Carisa McMullen, CLARB president, and Mónica Pallares, president IFLA Americas Region, sign a memorandum of understanding at the 2023 CLARB Annual Meeting in Henderson, Nevada formalizing the agreement between the two organizations.

Strategic partnership: IFLA Americas and CLARB aim to strengthen landscape architecture profession in western hemisphere

The International Federation of Landscape Architects Americas Region (IFLA Americas) and The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) have entered into a strategic partnership aimed at elevating and uniting the landscape architecture profession across the Americas.

The agreement outlines the two groups’ efforts to work collaboratively on several common goals, including:

• Promote the development of landscape architecture standards for professional registration and education accreditation in Latin American countries.
• Conduct research on topics related to official recognition and regulation of landscape architects.
• Disseminate the findings of the IFLA-CLARB Global Survey of Practice to countries in the IFLA Americas region.
• Support the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in a pilot candidacy for LAAB accreditation. 

In an effort to develop a global definition and description of the practice of landscape architecture, IFLA and CLARB partnered together to conduct a Global Job Task Analysis. Goals included: 

• better understand the profession of landscape architecture across the globe from the perspective of practitioners

• identify how practice is similar or different globally, regionally and nationally

• broaden the scope of the landscape architecture profession, where possible

CLARB joins IFLA as first corporate member

Through membership in the only global body representing the landscape architecture profession, CLARB will have the opportunity to share and exchange ideas with colleagues throughout the five IFLA regions and contribute to IFLA’s efforts to advance recognition of the profession around the world.

As the first corporate member, CLARB paves the way for other landscape architecture organizations, university programs and private practices to collaborate with IFLA’s member associations through education, training, research and professional practice.