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! There are five primary areas of responsibility for the conference and WE NEED YOUR HELP. This is a great opportunity to share your knowledge and [...]
During the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in Nashville, representatives from ASLA’s Climate Action Committee (CAC) shared how ASLA is advocating for the landscape architecture community to have a voice in the international conversation on climate action, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s recent [...]
Named for an influential Aboriginal woman of colonial Sydney, Barangaroo is a globally-significant, 22-hectare waterfront renewal project that redefines Sydney Harbour and its Central Business District. Barangaroo is made up of three precincts: Barangaroo South, a mix of office and residential; Barangaroo Central, a mixed-use/recreational space with large [...]
Dreaming. Thinking. Taking Action. Creating. Testing. Leading. Teaching. April Philips will focus on lessons she has gleaned from her multi-dimensional career and why embedding seventh generational thinking into landscape architecture design is the path forward in shaping a more equitable, healthier, and nourished world for people and planet. [...]
The American Society of Landscape Architects has elevated 35 members to the ASLA Council of Fellows for 2021, 2 of them of the Northern California Chapter. Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and recognizes the contributions of these individuals to their profession and [...]
by Matthew S. Bajko Nearly three years after it first weighed in on the proposal to revamp Harvey Milk Plaza, a panel of local art experts has given its support to the latest design for the public parklet in the city's LGBTQ Castro district. At its September 20 meeting the Civic [...]
On September 19, 2021, Emmanuel Gomez, in partnership with @la_bodega_925 hosted @lashijasdelcampo, which is an event that provides laptops to high school age kids of local farmers. @wearelenovo generously donated 28 laptops for the event, and organized a workshop that emphasized education and access to resources. The laptops will [...]
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 [...]
