Join us in congratulating Walker Young from UCLA. Walker received a Merit Award in this years 2020 ASLA Student Honor and Merit Awards. The virtual award ceremony will take place on Sunday, October 11. Jurors for the UCLA Awards included Anne Jones, Viriditas Design; Deborah Richie-Bray of Richie Bray Landscape Architecture and Cheryl Lough of [...]
Retail is no longer simply retail. Retail is now all about the experience. Throughout Southern California, we've seen brick and mortar stores and restaurants close their doors, open new locations, relocate to shiny new mega-developments, upsize and downsize their leasable square footage, renovate their spaces, and explore rebranding in an effort to stay relevant in [...]
Presented by John Bela.
Green Schoolyards America is organizing working groups around the idea of using outdoor school space, parks, and other outdoor areas to provide places for students to go to school. In addition, they are working with the Lawrence Foundation, Ten Strands, and others to match currently unemployed nature and informal science educators with schools to mutually [...]
PARK(ing) Day 2020 is the perfect time to bring fresh ideas and the landscape architect’s skill to the streetscapes already being altered in response to the pandemic—and that may remain in place well past the current emergency. This year’s PARK(ing) Day challenge is to explore the design of imaginative curbside spaces for restaurants, businesses, recreation, [...]
Located at 636 Eye St. NW, American Society of Landscape Architects’ headquarters totaling 12,600 square feet, was built in 1995 and completely renovated in 2016 with a focus on maximizing energy efficiency, occupant health and comfort and sustainable design. Architecture firm Gensler and landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates partnered to build a [...]
Shawn Maestretti and Leigh Adams of Studio Petrichor presented about the growing climate crisis, solutions, and empowering people to protect natural and living systems. Embracing real-life solutions, accessible to homeowners, garden enthusiasts, communities, municipalities, and landscape professionals, this presentation is timely and informative and engages the audience to provide a blueprint for inspired actions.
August 26, 1945 - July 16, 2020 Michael L. O'Brien, Landscape Architect and former city planner for 28 years with the City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, died July 16, 2020 at his home in Echo Park, California. He was 74 years old. Michael studied Linguistics at the University of Kansas and received [...]
ASLA has selected Torey Carter-Conneen as our new chief executive officer. We're beyond excited to have Torey coming on board on August 31. Torey's selection marks the culmination of a year-long process that collected input from the ASLA Team in Washington, leaders from partnered and allied organizations, various stakeholders throughout the industry, and all of [...]
Big news today from Washington: the president signed the Great American Outdoors Act into law. This law will permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and provide much-needed funding to restore our parks and public lands by addressing severe maintenance backlogs. ASLA advocated for these provisions for years, and not only [...]
