Past ASLASD President, Patricia Trauth, was appointed Friday, June 5, 2015 by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Landscape Architects Technical Committee. The committee establishes standards for licensing and enforces laws and regulations that govern [...]
ASLASD President Tim Smith and member Michelle Landis are quoted in an article featured in the Union Tribune discussing if the drought is killing the lawn. Read the beginning of the article below and click [...]
Continuing her award-winning landscape architecture, Patricia Trauth, principal landscape architect with URS Corp., is applying her expertise to San Diego International Airport’s development on the north side of the airfield, just south of the Marine [...]
Barrio Logan Graced with Gateway Sign Dedication Ceremony Highlights Community Input Artist Hector Villegas grew up in Barrio Logan and remembers when it was “labeled as the place you stayed away from.” Young men wearing [...]
Through evidence-based research, health care providers have come to value the restorative powers of nature. Research has shown that exposure to natural landscapes offers stress relief, enhances mood, increases concentration, and offers an improved sense [...]
Two ASLA members win an Orchid Award for the U-T San Diego Architecture Critiques. Check out the Alexandria Center for Life Science at Campus Pointe by Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects and County Waterfront Park by Hargreaves Associates [...]
The joy of being a landscape architect is having opportunities to do so many different types of projects, from private homes to entire communities. San Diego is filled with gardens and parks designed to commemorate [...]
Vicki Estrada spent lots of time growing up in and around Downtown San Diego. Hand-in-hand with her grandfather, she walked through city streets, from Sherman Heights down to the Harbor to see the tuna boats, [...]
I recently met with landscape architects from San Diego’s Schmidt Design Group, Inc., “landscape architects of record” for the new Waterfront Park on the Embarcadero, for some after-opening stories. Here’s what Glen Schmidt (Principal-in-Charge), Marney [...]
Architects design buildings. Landscape architects design the space the buildings live in and the spaces in between. “To be a landscape architect you have to be part architect, part engineer, part sociologist, part biologist, part [...]
