Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects，香港園境師學會

The Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects (HKILA) was founded in April 1988. The organization of the landscape architectural profession was first established with the founding of the Hong Kong Landscape Group operating as a chapter of the Landscape Institute of United Kingdom. In the interests of maintaining and promoting local standards and services, the HKILA was inaugurated in 1988 as the professional body for those engaged in the practice of landscape architecture in Hong Kong, with the main aim of promoting the highest standard in the arts and sciences of landscape architecture and management throughout Hong Kong. A mutual professional recognition with Australia Institute of Landscape Architects and New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects was established in the next year. The legal status of the HKILA was confirmed and objectives of the HKILA were defined with the enactment of the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects Incorporation Ordinance in 1996.

As Hong Kong building professionals were facing more complex design and technical requirements, practicing professional landscape architects felt the need to make effective regulations to monitor practicing landscape professionals of different backgrounds and diverse qualifications in order to raise the professional standard. All members of the HKILA voted in 1995 in favor to establish a landscape architects registration ordinance via a private bill. With the assistance of Hon. Leg Co Member HO Shing Tin representing the Architectural, Planning and Surveying Constituency at that time, the Landscape Architects Registration Ordinance (LARO) CAP. 516 was finally adopted in May 1997 after two years of consultation and legislative process. HKILA subsequently set up a committee to appoint members to the Landscape Architects Registration Board (LARB). The LARB was formally established in August in the same year, aiming to develop professional standards for local and overseas landscape architects practicing in Hong Kong and to provide registration service for them. Through the registration system, the general public could recognize the qualified landscape architects and to protect the profession’s highest standards.

With the establishment of the HKILA, adoption of LARO and setting up of the LARB, and provision of master/bachelor degree programs of landscape architecture/studies in the University of Hong Kong and Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, the professional services provided by the landscape architects in Hong Kong become more consolidated and standardized. Recently, those graduates educated and trained in the overseas and local have gradually replaced those expatriate landscape architects came to Hong Kong in the early years. Localization of the landscape profession in Hong Kong has been leisurely taken shape and developed into a professional body with local talents as the mainstream manpower.

Contact Details

The Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects

Phone: +852 – 2896 2833

Fax: +852 – 2896 3938

Email:secretariat@hkila.com

Mailing Address: West Wing 2/F, 822 Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Website:www.hkila.com