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I Want to be a landscape architect

7th July 2008

The Landscape Institute recently launched the careers website I Want to be a landscape architect

The website includes video clips with a range of landscape architects, including Dominic Cole, lead designer on the award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall, who is currently working on a long-term vision for Hampstead Heath, Ashley Dunseath, who swapped a career working in the City to become a landscape architect, and Paj Valley whose projects include the modernisation of the Bull Ring Centre in Birmingham, a luxury hotel in Dubai and is currently working on a major regeneration project in a former mining area in Derbyshire. Also interviewed is Rachel Toms, a design review advisor with CABE, and Varsha Halabe, who initially studied architecture in India before completing a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts.

The site features written interviews with Jason Prior, the man behind the 2012 London Olympic masterplan, and Australian landscape architect Peter Wilder, whose CV includes work on the Pottsdamer Platz in Berlin, Paddington Central in London and the regeneration of Dalton Park in Newcastle.

Other content includes the history of the profession, a large range of both historic and contemporary case studies from Stonehenge to the 2012 Olympic Park and the best ways to enter the profession.

Target audiences for the project will range from 11-14 year olds considering GCSE-level subjects to 16-18 year olds looking at undergraduate level courses.