After a year of planning and organizing we’re happy to report Southern California ASLA just pulled off one of the largest ASLA Annual Meetings ever! With over 6500 attendees, we’re now on the books as the second largest annual meeting, beating out Chicago and narrowly missing San Francisco. I’m honored to have served as Southern [...]
ASLA Southern California joins with ACE Mentor Program for this year's Leagcy Project with Santee students.
Southern California Chapter Member, Ron Gregory brings to our attention an article featured in November's Issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. A colleague and licensed landscape architect Shelly Solomon is also a biologist, water quality restoration specialist and an environmental filmmaker, with many years experience in resource and environmental planning, design, and compliance. Solomon has documented [...]
Congratulations to AHBE Landscape Architecture - the winner of the So Cal ASLA Chapter PARK(ing) Day contest for their installation in DTLA. The concept for their Parklet according to the project team was "to create an immersive landscape experience in Downtown Los Angeles that looked at what kind of benefits 200 sq. ft. of wild [...]
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced its 38 professional award recipients for 2017. Selected from 465 entries, the awards recognize the best of landscape architecture in the general design, analysis and planning, communications, research, and residential design categories from the United States and around the world, plus the Landmark Award for a [...]
ASLA is creating activity books as a supplemental career discovery resource to Landscape Architecture Magazine's YOUR LAND, a special print issue for young readers, and your help is needed! Do you have a local site that would work great for the activity book? ASLA is looking for site proposals to be developed and designed at [...]
ASLA and the Local Government Commission (LGC) will lead the sixth annual Parklets initiative at the 2018 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference. The conference program will span three days, hosting a national audience of local elected officials and city and county staff; state and federal agency leaders; professionals in planning, transportation, public health, landscape [...]
Population growth of people of color in the United States has outpaced that of white Americans for the past two decades, and by 2043 the U.S. Census Bureau projects the nation to become a majority-minority nation. The shifting demographics of our nation are not reflected in the field of landscape architecture where African Americans and [...]
As California Lawmakers and Governor Jerry Brown work to hammer out an affordable housing deal that includes a multi-billion dollar bond measure, they're also negotiating a parks and water bond that would advance at the same time. The Governor and Democratic Leaders have said their first order of business once the Legislature returns from summer [...]
On June 15, over 100 ASLA members, friends and colleagues kicked off the summer for the 3rd Annual BMLA/ASLA BBQ at the offices of BMLA, Inc. in Corona. A Santa Maria Style BBQ of Tri-Tip, Chicken and other offerings were cooked up by Baxter and Debbie Miller. Thank you to our musical DJ for the [...]