Are you a landscape architecture professional in Oregon? Find out the great local and national benefits that come from becoming an ASLA member!
Join Todayvia Emily Hull, ASLA Oregon Education Chair / EP Committee Co-Chair
The workshop will benefit those preparing to take LARE sections C and/or E for the first time, those who are repeating the exam and seeking more study direction and those interested in connecting with potential study partners.
Download PDF Flyer for More Information
Summer 2012 Emerging Professionals (EP) 101 Series:
Local Innovation in Greenroofs: Wildlife, Plants and Technology
A Green Roof Tour and Roundtable Discussion
6:00-8:30pm
June 13*, 2012 (tentative as we confirm roof tour availability, check back for updates!)
$20 non-member / $15 members / $10 students and emerging professionals
PDH's available!
Hosted by the ASLA EP Committee and Columbia Green this summer's EP 101 Series Event offers a guided green roof tour, showcasing three of Portland’s most noteworthy ecoroofs, followed by a roundtable discussion touching on wildlife, plants and technology. Space is limited to 25 attendees so RSVP today! Attendees will be eligible to receive PDH credits. All are encouraged and welcomed to attend!
Tour stops may include: The Indigo + Multnomah County Library + Ecotrust Building + Ladd Tower
A Portion of this event is a walking tour – bring appropriate footwear and keep an eye on the forecast!
*Note: Date has been changed from June 14 to June 13!
Register as an Emerging Professional (link coming soon)
RSVP Today! (link coming soon)
DONATE $150 to support this event as an EP Continuing ED Sponsor
via Christopher Olin, ASLA Oregon Chapter Communications Chair
April is Landscape Architecture Month!
ASLA Oregon is pleased to announce our Spring 2012 Chapter lineup of Portland Events!
Join fellow like-minded student and professional peers in networking, learning and fun!
To learn more, register for events, find resources and subscribe to our mailing list visit www.aslaoregon.org.
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Join Cascadia Green Building Council May 2-4 for Living Future 2012, where the green building movement’s leading thinkers and practitioners come together to share their deep expertise and dearest hopes, to leap ahead as a movement and as a society. Living Future is where cutting edge practice meets inspiration and where visionaries get down to business. This three-day unConference has earned a reputation as the must-attend event for many of the green building movement's most innovative and influential leaders. This years conference will take place in Portland, Oregon and is themed “Women Reshaping the World”. For more information please go to the Living Future 2012 Website.
For questions please contact Beth Flanagan at beth.flanagan@gmail.com
Quick Links:
Keynote and Reception, Dr. Vandana Shiva
ASLA Oregon LANDbytes MARCH 2012 Feature:
Happy Birthday, FLO!
By Rebecca Wahlstrom
What are you doing on April 26? Join the coast to coast party, celebrating the 190th birthday of Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted with all your fellow ASLA members! April 26 is a day to remember and celebrate the man who first brought to the forefront many of the ideas that we practice today in Landscape Architecture. So gather some friends, blow out some birthday candles for Mr. Olmsted, and make a wish for the continuation of great designs that stand the test of time.
Check out more fun ways to celebrate Landscape Architecture month at www.aslaoregon.org/updates/articles/national-landscape-architecture-month.
ASLA Oregon LANDbytes MARCH 2012 Feature:
Get Ready! National Landscape Architecture Month is Coming!
By Rebecca Wahlstrom
April has been set aside by the ASLA as a month when activities happen nationwide to celebrate and promote the profession of landscape architecture. The focus of this month’s activities is “Public Health and Active Living 2012”, showing how we are addressing the major problems of obesity and chronic health problems due to lack of exercise by designing healthy community structures. This topic is a great fit for our active state – what a perfect chance to show people how we promote healthy lifestyles. Are there playgrounds or trail systems where you can show people how landscape architecture has been part of its creation? How about plaza’s where farmers markets happen or places where people wait to catch the MAX or bus? Can you get out there and let people know who designed that space? Now is the time to celebrate all you have done and promote the future of landscape architecture.
You might be asking, “what can I do?” Glad you asked! ASLA has put forward a whole webpage of ideas for activities along with detailed instructions and tips (and has a picture of Portland’s Mt. Tabor Middle School rain garden design). The below is just a sampling of what the website provides on the ‘Career Discovery Activities’ page. http://www.aslaoregon.org/updates/articles/national-landscape-architecture-month. Boy Scout troops can learn about plants and earn a badge during your time with them; Connect with middle and high-school students and design a rain garden or reading garden; Are you a native plant expert? Visit your local high school and show them how essential native plants are to our landscape.
