The Southern California Chapter wants to congratulate the 2019 ASLA Student Honor and Merit Award Winners from Cal Poly Pomona! Honor Award Winners Tatsuyuki Suenaga Rachel Wells, Student ASLA Merit Award Winners Ana Rahm Marc Escobar, Student ASLA Nayon Kim, Student ASLA Adrian Cruz, Student ASLA For Additional Photos View Here
April 27 ASKETCHLA Meet Up with Students and Members
ASLA So California joined Cal Poly's Firm Day on April 9
On March 5, 2019 the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development and Assembly Committee on Business and Professions held their joint sunset review oversight hearing for CAB and LATC. Members from CAB and LATC addressed the Committee, lead by Senator Steven Glazer & Assemblymember Evan Low, while John Nicolaus and I represented the [...]
The mission of the ASLA Environmental Justice Professional Practice Network (EJ PPN) is to provide a forum for ASLA members involved in, inspired by, and interested in pursuing environmental justice through education, research, and practice. The EJ PPN leadership team invites you to contribute to our growing body of knowledge. We want to learn about [...]
One hundred years ago the USDA Forest Service recognized the interest that the public had across the Country for recreating in their National Forests. Forest Service leadership understood that it would be important to consider deliberate planning and design of public campgrounds and other recreation settings and facilities. They hired their first landscape architect (then [...]
ASLA issued a statement expressing its position on the Green New Deal resolution that was introduced last week in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The statement discussed the significant overlap between the broad goals of the climate-related provisions of the resolution and ASLA’s own Blue Ribbon Panel report, Smart Policies for a Changing [...]
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 [...]
