As this year comes to a close, we take this opportunity to congratulate all of our 2020 ASLA Honor and Merit Winners! USC: Jing Wu, Merit Award; Al Ju Liu, Honor Award UCLA: Walker W. Young - Merit Award Cal Poly Pomona: Daniel Scheir - Merit Award; Sancho Cagulada - Honor Award; Jin Eilene Gold [...]
Mia Lehrer, founder and president of landscape architecture and urban design practice Studio-MLA (formerly Mia Lehrer + Associates), has been nominated by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to the powerful L.A. Department of Water and Power (LADWP) Board of Commissioners. The naming of Lehrer as LADWP Commissioner set the stages for a board composed entirely [...]
Congratulations to Chapter Member, Pamela Brief who has been appointed to the Landscape Architects Technical Committee by Governor Gavin Newsom. Pamela is a Landscape Architect and President and Founder of Pamela Studios, Inc. since 2012. Her prior extensive experience includes award-winning domestic and international projects with such notable firms including POD; Emmet Wemple & Associates; The Jerde [...]
Our students are our future. The ASLA Fund is launching our Students Grow Here campaign that focuses on our future landscape architects. Landscape architects play a vital role in climate change mitigation —and that’s why we’re sending current and upcoming graduating landscape architecture students to reVISION ASLA 2020. Students Grow Here is our way of [...]
Presented by Niki Brice and Mary Kay Schaffer of David Silverman Associates (DSA)
Student Member Campaign Last week, ASLA launched the “What I Found at ASLA” student member campaign inviting landscape architecture students and students in affiliated programs to join ASLA for FREE. Students who join will have access to the nation's top network of landscape architecture professionals, a members-only mentorship program-where they can learn from top professionals [...]
Join us in congratulating Walker Young from UCLA. Walker received a Merit Award in this years 2020 ASLA Student Honor and Merit Awards. The virtual award ceremony will take place on Sunday, October 11. Jurors for the UCLA Awards included Anne Jones, Viriditas Design; Deborah Richie-Bray of Richie Bray Landscape Architecture and Cheryl Lough of [...]
Retail is no longer simply retail. Retail is now all about the experience. Throughout Southern California, we've seen brick and mortar stores and restaurants close their doors, open new locations, relocate to shiny new mega-developments, upsize and downsize their leasable square footage, renovate their spaces, and explore rebranding in an effort to stay relevant in [...]
Green Schoolyards America is organizing working groups around the idea of using outdoor school space, parks, and other outdoor areas to provide places for students to go to school. In addition, they are working with the Lawrence Foundation, Ten Strands, and others to match currently unemployed nature and informal science educators with schools to mutually [...]
PARK(ing) Day 2020 is the perfect time to bring fresh ideas and the landscape architect’s skill to the streetscapes already being altered in response to the pandemic—and that may remain in place well past the current emergency. This year’s PARK(ing) Day challenge is to explore the design of imaginative curbside spaces for restaurants, businesses, recreation, [...]
