Southern California ASLA

CPP - ASLA Honor and Merit Awards Jury
2024-05-03 08:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cal Poly Pomona
Tricia is coordinating jury selection from the membership. Jury members should be full members (not Associate members) and be a member in good standing. Students selected to present need to be ASLA student members.

USC - ASLA Honor and Merit Awards Jury
2024-05-04 09:00 - 11:30 | USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States

LARE 3 Prep Course: Construction Documentation and Administration
2024-05-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Course page and registration information:
https://www.uclaextension.edu/landscape-architecture-horticulture/landscape-architecture/course/lare-3-construction-documentation

22nd Annual California Green Building Conference - USGBC Los Angeles
2024-05-23
Registration Open
Learn More Here

Sunnylands
2024-06-01 10:00 - 14:00
Guided Tour and BYO picnic lunch.
REGISTER HERE

The Shops at Sportsmen's Lodge - A Project Tour
2024-06-08 11:00 - 13:00 | The Shops at Sportsmen’s Lodge, 4234 Coldwater Canyon Ave, Studio City, CA
View Announcement here
Registration here

EVERDE | Landscape Architect and Design Group
2024-06-14 09:00 - 15:30 | EVERDE Growers Fallbrook Farm, 2615 Huffsstatler Street, Fallbrook, CA
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Sketching Social Celebrating Pride Month - Will Rogers State Beach
2024-06-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Ginger Rogsters Beach: Lifeguard Towers 17 + 18, 1770 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica
View Program Announcement Here
Registration Here

Oaks School Greenspace Tour
2024-06-25 18:00 - 19:00 | Oaks Green School

Dodger Night with ASLA SoCal - SOLD OUT!
2024-07-22 18:00 - 21:30

Emerging Professionals - Bi Monthly Virtual Meeting/Lunch Bunch Conversation
2024-07-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Topic: Advocacy 101 for Emerging Professionals

Virginia Robinson Gardens Tour and Presentation
2024-07-27 10:30 - 14:00
Honoring ASLA SoCal’s HALS Project (Historic American Landscape Survey)
Guided Tour of House & Gardens; Free Parking & Shuttle to Venue; Lunch on the Pool Terrace and HALS Team Presentations.
ADVANCE RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. We are celebrating the HALS project and volunteers led by ASLA SoCal’s very own Alison Terry, PLA, HALS Committee Chair over 3.5 years! Lunch is provided with registration!
Registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virginia-robinson-gardens-tour-tickets-927584880347
Full announcement here: HALS-VRG-Visit-05.jpe

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No Chapter Programming - Summer Schedule
2024-08-01 - 2024-08-12, 2024-08-14 - 2024-08-31

ASLA SoCal Emerging Professional Committee (EPC) - August Virtual Lunch Bunch
2024-08-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Topic – Advocacy 101: An Introduction to Advocacy in Landscape Architecture for Emerging Professionals

This virtual lunch session focuses on an introduction to advocacy for Landscape Architecture Emerging Professionals, brought to you by the ASLA SoCal EPC! We are excited to host a presentation, conversation, and Q+A with: Stephanie Landregan and Emily Gabel-Luddy.

Stephanie Landregan, FASLA, PLA, MSPM, LEED BD+C is the Program Director at UCLA Extension Landscape Architecture and our California Council of ASLA Southern California Council Director, and was previously the National VP of Government Affairs for ASLA. Emily Gabel-Luddy, FASLA is an Instructor at UCLA Extension, and the former Mayor of the City of Burbank (2013-2014 and 2018-2019), she was also the former Director of the Urban Design Studio at LA City Planning and a ’91 Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD.

We are honored to have Stephanie and Emily join us in conversation to discuss topics related to advocacy, and hope you join us on Tuesday August 13th from 12-1pm Pacific to discuss: What is advocacy? Why is it important to you, our Landscape Architecture Profession, and our communities? How can we can all advocate and get more involved? Registration is not required, this event is free and open to all to join – Zoom information below:

ASLA SoCal is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: ASLA SoCal Emerging Professionals Committee (EPC): August Lunch Bunch – Advocacy
Time: Aug 13, 2024 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81875875576?pwd=[REDACTED] ID: 818 7587 5576
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Happy Labor Day - End of Summer
2024-09-02

Los Angeles Climate Week
2024-09-08 - 2024-09-15
LAEDC is excited to partner with the first-ever LA Climate Week happening Sept 8-15! With 75+ diverse events (and counting!), there is something for you.
Registrations for the inaugural LA Climate Week are now open! Dive into a week packed with hands-on workshops, conservation projects, networking events, and interactive sessions that turn passion into action. Learn directly from experts, connect with innovators, and discover how you can make a difference in your community’s sustainable future. Learn More Here

Annual BMLA BBQ
2024-09-12 17:00 - 20:00 | BMLA Inc., 310 N. Joy Street, Corona, CA
Save the Date!
Details to Come!

