News
I want to be a landscape architect website now online
19th May 2008
The I Want To Be A Landscape Architect website has now been launched with support from CABE Space, one of the Institute’s key stakeholders.
The campaign is a direct response to the chronically low level of entry onto Landscape Institute accredited university courses and the severe shortages of landscape architects in the labour market. A Landscape Institute survey in 2007 showed that 52% of firms were turning away contracts because of staff shortages and in 2007 research by the Academy for Sustainable Communities, showed that the shortages of landscape architects were set to worsen as demand in the economy increased.
Individual members are encouraged to see involvement in this campaign as a core responsibility to the profession as stipulated by the Code of Conduct. The Institute’s mission is ‘to build the professional community in the service of the public interest’. Members are the best advocates of the rewards and pleasures of a career in landscape architecture.
If members would like to give talks on landscape architecture in schools guidance notes and reading lists can be found on the site.
