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 [...]
On Saturday, September 17, the 2016 Quality of Life Awards Jury convened at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel for a day of debate and discussion of this year’s project award submissions from firms all over the ASLA Southern California Chapter. Jury participants were: Deborah Weintraub, AIA, LEED AP Chief Deputy City Engineer, Chief Architect [...]
Andy Bowden, Principal at Land Concern, Ltd. and outgoing Chapter President has been reappointed Chair of the Professional Practice Committee by ASLA President Elect Vaughn Rinner. A national committee, the ASLA Professional Practice Committee works to provide landscape architects with the most effective professional practice tools that enrich their knowledge and, in turn, enhance the [...]