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Why being a landscape architect is so rewarding

Alumni spotlight | Rui Wang

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Rui Wang

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Rui Wang is a Chinese alumni of Leeds Beckett University, who arrived in the UK in 2008 to study Landscape Architecture. She now works as a Landscape Architect in Wales. In this blog, she describes her life-changing experience studying at Leeds Beckett.

Courses: BA (Hons) Landscape Architecture and Design and MA Landscape Architecture

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you've been doing since you graduated?

I completed the Undergraduate and MA qualifications at Leeds Beckett in 2016 and soon began working in the industry, as a Landscape Architect for Cardiff Council. I worked on creating new and improved parks, playgrounds and sports provision from design to implementation. I recently joined Caephilly Council working as a Landscape Architect within the Sustainability Team.

Finding work as a Landscape Architect has been life-changing for me. It has helped me settle and feel stable, and has allowed me to develop my skills in a profession that I love.

What have been the highlights and challenges of your career so far?

The proudest moments in my career are when I see people enjoying the places I have designed and made. Seeing the benefits to people’s lives and improving the environment that they live in feels so rewarding.

The challenges have been around learning all about legislation and local policy, how to draw working construction details and manage all the documentation that is required when projects are being constructed.

How has your course experience helped you in your career so far?

Looking back, I think that all the experiences on the course helped me in different ways. The design projects gave me an insight into how the whole process works, from doing site surveys to developing design proposals to designing construction details.

The EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) and LVIA (Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment) elements taught me how to assess impacts. The live projects gave me the experience to run community engagement programmes myself.

What's next for you?

I am currently doing my pathway to chartership, which means that I will become a Chartered Landscape Architect. I never stop learning and will carry on studying. I may be back to do a PhD in the future!