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What is Landscape Architecture? Although the term landscape architecture was invented by a Scotsman (Gilbert Laing Meason, in 1828), it was an American (Frederick Law Olmsted) who gave birth to the landscape architecture profession. We should therefore pay close attention to the definition of the profession given by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). In the early years of the web (1999) it was as follows: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: DEFINING THE PROFESSION A Profession In Demand From city council rooms to corporate boardrooms, there is increasing demand today for the professiona