Moving from Common Practice to Best Practice to Leading Practice

Landscape architects use a set of processes and approaches taught at universities and institutions as the common approach or common practice expected by clients, the community, and the larger design industry. These processes are seen as the minimum for a designer to meet the expected industry standard. Of course, expectations differ depending on the place, country, and industry maturity in the project location.

Over the past few decades, the term “best practice” has become part of client and designer jargon to define or market their design process, approach or projects and was seen as a way to move the design industry forward. Often the expectation or interpretation of best practice can differ; however, it has become expected by the clients and communities that designers were applying “best practice” so much as to become written into project briefs and contracts.

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