Answer : Graduate from an accredited US school of landscape architecture. Then have the Landscape Architecture Registration Exam completed successfully. If you are a newer graduate, this will require five years to complete. Introductory ideas typically include: plan views, aerial views, site layouts matching or against local natural features such as streams or lakes, good plantings and design of walkways, equipment arrangement and specifications for layout, documentation pertaining to drainage considerations for a variety of soil types, support materials like paving stones or bricks that match structural fabricators.