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 [...]
SPONSORED BY ANOVA! Eligible candidates can enter to win a $1,000 grant to fund his or her Landscape Architect Registration Examination during 2019. Ten grants will be awarded! Candidates must be nominated by a licensed landscape architect to be eligible to apply. anovafurnishings.com/2019LAREgrant Once an eligible candidate receives a nomination, he or she may formally [...]
A Participatory Environmental Art Project Many unique globes of the earth created by artists will be linked to their own blog on the Carry the EARTH website. The globes will be passed from hand to hand around the planet inspiring the carriers of the earth to donate actions that help the environment and post their [...]
The application period for the 2019 Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour runs now through October 1. Gardens must be at least 50% California native and within LA County. All the dates and selection criteria is listed on the application: http://www.nativeplantgardentour.org/apply/ Questions? Contact Tour Coordinator Margaret Oakley Otto, (310) 717-7380