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20 Famous Landscape Architects You Should Know About

There have been many landscape architects over the years with unique and amazing styles. They have designed most of the famous buildings, parks, gardens, public plazas and campuses. Landscape architecture is mostly undermined, however, when done well it creates beautiful and fascinating spaces.

Landscape architects co-work with planners, engineers, developers, and builders to bring out amazing and functional outdoor spaces. One of the most famous architects is Frederick Law Olmsted commonly referred to as the 鈥榝ather of American landscape architecture鈥�. He co-designed Central Park with Calvert Vaux.

Landscape architects must be creative while creating spaces and consider several factors such as topography, climate, and the wants of the people who will be using the space. They must be responsible for creating usable space and considering functionality. The following are the 20 most landscape architects you should know about:

1. Andr茅 Le N么tre

He was a famous French landscape architect who designed the gardens of the Palace of 麻豆APP. He was as well-known for being the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France.

Before working on 麻豆APP, he collaborated with Charles Le Brun and Louis Le Vau on the park at Vaux-le-Vicomte.

Other Andr茅 Le N么tre landscape designs include Ch芒teau de Chantilly, Ch芒teau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, National Estate of Saint-Cloud, and Ch芒teau de Fontainebleau among others.

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2. Calvert Vaux

He was an English-American architect and landscape designer born on December 20, 1824, and died on November 19, 1895, living a legacy behind. Calvert designed and created dozens of parks on his own and in several partnerships across the northeastern United States.

Some of his notable landscape designs include Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Downing Park, Newburgh, New York, The State Reservation at Niagara, Rockwood Park, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and Central Park.

3. Lancelot 鈥淐apability鈥� Brown

Lancelot 鈥淐apability鈥� Brown photo by After Nathaniel Dance-Holland Wikimedia

Lancelot is commonly known as Capability Brown. He was one of the famous landscape architects from England. He left a positive legacy and he remains to be the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

He is mostly remembered for the landscaped parks of the English country houses. Some of his other landscape designs include Harewood House, Yorkshire, Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire, Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, Burghley House Gardens & Deer Park, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, Hampton Court, Middlesex and Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

4. Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted photo By James Notman, Boston

Frederick Law Olmsted was famous for co-designing with Calvert Vaux many urban parks which are popularly known. His first project with Calvert was Central Park.

 He was an American landscape architect born on April 26, 1822, he designed many landscapes architecture before he died such as Buffalo, New York, The Biltmore Estate, North Carolina, Parc du Mont-Royal, Montreal, Elm Park, Worcester, Massachusetts, and U.S. Capitol Grounds, Washington D.C.

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5. James Corner

James Corner was born in 1961 and is a famous landscape architect and urban designer. He is famously known for his work on the High Line in New York City.

He is always fascinated by the relationship between the city and nature. He has done several notable works such as Race Street Pier, Philadelphia, The High Line, NYC, Navy Pier, Chicago, Shelby Farms Park, Memphis and Freshkills Park, Staten Island among others.

6. Louis Benech

Louis Benech is a lover of plants; the love, he has for plants brought him to gardening and landscaping architecture. He is famously known for restoring the ancient part of the Tuileries Gardens together with Pascal Cribier and Fran莽ois Roubaud, in 1990. 

Work with Tuileries Gardens was a breakthrough for his career, since then, Louis Benech has worked for many famous established and historic gardens such as Courson, Pavlovsk鈥檚 rose pavilion, the Gardens of the Achilleion, and the Elys茅e Gardens and the Quai d鈥橭rsay among others.

7. Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll photo by William Nicholson

Gertrude Jekyll was born on November, 29, 184 Mayfair, London, England. She is a famous landscape architect and horticulturist. She is remembered for creating over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, the United State and Europe.

Jekyll also wrote over 1000 articles for magazines such as William Robinson鈥檚 The Garden and Country Life among others.

She designed several landscapes designs such as Castle Drogo, Devon, Barrington Court Manor, Somerset, Gertrude Jekyll Garden at The Glebe House, Woodbury, Connecticut, Gravetye Manor, Sussex, and Hestercombe House, Somerset among others.

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8. Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks was an American landscape designer and co-founder of Maggie鈥檚 Cancer Care Centres (a network of drop-in centres across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, which its main aim was to help people affected by cancer).

In the 1980s he became famous as a theorist of Postmodernism. It was also said that Charles published approximately thirty books.

Most of Charles鈥檚 time he dedicated to landscape architecture, some of his landscape designs include Landform Ueda, Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Spirals of Time, Parco Portello, Milan, Jupiter Artland near Edinburgh, What is Life?, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Ireland, Eco-Geo Park, Suncheon, South Korea and Northumberlandia, Newcastle.

9. Martha Schwartz

Martha Schwartz is one of the famous American landscape architects and educators. She is famously known for founding Martha Schwartz Partners (an architecture firm based in London, New York City and Shanghai). The firm helped her flip the traditional ideals in the field of landscape architecture.

Martha is as well a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has accomplished many projects in landscape designs such as Jeju Dream Tower landscaping, Grand Canal Square Plaza, Bord G谩is Energy Theatre, Dublin, Boston Bagel Garden, Qatar Petroleum Grounds, Doha, Splice Garden, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, United States, and Marina Linear Park, San Diego.

