This year was the 3rd annual Pre-Lecture Social in the Grove at Stanford University. Bay area landscape architects traveled from as far as San Jose and San Francisco to network and enjoy a drink under Stanford's historic oak trees. There was a special guest appearance by Mark Rios, from [...]
With wine glasses and hors d'oeuvres in hand, members and their guests, along with our sponsors, gathered at Nile Hall in Preservation Park in Oakland on April 25 to celebrate the outstanding work of landscape architects in the Northern California Chapter. This year, twenty seven projects from a strong [...]
BY MICHELLE HORTON Two experts from Stanford's Water in the West program explain the potential impacts on the future of water in California of the proposed plan to downsize the $17 billion Delta twin tunnels project. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week his plan to downsize the Delta [...]
by Alicia Rennoll In 2018, California passed Proposition 68 to inject $4.1 billion into the state and local parks, water infrastructure projects, environmental conservation, and flood protection projects, according to Ballotpedia. Part of the state's plan is to make the great outdoors more accessible to California's growing population. To [...]
by: Siobhan Hussey For this year's National ASLA Public Awareness Summit, I had the opportunity to go out to New Orleans and meet with representatives from each chapter to discuss, collaborate, and learn about what we can do to elevate the profession of landscape architecture through public relations and [...]
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by: Robin Wander The university is upgrading the 82-year-old facility while preserving its iconic past. In the summer of 2017, renovation construction began on Frost Amphitheater, a venue that holds a special place in the hearts of all those who were lucky enough to attend an event there since [...]
by: Allie Carter California is rich in a number of natural resources including oil, natural gas, wood, and water. Of all the aforementioned, water is by far the most precious, especially considering that, according to the EPA, the average American family uses up to 320 gallons of water in [...]
by Sofie Bates The order of arrival determines which invasive grasses predominate, according to a combination of experiments and computational modeling. The results could help in efforts to preserve the native plants that remain. Rolling golden hills are an iconic landscape in California, but these golden grasses aren't native [...]
by: Jared Green Linda Jewell, FASLA, is the recipient of the 2018 ASLA Medal, the 2008 Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, and the 2007 Bradford Williams Medal. Jewell is professor emerita of landscape architecture at the University of California at Berkeley, where she was chair from 2006-2010 and partner [...]
