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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Located at 636 Eye St. NW, American Society of Landscape Architects’ headquarters totaling 12,600 square feet, was built in 1995 and completely renovated in 2016 with a focus on maximizing energy efficiency, occupant health and comfort and sustainable design. Architecture firm Gensler and landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates partnered to build a [...]
August 26, 1945 - July 16, 2020 Michael L. O'Brien, Landscape Architect and former city planner for 28 years with the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, died July 16, 2020 at his home in Echo Park, California. He was 74 years old. Michael studied Linguistics at the University of Kansas and received [...]
ASLA has selected Torey Carter-Conneen as our new chief executive officer. We're beyond excited to have Torey coming on board on August 31. Torey's selection marks the culmination of a year-long process that collected input from the ASLA Team in Washington, leaders from partnered and allied organizations, various stakeholders throughout the industry, and all of [...]
Big news today from Washington: the president signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law. This law will permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and provide much-needed funding to restore our parks and public lands by addressing severe maintenance backlogs. ASLA advocated for these provisions for years, and not only [...]
