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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]