April 26, 2022, marks the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted — author, journalist, public official, urban planner and founder of American landscape architecture. Olmsted and his successor firms designed thousands of landscape projects across the country. His democratic vision of public parks and their capacity to bring communities together is more important than ever. [...]
IT'S BACK! For the first time since 1996 the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo is coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20 - 23, 2017. Common Ground, the theme for this year's Annual Meeting, is an opportunity to celebrate with thousands of landscape architects and allied professionals who work every day to [...]
A native Californian and beloved Southern California Chapter member, Troller was born and raised in Glendale. While studying landscape architecture at University of California, Berkeley he worked at the San Francisco offices of Eckbo, Royston and Williams, drafting and designing graphics. Royston convinced Troller to pursue an M.L.A., which he received in 1950. Returning to [...]
We want to congratulate the 2017 Student Honor and Merit Award Winners who were awarded on Saturday May 27 at the 60th Anniversary of Cal Poly Pomona. Amanda Camille Flores - Honor Chase Conk - Honor Luis Pedraza Cardozo - Merit Andres Gustavo Raygada - Merit Kristin Misa Sullivan - Merit Iliana Valenzuela - Merit
A vital new resource, the NACTO Urban Street Stormwater Guide illustrates a vision of how cities can utilize one of their best assets—streets—to address resiliency and climate change. The guide outlines the strategies to creating streets that serve as truly public spaces, while delivering social and economic value, protecting resources, and reconnecting natural ecological processes. [...]
USC's 2017 Student presentations were held on Saturday, April 22. Facilitated by our Liaison to Students, Carlos Flores, juror participants included, Steven Chavez (Juror, SCA-LARC), Samuel Kim (Juror, SQLA, Inc.), Martin Armstrong (Juror, Rain Bird), Kathy Wishard (Juror, LRM Landscape Architecture), and Evan Mather (Juror, AHBE Landscape Architects). Representatives from USC included: Esther Margulies (Associate [...]
During a recent visit to the Texas Chapter Annual meeting, Joan Archibald from Old Town Fiberglass ran into a few EXPO participants and Texas Chapter members who look forward to seeing us for the ASLA Los Angeles Annual Meeting and EXPO!
On April 29, ASLA Leaders meeting for their Mid-Year business meetings in Washington, DC took time out to participate in the People's Climate Movement March in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people, including landscape architects, not only participated in the People's Climate Movement March in Washington, D.C., but other cities around the country to demonstrate opposition [...]
A special treat each spring for the Student Leaders, the Annual Field Trip was held on Saturday, April 1st. Student leaders from the chapter's four landscape architecture program (Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, USC and UCLA) all attended. Others who attended this year included VP Liaison to Students, Carlos Flores; Past VP Liaison to [...]
As I’m certain all of you know, we’re in the midst of planning for the 2017 ASLA Annual Meeting in October! The Southern California Chapter and Los Angeles are looking forward to hosting the largest gathering of landscape architects and affiliated professionals in the world. Our chapter co-chairs, Andy Bowden and Baxter Miller, have been [...]
