Sustainable Design
Chris Roesink (Hunter Industries) and Raul Avila (FX Luminaire) hosted a site tour of Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens on Thursday, May 23. The event featured a tour of San Diego’s first [...]
Sustainable Landscape Maintenance Panel Discussion
A panel discussion about creating and maintaining sustainable landscapes sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (SD ASLA) and San Diego Chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA). [...]
Great Tour and Informative Brunch at Village Nurseries
On September 20th, the Emerging Professionals teamed up with the Social Activities Committee for a MeetUp tour of Village Nurseries by Suzie Weist. The event began with a walking tour of the landscape center which [...]
Inspiring Lecture at Balboa Park
CEO of Grupo de Diseno Urbano (GDU), Mario Schjetnan, FASLA, came to Balboa Park on Sept 9th to speak about his work. Mario inspired the packed crowd with his more recognized work in urban parks [...]
Art on the Land: The art of urban planning
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, [...]
ASLA SD Calls for 2014 Design Awards Entries
The San Diego Chapter of the American Society Landscape Architects is conducting the 2014 Design Awards Program to recognize professional excellence for outstanding works of landscape architecture and environmental planning. “The ASLA design awards are the [...]
Art on the Land: What’s up at the waterfront
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 [...]
Residential Committee Summer 2014 Activities
Recently many ASLA Residential Committee members gathered with our AIA and ASID partners at design professional mixer event hosted by PIRCH at their showroom in La Jolla. PIRCH provided an amazing location and an abundance [...]
Art on the Land: Making a first and lasting impression
For those who travel by air from city to city, state to state, country to country, or continent to continent, the airport is their first impression of the place they are visiting. Its architecture, physical [...]
Residential Committee Spring 2014 Activities
ASLA Landscape Architect Residential Practitioners together with AIA and ASID residential practitioners collaborated again for the Spring Home & Garden show in the “Ask the Experts” booth. The goal for our combined organizations group was [...]