What does landscape architecture do?

Landscape architecture is a subject of planning, designing, protecting, building and managing outdoor natural and artificial areas. Its core content is the creation of outdoor space, and its fundamental mission is to coordinate the relationship between man and nature.

Landscape architecture is an ancient and young subject. Gardens, landscapes and landscapes, as important carriers of human civilization, have existed for thousands of years. As a modern discipline, landscape architecture can be traced back to the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century. It is a new discipline paradigm established through scientific revolution on the basis of classical gardens and landscape gardens. From traditional gardening to modern landscape architecture, its development trend can be described by three extensions: first, it extends from serving a few people to serving human beings and their habitats; Secondly, in terms of values, it extends from the relatively simple entertainment aesthetic value orientation to the comprehensive value orientation of ecological culture; Thirdly, on the practical scale, it has expanded from the micro scale to the full scale of garden landscape as big as the whole world.

The development prospect of landscape architecture discipline is closely related to the background of the times and the destiny of the country. 2 1 century, sustainable development has become the consensus of all mankind. Climate warming, energy shortage and environmental crisis are common challenges facing mankind. Scientific development, ecological civilization and harmonious society have become the basic strategies of China's sustainable development, and stable economic growth and rapid urbanization will last for a long time. Materialism and excessive consumption began to attract people of insight's attention and thinking, and the pursuit of nature and beautiful spiritual life began to appear. Because the discipline of landscape architecture takes coordinating the relationship between man and nature as its fundamental mission and protecting and creating high-quality space landscape environment as its basic task, its development prospect is limitless.