Architektura krajobrazu jako kierunek studiów

According to a contemporary definition, landscape is the physionomy of the earth's surface, here natural and anthropogenic factors are present. A landscape requires protection, recultivation and forming. The landscape architecture as a separate study programe first appeared in 1900 at the Harvard University in the U.S.A. The theoretician Charles Eliot perceived landscape architecture as the art of beauty; its object was to shape and protect beauty of countryside and town settlements. Tadeusz Totwiński, the nestor of Polish town planning, links landscape architecture with spatial planning. Though Polish tradition in education of landscape architecture is over seventy-year, the profession of landscape architect has had its place on the official list of professions since 1995, thanks to initiatives of Warsaw Agricultural University - Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Cracow University of Technology - Faculty of Architetcture. In 1999 the Chief Board of Higher Education approved the minimum requirements for studies in landscape architecture. A graduate of the Department of Landscape Architecture should posses knowledge of landscape shaping, park and garden planning, as well as designing urban and open landscape. He should be prepared to cooperate with the specialists of other disciplines. In October 1999 the master's program in landscape architecture was opened at the Faculty of Environment Engineering and Geodesy of the Academy of Agriculture in Wrocław. The courses are taught in cooperation with the faculty of the University, University of Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. The similar courses were opened in the same year at University of Technology in Cracow and at Agricultural Academy in Szczecin.The longest tradition in education of landscape architects in Poland has Warsaw Agricultural University.