landscape architecture

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landscape architect

One whose profession is the decorative and functional alteration and planting of grounds, especially at or around a building site.

landscape architecture n.

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land′scape ar`chitecture

the art or profession of arranging or modifying the features of a landscape, an urban area, etc., for aesthetic or practical reasons.

[1830–40]

land′scape ar`chitect, n.

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landscape architecture - the branch of architecture dealing with the arrangement of land and buildings for human use and enjoyment

architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"

Translations

architecture paysagère

landscape architecture

n → architettura del paesaggio

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