, and transit systems.
Of course you can engage a landscape architect for a unique and thoughtful home landscape design as well, and many of the best firms do a steady business in both high end and middle class home landscape design work.
A 'landscape designer' is not necessarily an architect, and, unlike landscape architecture, a landscape designer is not licensed or regulated. Only someone licensed to practice in the State of Hawaii can use the term Landscape Architect in any promotional or sales or public posting.
For interim information on Hawaii Landscape Architects go to the link under "Our Associations," or use this link:
http://www.hawaiiasla.org/
Many of Hawaii's Landscape Architects specialize in luxury resort work: swimming pool, water feature, gazebo, outdoor dining, custom outdoor shower facilities, equestrian facilities, tennis courts, and associated maintenance facilities.
Golf course design is a specialty all its own, and Hawaii's landscape architects include some of the best.
And a substantial part of our landscape architects work with urban planners and civil engineers to improve the design of new cities, new waterfront improvements, subdivisions, and transit systems.
Of course you can engage a landscape architect for a unique and thoughtful home landscape design as well, and many of the best firms do a steady business in both high end and middle class home landscape design work.
A 'landscape designer' is not necessarily an architect, and, unlike landscape architecture, a landscape designer is not licensed or regulated. Only someone licensed to practice in the State of Hawaii can use the term Landscape Architect in any promotional or sales or public posting.
For interim information on Hawaii Landscape Architects go to the link under "Our Associations," or use this link:
http://www.hawaiiasla.org/
