From the First Thanksgiving to Olmsted’s Legacy
Centuries after the Pilgrims dropped anchor in Plymouth, MA, the colony became the site of an Olmsted Brothers-designed Country Place Era estate. Learn More Here
Featured Sponsor: Angelus Paving Stone
Landscape Architects may know Angelus Block Co., Inc. for its line of concrete masonry units, Proto II Wall System and Angelus Wall System, but did you know Angelus has been manufacturing interlocking concrete paving stones in Southern California for more than 35 years? It began under the banner of Perma Concrete producing on one machine [...]
Retail Development: A Catalyst for Public Space
Retail development is a catalyst. It's synonymous with all things capitalist. It's the primary driver of commerce and economy, of housing and density, of transportation infrastructure and mobility, and operates both within private and public realms. It's inherently a public space as the population of our communities are the core of its function and purpose, [...]
Congratulations to ASLA Student Honor and Merit Award Winners for 2020
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, FASLA Tapped for L.A. Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners
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 [...]
Pamela Brief, ASLA In The Spotlight
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 [...]
Students Grow Here Campaign
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 [...]
Webinar: Key Aspects of Pedestrian and Pathway Lighting for Landscape Architects
Presented by Niki Brice and Mary Kay Schaffer of David Silverman Associates (DSA)
What I Found at ASLA?
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 [...]
Congratulations to our UCLA Student Merit Award Winner
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 [...]