Landscape Architectural Technologist Career Profile
- Career Name - Landscape Architectural Technologist
- Category - Art & Design
- Skills Required - Life skills 40% - Career skills 60%
- Basic Subjects - Art, Business Studies, Biology
- Minimum Education - High School
- Species Worked With - Pets, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
- Short Courses - 340 with Rewards = Points +Badges
Do you want to work as a Landscape Architectural Technologist?
READ: This page helps you read about the career and the information you need to decide whether this is indeed the career you want to follow.
RESEARCH: ​Learn about the skills required and minimum subjects to enter this career, as well as the places where you can study further after school.
PREPARE: If you want to plan and prepare for your career, then join the OZT community! Members have access to tools while chatting with other students and experts from around the world. Prepare to be amazed!
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29 April 2024
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What is a landscape architectural technologist?
Landscape architectural technologists help landscape architects, engineers, planners, and horticulturists by putting all of their ideas on paper through art and design.
History?
The idea of using technology to create plans or drawing started in 1957
Landscape Architects?
Australia is seen as one of the best places for landscape architects to work in
What does a Landscape Architectural Technologist do?
Category:
Art & Design / Zoos, Aquariums, Theme Parks & Museums
Focus:
Landscape architectural technologists are involved in the technical aspects of planning, designing, and developing.
Daily Tasks:
- Work with Landscape Architects to prepare conceptual designs
- Collaborate with other disciplines including planning, engineering and horticulturists
- Visit the site to help with conceptual drawings
- Prepare construction detail drawings using CAD
- Prepare cost estimates
- Assist with preparation of specifications and technical reports
- Meet project deadlines
- Present to clients
- Administrative work
Where they work:
Environment –
Technologists work equal parts in and outdoors, as they inspect the site, make preliminary drawings, and transfer the ideas and rough sketches into digital images through specific software,
Places of Employment –
Most technologists work for architectural firms, but are also employed by government, city spatial developers, landscape companies, golf course design companies, zoos and theme parks.
Average Salary:
On average the income per year is around $38,000. This will differ from country to country.
Difficulties:
The most difficult part of this career is transferring the ideas and concepts into a digital image. They might also work long hours and with tight deadlines.
​Future growth and Possibilities:
The yearly growth of this career is estimated at around 5% and can be competitive. New expansions and development of environmental spaces that conform to environmental specification (carbon footprinting) can cause a higher growth for this career.
3. Which Skills are required?
The skills required for a career as a landscape architectural technologist can be divided into two very important groups. The first is the group containing life skills, which are the core skills that are necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life. The second group is career skills, or the specific skills required to allow a person to enter and operate effectively within a specific career. Some or maybe even all of the life skills can assist in strengthening the career skills, and they might even be the same for specific careers.
Life Skills:
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
Career Skills:
- ​Good business knowledge
- Good artistic skills
- Basic customer service skills
- Good health and physical fitness
- Excellent computer literacy (drawing software)
4. Which Subjects must I have at School?
Art should be your major subject in High School, as it will also help to gain admission into most of the colleges.
Not all schools have technical drawing or draughting as a subject, but if yours does, it is a must have subject to help you understand some of the basics in drawing plans.
Technical drawings are created digitally, which means that it will be required of you to learn more about digital or editing software, such as CAD, and how to use programs such as Photoshop to manipulate images.
The subjects you choose at school are important as they lay the foundation for further studies at college or university. While still at school, it’s also important to learn more about the animals you will work with, as well as gain some experience.
OZT has a list of various tertiary institutions where you can study further, after school. Each of these institutions also have their own Group page on OZT where you will find the exact subjects they require of you to have passed in school. Keep these requirements in mind, and discuss it with your school, guidance counselor and parents to ensure that you are prepared!
5. What will I need to Study?
Minimum Requirements:
The minimum educational requirement to enter this career will be a recognized College Diploma
Focus:
Major –
Your focus should be on landscape architectural technology, or a major in landscape related subjects, such as landscaping, horticulture, habitat development, or in subjects that assist in strengthening your knowledge in architectural designing.
Short Courses –
Try to find and complete as many short courses in subjects that cover plant knowledge, geology, CAD software, irrigation, and outdoor structures such as furniture
Duration:
The duration of College and Bachelor’s Degrees can be up to 3 or 4 years. Short Courses are usually between a few weeks and a year.
Possible Career Preparation Paths:
If this is your dream career that you want to pursue, then it’s important to plan the way forward.
Why is planning important?
​To ensure that you understand the requirements for your career, and that you are always prepared for the next step on the road towards your dream. A Preparation Path is like your road map to where you want to be.
Possible Paths:
Possible Combined Career Paths:
It is possible to sometimes combine two or more related careers. This normally happens when you study and practice a specific main career, but the knowledge and experience gained also help you to have a paying hobby or secondary income career.
Possible Alternatives (there are a lot more):
Stepping Stone Career:
Being a landscape architectural technologist can also be used as a stepping stone career. A stepping stone career is one which is used to help you get to another career, normally because the other career is too difficult to reach (sometimes due to things like high fees etc).
You can begin as an intern technologist after basic short courses and expert guidance (maybe working under a mentor). The money made can then be used to pay for studies towards a promotion or another career, and the experience helps in gaining knowledge. One paying to help get to the other.
Some of the possible paths:
Training and apprenticeship:
Even though it is important to study to get into some of the animal careers, most of the skills you will need as a technician will be acquired through practice. This means that you will learn how to perform some of the daily tasks by actually doing it a few times and learning the steps.
In some cases entry level positions require training sessions even before you are allowed to actually perform your job duties. These sessions are offered by the place of employment, after you have successfully applied.
Apprenticeship is also possible where you need to learn skills from a more senior technician or landscape architect.
Join the Landscape Architectural Technologists Group in STEP 8Â to learn more and even interact with the educational institutions that will help you secure your dream career!
Average level of education of all the people who enter the career:
6. Licenses, Certificate, Registration and Professional Associations
Certain animal careers require some form of legal certification to prove that you can indeed do the work, and work with the necessary equipment.
Although not required by law, certifications may help workers establish their credentials and enhance their skills.
Learn more about requirements by joining OZT in STEP 8.
Professional Associations:
7. Where can I study further?
All of the above information will help you understand more about the Career, including the fact that there are different paths to take to reach it. But if you are almost done with High School (Grades 11 or 12), you also need to start thinking about further studies, and WHERE you will study.
See the List of Universities, Colleges and Online Training Academies who offer courses towards landscaping, architecture and design.
8. Join the OZT community
Join us as a special member and learn more about becoming a Landscape Architectural technologist.
Members of the Platform have special access to:
- Info on the best places where you can study (colleges, universities and online)
- Expertly designed advice to prepare you for the career, and links to places where you can gain valuable experience. For some career experience is necessary, otherwise you wont get the job!
- Top notch info on each of the different species you will work with
- Make friends around the world and share knowledge
- Compete and win points, badges, games, prizes and certificates. Be the best of the best, while you learn and prepare!
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