… LA is a multi-disciplinary field, incorporating aspects of: botany, horticulture, the fine arts, architecture, industrial design, geology, earth sciences, environmental psychology, geography, and ecology." Still confused? (Confusion is the first stop on the path to enlightenment….) Frederick Law Olmsted is said to be the father of landscape architecture. Good old Fred began using the phrase as early as 1863. He adopted a primary and continuing view of landscape architecture as a profession emb …