The chapter wants to congratulate all ASLA Student Honor and Merit Award Winners. Honor Award Winners Christine Chang Silvia Viola Breanne Alton Merit Award Winners Sydney Clark Tyler Ellison - ASLA Student Member Additional Photos HERE
One hundred years ago the USDA Forest Service recognized the interest that the public had across the Country for recreating in their National Forests. Forest Service leadership understood that it would be important to consider deliberate planning and design of public campgrounds and other recreation settings and facilities. They hired their first landscape architect (then [...]
ASLA issued a statement expressing its position on the Green New Deal resolution that was introduced last week in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The statement discussed the significant overlap between the broad goals of the climate-related provisions of the resolution and ASLA’s own Blue Ribbon Panel report, Smart Policies for a Changing [...]
An event brought about by Cal Poly SLO student chapter’s ambition to see built works prompted a recent field trip of eight students to local firms and projects in both San Diego and the Southern California Chapter. The field trip, coordinated by SLO’s Chapter President, Tim Gobel; CP SLO Alumni Amanda McCaulley (Project Manager at [...]
Future Landscape Architects of America (FLAA) Launches 2019 Curriculum Challenge Work as an individual or a team and tell us how you would share your love for landscape architecture. Winning lesson plans will be included in the first official FLAA Curriculum launch. All winners will be publicly recognized and student winners will be eligible to [...]
NEW ASLA Career Discovery and Diversity PowerPoint Slides for Member Use Have you been invited to speak about ASLA’s Career Discovery and Diversity efforts? If so, PowerPoint slides will be available beginning today for member use! Just email your request to discover@asla.org indicating the event/purpose, date and intended audience, and you will be given access [...]
Eden, Journal of the California Garden & Landscape History Society by Kelly Comras, FASLA Dorothy Buffum Chandler, the Buffum's Department store heiress and the driving force behind development of the Los Angeles Music Center, was a powerhouse figure in the Southland. In her role as an editor for the Los Angeles Times (her husband was [...]
NUVIS is proud to welcome Pamela Brief, PLA, ASLA as their new Los Angeles Studio Director and Senior Principal. Pamela will be responsible for project team leadership, business development, project design direction, as well as general management responsibilities. She joins the NUVIS team from Pamela Studios Inc., in La Crescenta, CA. As President and Founder [...]
The ASLA SoCal Chapter would like to extend our sincere condolences to the friends, family and colleagues of Grisol Ramirez. We are extremely saddened by the news that we have lost such a wonderful, and talented woman so early in her life. Grisol was a recent graduate of Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture where she [...]
It has been a heartbreaking couple of days as several wildfires have wreaked havoc across Northern and Southern California. The fires have killed over 56 people, wiped out a small town, displaced 250,000 residents, and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. TreePeople offers our thoughts and words of encouragement to the affected residents and fire-fighters [...]
