Architectural Digest: ASLA Residential Design Awards→

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Architectural Digest: ASLA Residential Design Awards

Each year, the American Society of Landscape Architects honors outstanding projects around the world, particularly those that incorporate careful stewardship of the land. Shown here are 2014’s award winners in the residential design category, with sites that range from rooftops to ranches and from Napa to New England.

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Alyssa Ross attends the 2014 Advocacy Summit in St. Louis

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the 2014 ASLA Advocacy Summit in St. Louis, MO put on by ASLA Government Affairs on behalf of the Idaho/Montana Chapter.  We spent a fair amount of time on Saturday focusing on how to host a site tour with elected officials and policy makers to showcase landscape architecture and how our designs can benefit a community. This was demonstrated with a site tour downtown of the award winning City Garden as an example. Other discussions focused on how to build relationships with our state Department of Transportation and the State Licensing Boards as well as Federal Impacts on Transportation Policy.

Sunday we focused on the tools and resources that ASLA provides for Advocacy and how chapters can utilize them along with how all of our states are currently handling advocacy. To wrap up we worked in groups to come up with elevator pitches to briefly describe what Landscape Architecture is.  We had a wonderful group of 36 individuals that attended the event and it was a very motivating, positive experience overall.  

Alyssa Ross

Secretary, IMASLA

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Education

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES™) is dedicated to fostering a transformation in land design and development practices to bring the essential importance of ecosystem services to the forefront of decision-making and implementation. Current predictions and economic analyses anticipate that green-building industries will see a dramatic acceleration in market size, and the adoption of SITES as industry practice will meet the acceleration of market demand for sustainable practices. To aid in this transformation, SITES is now implementing many professional education programs and materials that provide distinct learning opportunities for all those in the land design and development industries. This audience includes individuals and entities engaged in landscape design, development, policy-making, research, education, construction, and maintenance, including, but not limited to:

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  • Membership organizations, such as: ASLA, AIA, APA, ISA, AICP, USGBC, GBCI, ASCE, World Green Building Council, and the International Living Future Institute
  • Academia, such as: deans, professors, and students

The SITES educational programs and materials are available for any audience and are tailored with specific knowledge for those groups. This newly informed skill set, geared towards sustainable land design and development practices, will efficiently target learning objectives while minimizing the redundancy or irrelevancy of information presented. Many of the programs available will provide opportunities for professionals seeking to earn continuing education credits for their specific credentials.