Net Zero Conference 2024
2024-09-17 - 2024-09-18 | Anaheim Convention Center
Verdical Group is pleased to announce that our 2024 Net Zero Conference will be hosted on September 17 + 18 in Anaheim, CA!
Join us for the main conference at the Anaheim Convention Center — directly across from Disneyland! — on September 18, where we will have zero carbon learning opportunities across all industries, exciting keynotes, and an Expo Hall for making new connections. Shoulder events will be taking place nearby on September 17.
Stay tuned for abstract submission announcements, registration launch, and more!

UCLA - ASLA Honor and Merit Awards Jury
2024-09-21 09:00 - 13:00 | A Zoom Meeting
Tricia is coordinating jury selection from the membership. Jury members should be full members (not Associate members) and be a member in good standing. Students selected to present need to be ASLA student members.

ASLA jurors for Sept 21st:

Vinita Pugal, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, Design Director at Designodal
Carlos Flores, PLA, ASLA, Landscape Architect at the National Park Service – RTCA Program
Nanda Raghunathan, ASLA, Principal at TGP Inc Landscape Architecture
Cheryl Fields, ASLA, Senior Landscape Architect, Cheryl Fields Landscape Architecture
Kathleen McKernin, PLA, ASLA, Associate Landscape Architect, Alta Planning + Design, Inc

Addressing Air Quality Impacts in Schoolyards
2024-10-03 11:00 - 12:00
Part of a series, speakers in this session will discuss schoolyard air quality, including air pollution concerns and risks and design features that can improve schoolyard air quality, as well as those that may have an adverse impact. They will focus on considerations and recommendations for planting trees and vegetation at schools to reduce air pollution and protect vulnerable students, while creating vibrant, shaded, living green schoolyards.
Speakers will include Richard Baldauf, PhD, Senior Research Engineer at US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Brent Bucknum, Founder, Hyphae Design Laboratory (Oakland, CA). The session will be recorded and posted to the Green Schooyards website.
We invite school district facilities staff, schoolyard designers, landscape architects, architects, public agency staff, and others who are involved in creating green schoolyards and schoolyard forests or want to learn more to join us for this interdisciplinary series. However, all are welcome!
REGISTER HERE

ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture
2024-10-06 - 2024-10-09
See you next year in Washington DC

LARE 1: Inventory, Analysis and Project Management
2024-10-19 | Virtual
Learn More About this course here

LARE 2 - Planning and Design
2024-10-20 | Virtual

Member Appreciation and ASLA 125th ASLA Celebration
2024-10-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Latin American Art
RESERVE NOW!

Location: Museum of Latin American Art (MOLA)

View Full Announcement Here

LARE 4 - Grading, Drainage and Storm Water Management
2024-11-01 - 2024-11-02 | Virtual
Learn More about this 2-day course here
November 1 – 12 noon to 5 p.m.
November 2 – 8 am to 5 p.m.
Cost: $626

2024-2025 Annual Leadership Retreat and Planning Meeting
2024-11-02 | Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens

LARE 3 - Construction Documentation and Administration
2024-11-03 | Virtual

2024 Green Industry Hall of Fame Awards Dinner
2024-11-07 18:00 - 21:30 | Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), 628 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, CA, 90802
2024 Green Industry Hall of Fame Awards Dinner
Join us on Thursday, November 7th, 2024, at 6 p.m. for a spectacular awards ceremony at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), 628 Alamitos Avenue in Long Beach. This year we’ll be hosting a dinner which will be the backdrop for our fifth annual television extravaganza that will air on the award-winning PBS|KLCS television show, Things Green.
2024 Inductees include: Javier Reyes, Villa Park Landscape; Lisa Smith, The Tree Resource; Robert Stone, NUVIS; Art Ludwick, formerly Rainbird; Inge Bisconer, Surf ‘N Earth Enterprises; James Huston, JR Huston Consulting.
Cost:
$150 per person | Tables of 8 or 10 available
REGISTER HERE
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ExCom Monthly Business Meeting
2024-11-19 17:30 - 18:45
