• Landscape Architecture as Necessity – September 22 – 24

    USC School of Architecture Los Angeles, CA, United States

    From Thursday, September 22, 2016 To Saturday, September 24, 2016 In just over a week the USC Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program will host the Landscape Architecture as Necessity Conference here at USC (September 22-24). This three-day conference intends to promote intensive debate by bringing together complementary and contrasting positions that have recently arisen around [...]

  • Lecture – Martha Schwartz, FASLA

    Gin d. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall

    Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities, communities and the urban landscape. As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, she has over 35 years of experience as a landscape architect, urbanist and artist on a wide variety of projects located around the world with a variety of world-renowned architects. She [...]

    Free
  • HALS (Historic American Landscape Survey) training at the lovely Virginia Robinson Gardens

    Virginia Robinson Gardens 1008 Elden Way, Beverly Hills, CA, United States

    What is HALS? HALS is the academic record of historically significant American landscapes. The HALS mission is to record historic landscapes through measured drawings and interpretative drawings, written histories and large format black and white photographs and color photographs. HALS builds on the HABS and HAER documentation traditions, while expanding the range of stories that [...]

  • GROUND – Material grounds (Part 1)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND – Working grounds (Part 2)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND -Ancestral Grounds – (Part 3)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND – Archival Grounds (part 4)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND – Shaky grounds (Part 5)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND – Othered grounds (Part 6)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • GROUND – Broken grounds (Part 7)

    Virtual

    an interdisciplinary series on the ground’s many manifestations and meanings While a primary medium for landscape architects’ physical intervention, the ground has remained muted in discourse and action despite its many manifestations and capacities – to stir, to connect, to remember, as well as to expose and destabilize. This multifaceted explorative series aims to excavate [...]

  • 2023 ASLA Student Honor and Merit Presentations – USC

    USC School of Architecture Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Students will present their projects to five (5) jurors. ASLA is committed to fostering equity and inclusion within our profession, membership, staff, and leadership, and as such would hope to have our jury reflect this commitment. Encouraging diversity involves celebrating difference based on gender, race, sexual orientation, sexual identity, culture, or identity.

  • Designing for Resilience With Shalini Vajjhala

    USC School of Architecture Harris 101

    Climate resilience is often narrowly framed around avoiding the worst harms of climate change. In this talk, Shalini will offer a broader perspective on how designing for resilience can help expand our ambitions for our public infrastructure systems — creating beautiful spaces that generate multiple social, economic, and ecosystem benefits and protect against that ‘once [...]

  • USC School of Architecture Presents: Kotchakorn Voraakhom

    USC School of Architecture, Verle Annis Gallery

    Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a pioneering Thai landscape architect renowned for her expertise in designing public spaces that address the climate crisis in dense urban environments. She led the creation of Bangkok's first critical green infrastructure project, Chulalongkorn Centenary Park (top left), and has since brought her vision to life through several groundbreaking works, including the [...]