ASLASD Members Quoted in U-T Article
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 [...]
Stewardship Committee Hosts Workshop on Low-Impact Development Solutions
The San Diego ASLA Stewardship Committee hosted an educational Workshop to Discuss Low-impact Development Solutions on April 30, 2015 at Silver Gate Yacht Club on Shelter Island. This Storm Water Management and Creative Low Impact [...]
WS Radio.com Interviews Tim Smith, ASLASD President
Tim Smith, President of the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), is joined by landscape architects Ilisa Goldman and Kurt Carlson, to talk about ASLA’s mission, the benefits of sustainable [...]
Balboa Park’s Trees are Dying in the Drought
Nobody can say exactly how many, but trees in Balboa Park are dying, according to park advocates and city officials. Years without hard rain have weakened the trees, many of which do not belong in [...]
Stormwater Management / Creative Low Impact Development Program – April 30
The San Diego ASLA Stewardship Committee will be hosting an educational event on April 30 at Silver Gate Yacht Club on Shelter Island. This Storm Water Management and Creative Low Impact Development event, is a [...]
Art on the Land: Planning San Diego
At the end of the 1800s the city of San Diego was not like any other major U.S. city. Enormous in acreage, the streets were still unpaved. With miles of oceanfront, there were no beaches [...]
Art on the Land: Talent and teamwork transforms the Embarcadero
Around 1850, William Heath Davis, a founder of “New Town,” laid out the city and built a large warehouse and wharf to accommodate ships, hoping to draw people to his new San Diego settlement, which [...]
Art on the Land: The airport’s landscape continues to evolve
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 [...]
ASLA Member Project, Barrio Logan Sign, in the U-T
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 [...]
2014 Design Awards Event Honors Supervisor Ron Roberts
The American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter, announced their 2014 Design Awards at an awards event— Celebrating the Power of Place—on Dec. 4 at the new Central Library. These awards are the ultimate [...]