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Congratulations to ASLA 2017 Honor and Merit Student Award Recipients from USC

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 [...]

By |2017-05-06T17:02:19-07:00May 6th, 2017|Uncategorized, USC|
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People’s Climate Change March

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 [...]

By |2017-05-03T16:30:46-07:00April 25th, 2017|Advocacy, Industry News, National Landscape Architecture Month, Uncategorized|
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Message From Your Chapter President

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 [...]

By |2017-04-23T13:18:46-07:00April 13th, 2017|Uncategorized|
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ASLA Celebrates World Landscape Architecture Month

April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM), an international celebration of landscape architecture. WLAM introduces the profession to the public by highlighting landscape architect-designed spaces around the world. ASLA is continuing their social media campaign by asking members, firms and the public to post pictures of landscape architecture with #WLAM2017 and a card that reads, [...]

By |2017-04-09T14:39:13-07:00April 9th, 2017|Uncategorized|
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Colorado Licensure

On March 29, the Colorado Senate passed SB 17-218, legislation that would extend landscape architecture licensing and continue the landscape architecture licensing board until 2028. Several days prior to the full Senate vote, the Colorado Chapter testified at a hearing on the legislation. The bill is now before the Colorado House of Representatives and is [...]

By |2017-04-06T13:18:28-07:00April 6th, 2017|Advocacy, Industry News, Uncategorized|
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FHWA Publishes Metropolitan Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Handbook

On March 8, 2017, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Planning published a Handbook, titled "Metropolitan Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning Handbook." The purpose of this handbook is to provide Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) with practical information and examples, as they consider pedestrian and bicycle transportation in their regional planning activities. Based on research including [...]

By |2017-03-24T13:01:12-07:00March 24th, 2017|Advocacy, Uncategorized|
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Regulatory Changes that Could Impact Licensure

Over 4,000 state legislative bills were introduced by late February in Sacramento (a record number for the beginning of the state's two year legislative session). Among the many bills are several measures that could impact many state licensees if legislators decide to make the entry into different professions easier. The upside for the agencies is, [...]

By |2017-03-16T14:34:28-07:00March 16th, 2017|Advocacy, Industry News, Uncategorized|
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