The Archive is the largest single collection of internationally significant landscape drawings and papers in the UK:

• Much of the material is original and unique

• It includes a series of collections, each attributed to individual landscape architects or practices, who have developed their own personal and often unique approach to landscape architecture

• No two collections are alike in terms of projects or content

Dating from 1929 and the founding of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now known as the Landscape Institute), this collection represents the most intense and innovative period in the history of designed landscapes:

• It reflects the diverse scope of landscape architecture, covering reservoirs, power stations, forests and cemeteries to parks and gardens, housing, universities, factories and new towns

• Landscape architects’ drawings and related papers reveal much about the cultural and social heritage of our designed landscape and demonstrate how landscapes and places can be and have been transformed

• The work includes masterplans and presentation drawings, elevations, sections and construction details, preliminary sketches, maps, notebooks, diaries, photographs, slides, glass lantern slides, videos, films, and records such as correspondence, job files and business records

  
  

The Archive also includes the corporate records of the Institute of Landscape Architects/Landscape Institute: eg membership files, council meeting minutes, constitutions and details of other activities.