By Damian Holmes, on July 22nd, 2010
According to the ASLA Business Survey
Business conditions for landscape architects appear to be stabilizing, according to the latest American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Business Quarterly survey. For the second quarter in a row, over half of landscape architecture firms reported steady or above levels of billable hours and inquiries for new work – representing [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 15th, 2010
Recently OLIN Studio won the 2010 ASLA Landmark Award and to celebrate the award placed a video on Youtube titled “What do you love about Bryant Park?”
[SOURCE: Youtube]
By Damian Holmes, on June 16th, 2010
Two great videos that promote the profession of landscape architecture and what it is and isn’t. Video was created by the St.Louis Chapter of ASLA. Great to see ASLA chapters promoting the profession. Got any recent videos we should know about? Email damian@worldlandscapearchitect.com
SOURCE: Youtube
Video Creator: St.Louis Chapter of ASLA
By Damian Holmes, on March 27th, 2010
American Planning Association (APA) President Bruce Knight, FAICP, at the United Nation’s Fifth World Urban Forum (WUF) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil announced the Sustaining Places Initiative will focus on the role of planning in addressing the entire set of human settlement issues relating to sustainability.
The initiative will establish a Sustaining Places Task Force that [...]
By Damian Holmes, on March 23rd, 2010
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the selection of veteran journalist Bradford McKee as the new Editor-in-Chief for Landscape Architecture magazine, the landscape architecture profession’s national magazine of record [...]
By Damian Holmes, on December 16th, 2009
Susan Szenasy posted on Metropolis an article titled “United We Stand” in which she recalls some government officials giving encouragement at a recent NeoCon East annual trade show that there is “a new day for government design”. Szeasy goes on to talk about the importance to design of the recent $5.5 billion allocation to General [...]
By Damian Holmes, on November 5th, 2009
As WLA reported recently – today is the launch of Guidelines & Performance Benchmarks of the Sustainable Sites Initiative. You can download the 233 page report from the Sustainable Sites website.
Today is also the opening of the Call for Pilot Projects to test various aspects of the Sustainable Sites Initiative Rating System using a cross-section [...]
By Damian Holmes, on October 30th, 2009
Sustainable Sites Initiative is set to launch Guidelines & Benchmarks on Thursday November 5 and also as we reported during ASLA Annual Meeting 2009 there will be a Call for Pilot Projects launched the same day.
ASLA recently stated that the
The Sustainable Sites Initiative will release the nation’s first rating system for the design, construction and [...]