The Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects celebrated their 2016 Quality of Life Awards at Disney’s Grand Californian Resort in Anaheim on Thursday, October 6, 2016.
The theme of the awards this year was “Celebrating the Evolving Vision of California Landscapes”. Two hundred landscape architects, green industry and other allied professionals gathered to celebrate the chapter’s bi-annual event. Forty-Five Honor and Merit Awards were presented to firms in Orange County, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and the Inland Empire, including 3 student awards presented to students from Cal Poly Pomona and the UCLA Extension program. This year’s jurors were: Deborah Weintraub, Architect, City of Los Angeles Bureau of Engineers; Randal Jackson, President of PlaceWorks; Richard Risner, Principal of Grounded-Modern Landscape Architecture; Marty McPhee; Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Park West Landscape Companies; and Michael Woo, Dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona.
The evening’s other awards included the presentation of a Public Stewardship Award to Landscape Architect, Robert J. Borthwick and a Public Awareness Award to Habitat Design.
For a complete list of all the 2016 award winners, learn more here
