by Colette Curran The Bay Area Landscape Architecture Resources Community (LARC) is excited to share our most recently recommended book, Braiding Sweetgrass , by Robin Wall Kimmerer, with you. Thank you, Patricia Algara, for recommending this book. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi [...]
Thank you to those that joined ASLA-NCC along with Patricia Algara, Principal of Base Landscape Architecture and Natalie Martell, from Fletcher Studio, this summer for a tour of the Parklab Gardens, which is one of San Francisco’s most popular gathering places for fun, food and games in the heart [...]
We would like to congratulate the members elected to the ASLA NCC Executive Committee for the 2022-23 term! They will join 2022-23 President Lucas Shellhammer, Past President Siobhan Hussey and CCASLA Representative Ric Hendricks on the Executive Committee. The committee is entirely dependent on the volunteer efforts of members [...]
BY JOHN RAMOS SAN FRANCISCO -- Each weekend in San Francisco for the past six months a different street has been closed to traffic to allow residents to come out and play. It's a program called "Sunday Streets" and it has been wildly popular. Now, some are proposing [...]
by John King The very name is a corporate branding exercise. Your contemplation of serene landscapes can be shattered by tech bros striding by in loud conversation. There are a lot of people in yellow windbreakers wearing caps that say “SECURITY.” I acknowledge all this in advance, as well as the weirdness of [...]
by Tessa McLean, SF Gate Staring out at the Golden Gate Bridge on a sunny summer morning as fog swept slowly through the towering orange beams, a shudder of anger ran through me. This sweeping vista from the new Tunnel Tops park had not only been obscured from pedestrians [...]
As part of this year’s ASLA Legacy Project in connection with the national ASLA Conference and Expo right here in San Francisco, our co-chairs are helping fold into our profession a number of high school and college students. The students will be working with mentors, volunteers and landscape architects [...]
by Joel Berman Stanford is stepping up its wildfire management efforts in response to changing weather conditions that are increasing the length and severity of California’s wildfire season. The university’s work includes a comprehensive and coordinated vegetation management effort around campus supported by a new wildfire management plan designed [...]
Outdoor lighting is increasingly being asked to go beyond mere illumination or navigation. There’s new demand for its design to impact people on a deeper level—to make us feel welcome, safe, productive, confident and connected. That’s the inspiration behind SHUFFLE, a smart and multi-functional lighting-based system that leans into [...]
Thank you to those that joined us in April for a walking tour of San Francisco’s newest park – the Presidio Tunnel Tops – before it opened to the public. The $120 million project is the final step in the two decades long transformation of the Presidio’s northern [...]
