Reply To: An “ah-ha” moment on Defining Landscape Architecture

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

I’m not sure which state you are in, but you can usually drive a bus through any practice act when you get to the exemption list. Basically,”no one else can do this work except anyone who does this work and does not call himself a landscape architect”.

Practice Acts are almost all Title Acts when the rubber hits the road. At least the ones that I have read.

 

My belief is that a good Practice Act would allow LAs to do more work that is limited to other professionals such as light architectural design and some grading, drainage, and dite design issues otherwise limited to architects and engineers. I don’t like Practice Acts that exempt others from doing landscape design. We should be able to out compete those when the job needs more than they can handle – they’ll out compete us when it does not.

 

What can you not do in your state that an LA can besides going after work that the developer requires a licensed LA?