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10. Wirtz Family

Wirtz Family was a Belgian landscape architect. It is interesting to know that Wirtz鈥檚 sons namely Peter Wirtz and Martin Wirtz have followed in their father鈥檚 footsteps and are also acclaimed landscape architects.

Several of Wirtz鈥檚 designs use evergreens which gives interest throughout the seasons. It is easy to identify Wirtz garden since they make big statements. Some of his best landscape designs include Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf, London, University of Antwerp Campus, Alnwick Castle ground, Northumberland, and Les Jardins du Carrousel, Tuileries, 麻豆APP among others.

11. Kongjian Yu

Kongjian is one of the famous landscape architects and urbanists. He is the founder of the college of architecture and Landscape Architecture known as Peking University. He was the winner of the International Federation of Landscape Architects鈥� Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award in 2020.

He mostly used computers and sensor programs to create landscapes. Some of his notable work includes Minghu Wetland Park, Liupanshui City, Red Ribbon Park, Qinhuangdao City, Shanghai Houtan Park, Suqian Santaishan Flower Quilt, Jiangsu Province, Tongnan Dafo Temple Wetland Park, Chongqing City and Yanweizhou Park, Jinhua City.

12. Laurie Olin

Laurie Olin photo by Martin Vloet

Laurie Olin was born on October 12, 1938, in Marshfield, Wisconsin. He is an American Landscape architect. He has worked on several landscape design projects in both public and private gardens /parks.

He is the co-founder of the landscape architecture and urban design firm Olin Partnership Limited (OLIN). He has written severally on the history and theory of architecture and landscape hence winning the Bradford Williams medal for being the best in writing on Landscape Architecture.

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13. Michael Van Valkenburgh

Michael Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked in different countries such as Korea, France, Canada, and United State among others. In each of his projects, he adapts a new design, hence they are all slightly different.

He has designed several notable landscapes such as Monk鈥檚 Garden, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Gathering Place, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Woodland Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Gateway Arch National Park, St Louis among others.

14. William Kent

William Kent is a British landscape architect and furniture designer. He has done several amazing projects leaving a lasting legacy behind. He mostly popularized the natural gardening style.

Kent accomplished several amazing projects such as Stowe Landscape Garden, Buckinghamshire, Holkham Hall, Norfolk, Chiswick House, London, Rousham House & Gardens, Oxfordshire, and Houghton Hall & Gardens, Norfolk among others.

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15. Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin was born on July 1, 1916, and died back on October 25, 2009. He is one of the famous landscape architects. He began his career in 1949, in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. He renowned American landscape designer, and has accomplished several projects.

Some of his amazing landscape designs include Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, Ira Keller Fountain, Portland, Oregon, The Sea Ranch master plans, California, Lovejoy Fountain Park, Portland, Oregon, and Freeway Park, Seattle among others.

16. Peter Walker

Peter Walker is an American landscape architect. At first, he was not interested in architecture, but when he joined the University of California, Berkeley he started studying journalism but later changed the course to study landscape Architecture and attained his Bachelor’s in 1955.

In 1957, Peter joined hands with Sasaki and formed 鈥楽asaki Walker Associates.’ They later stopped working together in 1983, and Walker partnered with Martha Schwartz, a landscape architect.

Some of the notable works Peter Walker has accomplished include National September 11 Memorial & Museum, NYC, Quzhou Sports Campus, China, Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore, Hong Kong New Central Harborfront, Barangaroo waterfront renewal project, Syndney, and Salesforce Transit Center and Park, San Francisco.

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17. Roberto Burle Marx

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Roberto Burle Marx was popularly known for designing parks and gardens. He is one of the Brazilian famous landscape architects. He is known for introducing modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. Marx鈥檚 works influence tropical garden design.

Some of his amazing works include S铆tio Roberto Burle Marx 鈥� IPHAN, Rio de Janeiro, Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro, Copacabana Promenade, Rio de Janeiro, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Parque Burle Marx, S茫o Paulo, and Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.

18. Nahal Sohbati

Nahal Sohbati is a Tehran landscape designer. Initially, she had an interest in interior architecture, however, she developed a passion for public open spaces which made her join the Academy of Art in San Francisco to pursue a master鈥檚 degree in landscape architecture.

She is mostly known for Ridge Lane, an award-winning community service project which started in 2014. She founded Topophyla, a landscape firm that serves Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Bay Area.

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19. Janice Parker

Janice Parker is one of the famous landscape architects. She has done projects around the globe. In 1984 Janice founded an eponymous firm. Due to her amazing work, she has won several awards such as VERANDA’s 2020 Outdoor Living Awards and the National Palladio Award for Landscape Architecture.

She became a member of the Board of Trustees for Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in 2019. The organization aimed to develop New York鈥檚 public spaces and create a favorable environment for people living in populated areas.

20. Edwina Von Gal

Edwina Von Gal is an American landscape designer. She founded several projects such as the Azuero Earth Project in Panama (2008) and the Perfect Earth Project to promote chemical-free (2013).

Due to her amazing work, she has won several awards such as the Quogue Wildlife Refuge Conservator Award, 2020, Quill and Trowel Award for Garden Writing, 1998, Isamu Noguchi Award, 2018, Institute of Classical Architecture and Art’s Arthur Ross Award, 2012, NY School of Interior Design Green Design Award, 2018, Decoration and Design Building Stars of Design Award, Landscape Design, 2013, and Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement In the Visual Arts, 2017 among others.