ASLA-NCC Annual Presidents’ Reception save the date, December 3rd.
On Tuesday night, December 6, ASLA-NCC held its annual Presidents' Reception at the new Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. We celebrated the investiture of our 2016 Fellows-Cathy Blake, Tom Leader, David Meyer, and Gary L. Strang-and honored our Jot D. Carpenter Medal recipient, Chip Sullivan. A jazz quartet comprised [...]
This past year was an eventful, highly productive and distinguished one for the Northern California Chapter. We made progress on all fronts with a very dedicated Executive Committee team. We focused on our goals of advocacy, leadership, education and communication. Advocacy Chiye Azuma from ASLA-NCC served as President of [...]
Climate Change: One-on-One  ASLA-NCC was pleased to host a panel of environmental designers and design activists who engaged our members in a conversation about climate change in a way that recognized the issue is not just a global one, but a human one. Sponsored by StopWaste.org, the well-attended [...]
CCASLA is the acronym for the California Council of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Its membership is comprised of two elected members from each of the four California Chapters of ASLA (San Diego, Southern California, Sierra and Northern California). Collectively, the members of CCASLA work together with the [...]
As a founding principal of MIG, Inc., Susan Goltsman, FASLA, was an internationally recognized expert in designing and programing inclusive environments for children, youth and families. She created and tirelessly advocated for environments that promote social and economic equity and contribute to our physical, creative, emotional, social and intellectual [...]
Three out of the four teams selected to compete in a San Jose based design competition are members of our local chapter. Congratulations to CMG, Meyer Silberberg and WRT. The competition is to redesign St. James Park, a 7.4-acre downtown park and was sponsored by the City of San [...]
by Derek Schubert, ASLA; SCTT Coordinator The Sierra Club Tree Team (SCTT) plants and prunes public trees in Oakland, and we are looking for some landscape architects and their friends to help us keep up the good work. Planting or pruning with us on the weekend is a great [...]
At the upcoming annual meeting in New Orleans, ASLA-NCC member Chip Sullivan will receive the Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal for significant and sustained excellence in landscape architecture education. In his nearly 30-year career in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, [...]
We would like to congratulate the members elected to the ASLA NCC Executive Committee for the 2016-17 term! They join President Elizabeth Boults and Past President Marybeth Harasz and CCASLA Representative Cathy Blake on the 2016-2017 Executive Committee. The committee is entirely dependent on the volunteer efforts of members [...]
by Jennifer Ng At the ASLA lecture presented on Thursday, 9/15, James Lord (Surfacedesign), Jeanette Hill (DES), Rene Bihan (SWA), and Sara Peschel (Ground works) discussed their firms' business development strategies and project values. James took the audience through Surfacedesign's progression through the years and demonstrated how relationships and [...]