Approximately 130 people turned out on Monday, February 27 for "A Conversation with Women from Cal Poly Pomona Landscape Architecture". Held as part of the Cal Poly Pomona Department of Landscape Architecture's 60th Anniversary celebrations, the department hosted a screening of the documentary "Ruth Shellhorn: Midcentury Landscape Design in Southern California.” The documentary was followed [...]
On Saturday, February 11, Southern California members came together to help judge the Texas Chapter award submissions. Over 80 projects were submitted in design, planning, communication and research. Those members who participated were Gary Fishbeck, Landscape Architect; Brett Miller from BMLA, Inc.; Aeryn Donnelly from the City of San Clemente; Jeremy Klemic from SWA Los [...]
The Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF) has released the New Landscape Declaration, a bold vision and 21st century call to action for landscape architecture. The Declaration is the synthesis of the ideas from LAF’s historic Summit on Landscape Architecture and the Future, which brought 700 landscape architects to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia last June. [...]
The National Park Service, in partnership with the American Society of Landscape Architects, decided to give Laguna the designation, allowing it to join the ranks of more than 700 sites similarly honored across the United States, according to a news release from local advocates.
A series of Webinars to help you prepare for the SITES exam is available at a discounted rate to members.
ASLA helped to sponsor the new Dangerous by Design 2016. The new report identifies the most dangerous places in the nation to be a pedestrian, and how changing state and local policies that address transportation planning and design can help address this critical issue. Now in its seventh year, the 2016 edition includes new Pedestrian [...]
The SITES AP Exam has launched and is available at your nearest Prometric location! The chapter with the most people and the chapter with the greatest percentage of their membership that register and take the exam by January 31, 2017 will be awarded a half-day SITES workshop in 2017!!! Please note that all test takers [...]
To date the Campaign for the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture has raised $1,174,319 or 78 percent of the $1.5 million goal from ASLA chapters, firms, and individuals. For more information on the campaign, please see the ASLA Center Honor Roll. Contributions to the ASLA Fund in 2016 total $19,131 to date, an increase of [...]
The Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects celebrated their 2016 Quality of Life Awards at Disney’s Grand Californian Resort in Anaheim on Thursday, October 6, 2016. The theme of the awards this year was "Celebrating the Evolving Vision of California Landscapes". Two hundred landscape architects, green industry and other allied professionals [...]
On September 16th, design firms throughout the county sought out parking spots to transform into pop up parklets for the day in an effort to bring awareness to the need for more urban-oriented park space. ASLA Chapters and their firms were given an opportunity to advocate ASLA’s Park(ing) Day initiative and the profession as curious [...]