Task Analysis CLARB Releases Survey Results FAIRFAX, VA Earlier this year, thousands of Landscape Architects were called upon to participate in the 1998 Task Analysis Study of the Profession of Landscape Architecture, conducted by the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB). According to Chair Vincent McDermott, the study was conducted because "registration boards need to know what services the profession is currently performing and what knowledge and skills are required to perform those skills. They also need to separate those functions which affect the health, safety and welfare of the public from those that do not." The most remarkable trend identified in the study appears to be the strength of the mainstream of Landscape Architecture. When compared to CLARB's 1991 study, it is clear that there has been little change in the composition of the profession, the nature of services provided and the types of projects with which Landscape Architects are primarily involved. Yet, while it appears that what Landscape Architects do has not changed much in the last seven years, how they do what they do is changing rapidly. In 1991, 52% of Landscape Architects worked in a traditional landscape architectural firm. Now, only one in three work in such a setting! In the future, most Landscape Architects will work in multi-disciplinary design firms employing ten or fewer people; in the majority of cases they will be the only licensed Landscape Architect in the firm.