Derek Lovejoy (1925-2000), a renowned American landscape architect, in his 1966 speech at the Royal Society of Arts recounted the challenge he experienced in the project of Pakistan’s presidential complex: there was no landscape architect in Pakistan to provide him any local support. However exaggerated Lovejoy’s discontent may sound, the practice of landscape design as a modern profession has only emerged very recently in Pakistan. During the 1950s only a handful of professional architects were practicing in West and East Pakistan, and they often took responsibility for only the landscape design of their own project, which tended to be limited to design settings of individual buildings. The current conception of landscape architecture as a large-scale endeavor to articulate natural elements and ecological settings within their urban context was nonexistent before the 1990s.