Learning Landscape Architecture through Park(ing) Day “We need you to design a mini park that can fit in two adjacent parallel parking spaces.” This was the design challenge we gave to our summer interns this year at Keller Mitchell & Company in observance of Park(ing) Day, 2021, an [...]
posted by Amelle Schultz For more than two decades Ayers Saint Gross has annually published a poster featuring campuses from colleges and universities around the world. We assemble this collection as a way to support these institutions in finding their common ground and celebrating their unique differences. We believe [...]
by Joshua Yeager What was once a lush forest is now a "moonscape." At least a tenth of the world's mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada late last year, according to a draft report prepared by scientists with [...]
We would like to congratulate the members elected to the ASLA NCC Executive Committee for the 2021-22 term! They will join 2021-22 President Siobhan Hussey and Past President Krista Van Hove, CCASLA Representative Ric Hendricks and Trustee Amy Cupples on the Executive Committee. The committee is entirely dependent [...]
Since 1994, the Presidio Trust has worked with its partners the National Park Service and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, community partners, and thousands of community volunteers to transform the historic Presidio of San Francisco into our country's first financially self-sufficient urban national park site. To achieve [...]
To Celebrate Pride Month, the Bay Area Landscape Architecture Resources Community is featuring the Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco by Donna J. Graves & Shayne E. Watson. This detailed guide highlights a variety of influential people, places, and movements and offers suggestions for preserving [...]
In her lecture, “Advocacy By Design: Urgency to Act Now,” Mia Lehrer, FASLA will discuss how, in recent decades, accelerating numbers of people are sounding the alarm about global climate shifts, human and wildlife migration, and worldwide socioeconomic inequity. The root causes are many–including colonialization, systemic racism, [...]
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations. Disclaimer: [...]
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap. by Eric Klinenberg In New York, Kate Orff will use oyster reefs to mitigate storm surges.Photograph by Thomas Prior for The New Yorker On a windy afternoon in [...]
Landscape Architecture Foundation Board members Jim Stickley, ASLA (Principal, WRT) and Brian Jencek, ASLA (Senior VP, HOK) will present the LAF's New Landscape Declaration and conduct a discussion with leading thinkers in the academic and practice fields of landscape architecture. Join our panelists in examining issues of [...]