Northern California is facing a set of regional challenges, ranging from fires, floods, and loss of biodiversity - to homelessness and urban flight in once vibrant downtowns. As we have always, local landscape architects are meeting the moment developing impactful solutions to address our most pressing environmental issues. The [...]
CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK NEEDS YOU! ASLA-NCC is urgently looking for a local representative to the national climate action network! Join with industry leaders from around the country to develop ways to deploy ASLA’s Climate Action Plan at the local level. If interested contact Elizabeth Boults eboults@asla-ncc.org.
ASLA-NCC members, families and friends bundled up on March 16th for the sixth annual ASLA-NCC Sharks Hockey Night. Our San Jose Sharks are played against Seattle Kraken. Attendees mingled at a pregame celebration at the SAP Center Penthouse Plaza with food and drinks. https://youtu.be/cIbU0XWokLY
Immediate Past President of ASLA Eugenia Martin, FASLA, will discuss the 1973 report on Women in Landscape Architecture by the ASLA Board of Trustees Task Force headed up by the late President Darwina Neal, FASLA. Looking at contemporary data on enrollment, employment, and licensure, Martin will consider the progress [...]
Explore how Olmsted shaped Stanford University in California. by Cathy Blake Stanford University (Job No. 01032) is located in California’s Silicon Valley and is intricately intertwined with its history. When railroad magnate and former California Governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane lost their only child, Leland, Jr., to [...]
Thank you to those that joined us for an evening of celebration in December to applaud our members' efforts and congratulate our 2022 Chapter Fellow, Adam Greenspan. There was also a tribute to Amy Cupples for her dedication to the Executive Committee for the last 12 years. She [...]
Meyer Studio in Berkeley created a unique exhibition in December where models and drawings of 3 projects embodied David Meyer’s intrigue with spaces that somehow touch the human spirit. While the show included ‘Limelight’, a winning commission for England’s Westonbirt Festival of Gardens along with ‘After Maximus’ a reimagined site in Rome, [...]
In 2008, ASLA introduced the Legacy Project as a gift to the host city of the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture. After the conference, ASLA exhibitors donate plants, products, services, and equipment to support the project, allowing ASLA to give back to the city that hosts the conference. The [...]
ASLA-Northern California is excited to be the HOST CHAPTER for the 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture to be held in San Francisco, November 11-14, 2022! WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are seeking ASLA members to assist with The Host Chapter Booth and the Women in Landscape Architecture Walk. The Host [...]
ASLA Elevates 27 Members to the Council of Fellows The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has elevated 27 members as ASLA Fellows for their exceptional contributions to the landscape architecture profession and society at large. Election to the ASLA Council of Fellows is among the highest honors the [...]
