Welcome to the Landscape Institute Scotland Website. The Landscape Institute is the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture. Under its Royal Charter the Landscape Institute is charged with protecting, conserving and enhancing the natural and built environment for the benefit of the public by the planning, design and management of outdoor space.
The site features the latest news and events from Scotland as well as showcasing the best Scottish landscape architecture schemes. You can also search for a landscape architect in Scotland or look at current recruitment positions.
The Scottish Branch works to represent the interests of members and the environment to the Scottish Government, agencies, and the voluntary sector. This is increasingly recognised to be a series of major tasks, which realistically require a greater level of resources. The Branch already has the services of part-time administrator Marianne Robson, based at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), School of Landscape Architecture. A number of responses to Government policy consultations have been submitted. In addition, the Branch is also well represented on bodies such as the Scottish Landscape Forum, Built Environment Forum Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland, and Architecture + Design Scotland.
A wide range of seminars, courses and other CPD events of interest to members is publicised by the Branch, and this includes the annual series of Memorial Lectures named after David Skinner, founder of the Landscape Architecture course at ECA. It is intended to expand these events in the months ahead.