The State Legislature returned to Sacramento on January 6 to begin the 2025-2026 session in earnest. 35 of the members elected in 2024 have never held a seat in the Legislature before. When taken with the 37 new legislators elected in 2022, the Legislature is experiencing its most significant turnover in a decade with over [...]
The Southern California Chapter celebrates this year's ASLA Honor and Merit Award Winners. Merit Awards: Judah Braman Olivia Reichert Gracie Mitchell Honor Awards: Henk Veld Kacie Fetzer Ayver Libes Thank you to our Jurors: Baxter Miller, FASLA - President, BMLA, Inc. Jack Kiesel, ASLA - Founder and Principal, Kiesel Design Brian Brodersen, ASLA, Principal/Owner of [...]
Do you have innovative ideas or cutting-edge projects that could inspire others? We want to hear from you! Submit your abstract and join us at the 2025 California Green Building Conference to help shape the future of sustainable design and construction. Ready to share your expertise? Choose from these engaging formats. Collective Impact: Share your project in a 10-15 [...]
The southern California Chapter welcomes Tracy Wolk to the role of HALS Liaison. HALS Liaisons are ASLA volunteers appointed by their chapter presidents who provide technical and other types of assistance to carry out the mission of the HALS program. Learn More Here about HALS here Tracy is a landscape designer based in [...]
As of this writing, more than 170,000 Los Angeles County residents are under evacuation orders and warnings. The Palisades fire, the first and largest of the multiple Santa Ana wind-fueled wildfires to break out across the region since January 7, has spread to nearly 24,000 acres—an area larger than Manhattan—and remains just over 20 percent [...]
As of January 2, 2025, the amendments to the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO) have been approved by the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) and are effective upon filing with the Secretary of State and are in effect. The final *.pdf text of the MWELO regulations can be found online here, and related rule-making [...]
Since elected as Chapter President for the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, I have been very eager to get started on my year long term! Together, we continue to navigate through the overwhelming realization that humankind holds the responsibility for treating our planet better: both in terms of our physical [...]
Thank you for the privilege of serving as Trustee of the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Returning from the 2024 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. in mid-October, I had the honor of representing our chapter on the Board of Trustees (BOT). It was one of the best-attended conferences [...]
The 2024 jury consisted of Stacey Isaac, ASLA, Landscape Architect; Bob Borthwick, Emeritus ASLA formerly of Borthwick Guy Bettenhausen; David Dahlke, ASLA of Studio MLA; and Zinni Zhang, ASLA of Fiore Landscape Design BSLA Winners Gabriel Stein - BSLA Honor Award Daniel Lopez- BSLA Honor Award Naui Olin Tanatuh Munoz, BSLA Honor Award Victoria Bruno, [...]
On Saturday, April 27, the chapter's leadership held their spring face-to-face meeting at the Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens in Long Beach. While many of the business meetings are virtual throughout the year, at least twice per year the leaders are able to come together for team building, collaborating and bonding. Topics included [...]
