As a founding principal of MIG, Inc., Susan Goltsman, FASLA, was an internationally recognized expert in designing and programing inclusive environments for children, youth and families. She created and tirelessly advocated for environments that promote social and economic equity and contribute to our physical, creative, emotional, social and intellectual [...]
Three out of the four teams selected to compete in a San Jose based design competition are members of our local chapter. Congratulations to CMG, Meyer Silberberg and WRT. The competition is to redesign St. James Park, a 7.4-acre downtown park and was sponsored by the City of San [...]
by Derek Schubert, ASLA; SCTT Coordinator The Sierra Club Tree Team (SCTT) plants and prunes public trees in Oakland, and we are looking for some landscape architects and their friends to help us keep up the good work. Planting or pruning with us on the weekend is a great [...]
At the upcoming annual meeting in New Orleans, ASLA-NCC member Chip Sullivan will receive the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal for significant and sustained excellence in landscape architecture education. In his nearly 30-year career in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, [...]
We would like to congratulate the members elected to the ASLA NCC Executive Committee for the 2016-17 term! They join President Elizabeth Boults and Past President Marybeth Harasz and CCASLA Representative Cathy Blake on the 2016-2017 Executive Committee. The committee is entirely dependent on the volunteer efforts of members [...]
by Jennifer Ng At the ASLA lecture presented on Thursday, 9/15, James Lord (Surfacedesign), Jeanette Hill (DES), Rene Bihan (SWA), and Sara Peschel (Ground works) discussed their firms' business development strategies and project values. James took the audience through Surfacedesign's progression through the years and demonstrated how relationships and [...]
"I Advocate," 2016 Submitted by Elizabeth Boults, ASLA On May 19, 2016, four representatives from the Northern California Chapter participated in ASLA Advocacy Day in Washington DC. Marybeth Harasz, Amy Cupples, Joanna Salem, and Elizabeth Boults joined hundreds of other ASLA members who met with their House and Senate [...]
By Carmen Erasmus Pablo Alfaro, Micaela Bazo, Kushal Lachhwani, and Anna Thompson. The 2016 ASLA-NCC student awards were presented by Carmen Erasmus at UC Berkeley's Reception for Graduating LAEP students at Blake Garden on Sunday, May 15. Earlier this month Elizabeth Boults and Dave Mitchell [...]
By April Philips, FASLA On an unusual rainy Saturday in May a group of intrepid urban sketchers met in Washington Square, umbrellas and sketchbooks in hand, to participate in an afternoon of on location sketching and café hopping. Led by drawing champions Chip Sullivan and Jim Richards with a [...]
By Jon Wreschinsky, CCASLA Delegate As reported in the last newsletter article, CCASLA has been working with our allied design professional organizations in support of passage of Senate Bill 885 (Wolk) - Construction contracts: indemnity. To refresh your memory, the Bill as currently proposed would specify, for construction contracts [...]