"Landscape architecture" Is a profession that plans, designs, repairs, manages, and develops natural and cultural values of urban and rural landscapes to preserve them economically, ecologically, aesthetically, and functionally.

In this context, the profession's working areas are: It ranges from the design of open public spaces such as gardens at different scales, city parks, sports fields, and streets-squares to studies at planning scales such as creating open/green space systems in cities, conducting ecological risk analyses, and carrying out studies focused on the conservation-use balance in natural areas. While carrying out these studies, the relationship between space and time and the individual/society affected by the study are always considered.

The profession of Landscape Architecture emerged after the Industrial Revolution, at a time when the unconscious consumption of natural and cultural resources began to be noticed. The quality of life decreased with rapid and unplanned urban growth and was first introduced in the USA in 1863 by F. L. Olmsted and C. Vaux in New York's Central Park. He is known for designing the. Afterward, studies on the structuring of landscape architecture education were initiated. In this context, Landscape Architecture education was started in the USA in 1901 with a program for landscape architecture at Harvard University. Following this university, landscape architecture departments were opened within different faculties in Türkiye and other countries.

The European Landscape Convention (APS), adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2000, was brought to the agenda at the "Landscape Protection" conference held in Florence, Italy. By APS, the first international agreement on landscape, it was emphasized that the changes in the landscape should be noticed and that we should act on a common platform. For this reason, it was decided to take joint measures for better landscape protection, management, and planning. APS is a convention that ensures the protection, development, restoration, planning, and management of the diversity and quality of European landscapes. According to this convention, LANDSCAPE means an area whose character, as humans perceive, results from the action and interaction of natural and human elements. It is also defined as the appearance created by natural and cultural assets that can be viewed from a point of view.

APS has brought to the agenda the necessity of giving due importance to landscapes. Therefore, this landscape architecture department opened within Bursa Technical University, a new-generation university, aims to carry out successful projects that can fulfill the APS requirement and train enterprising and innovative landscape architects and academicians who command technological possibilities, research, question, and production.