Definition of "landscape architect" []

• One whose profession is the decorative and functional alteration and planting of grounds, especially at or around a building site. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Beside the river is a six-acre park, designed by the noted landscape architect Paul Friedberg, which incorporates a variety of activities: a boardwalk and a boat dock at the water’s edge, a large lawn for public events, intimate gardens, and waterfalls and fountains, as well as hard surfaces near a historic structure that is turned into a restaurant pavilion, and new retail buildings that create a small festival marketplace."
• "“Each one of these piers covers five acres,” my companion, landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, tells me, “that’s the size of Bryant Park.”"