Some observations regarding the education of landscape architects for the 21st century

This article presents some questions concerning development in the education of landscape architects in the future. The questions arise from changes observable in programs of some schools of landscape architecture as well as in technical and scientific disciplines that share with landscape architecture activity in the landscape. The aim of the article is to highlight the relationship between landscape planning and science and the technical disciplines that are active in the landscape, as well as the special tasks landscape planning has in environmental conservation. The article stresses that landscape architecture—and landscape planning in particular—is from its inception based on scientific analysis, which, however, it builds upon with a search for solutions to problems of land use and management. Creativity is crucial in this process: it is capable of fulfilling the basic conservation requirement—to employ the environmental intervention alternative that is least harmful to the environment.