One doesn’t need to be hampered by this list – create your own activity that will appeal to you and the audience you wish to reach. Back on 8.17.11, the first roll-out of the Understory, the Bend folks led a design charrette, people in Springfield did a workplace information blast to enlighten their co-workers on what their department had accomplished, and Portland canvassed downtown parks. http://www.aslaoregon.org/blog/2011/9/14/dues-increase-effective-january-2012 What will Oregon do this time to celebrate landscape architecture? I believe our fit and active state is primed and ready to show off all that we have done to promote physical activity and public health to the general public and to the nation. Be creative – have fun – and be sure to let people know about landscape architecture in April!
LARE EXAM Spring 2012: We are looking for 1-2 workshop instructors!
Have you recently passed Section C and E of the LARE exam? If so, we need you! ASLA Oregon is looking for practitioners/instructors to lead a one day workshop to assist fellow landscape architects who are preparing for the exam in June. The workshop will be held the end of April/May depending on available schedule.
ASLA Oregon will offer reasonable compensation for your time.
Interested?
contact:
Emily Hull
ASLA Oregon Chapter
Educaton Chair / EP Committee Co-Chair
hulle@pbworld.com
503.417.9364
National Landscape Architecture Month 2012 (NLAM) Quick Links:
NLAM PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED & THE CAMPAIGN FOR PUBLIC HEALTH
APRIL 2012 National, State and Local Activities:
04.04.12 COMMUNITY TREES FIELD CLASS
04.20.12 ASLA OREGON NORTH PARK BLOCK DESIGN CHARRETTE
04.20.12 ASLA OREGON EMERGING PROFESSIONALS SOCIAL
04.21.12 ASLA OREGON ENLIGHTENED LANDSCAPE[S] SYMPOSIUM
04.26.12 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON A&AA CAREER SYMPOSIUM
Questions? Interested in getting involved with NLAM?
Contact ASLA Oregon Communications Chair Christopher Olin for more information!
via ASLA Nationals
A Whole New National Landscape Architecture Month:
Public Health & Active Living 2012
Now is the time. Childhood obesity surges to epidemic proportions, healthcare costs push even higher and divisive politics provide no solutions. Meanwhile an interdisciplinary profession continues to rise offering solutions to these stark problems:
Landscape architects will join across the country during the month of April to educate the public as to how their profession is well poised to address these troubling issues.They’ll hold public events showcasing just what can be done through hands on work with the public, speaking engagements and design charrettes. For an idea, check out this slideshow of 2011’s events.
With the theme of Public Health and Landscape Architecture, National Landscape Architecture Month 2012 welcomes these new and necessary discussions about the profession. Besides all the same great activities from years past, National Landscape Architecture Month joins in the public awareness campaign. On 04.26.12, the profession will publically celebrate Frederick Olmsted's birthday, considered the founder of modern landscape architecture, by once again taking to the streets from coast to coast telling people why landscape architecture matters just as they did on 08.17.11. Since 08.17.11 was just the beginning, expect more this time around. The call to celebrate his birthday could not be more in line with the theme as Frederick Law Olmsted and the Campaign for Public Health points out, Olmsted’s roots in landscape architecture first started with his dedication to public health.
The prevalence of low-density, automobile-dependent communities has resulted in unsustainable lifestyles that increasingly threaten human health and well-being. In addition to inflating housing and transportation costs and increasing carbon emissions, disconnected communities reliant on cars create sedentary lifestyles. The lack of access to environments that encourage daily exercise, provide clean air and water and offer affordable services and nutritious food has meant growing epidemics of depression, obesity, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.
Working with landscape architects, communities can promote human health and well-being by encouraging the development of environments that offer rich social, economic, and environmental benefits. Healthy, livable communities improve the welfare and well-being of people by expanding the range of affordable transportation, employment, and housing choices through "Live, Work, Play" developments; incorporating physical activity into components of daily life; preserving and enhancing valuable natural resources; providing access to affordable, nutritious, and locally produced foods distributed for less cost; and creating a unique sense of community and place.
Landscape architects help communities maximize opportunities for daily exercise like walking and biking. Landscape architects encourage communities to move towards compact, transit-oriented land-uses by designing Complete Streets and other transportation networks that connect mixed-use developments, neighborhood schools, and a range of affordable housing choices. They assist communities in developing healthy green buildings and open spaces that promote efficient water and energy use and provide substantial amounts of vegetation to clean air and cool temperatures. In doing so, these communities can avoid the expensive health epidemics associated with automobile dependence, sedentary lifestyles, along with the high costs to the environment brought by dysfunctional patterns of living.
PUBLIC HEALTH & COMMUNITY DESIGN
With health epidemics associated with sprawl on the rise, there is growing demand for communities that get people moving and reduce the onslaught of depression, obesity, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. Communities can also be designed to reduce traffic fatalities and crime rates. When communities take these issues seriously, they become people-friendly places that promote healthy living and feel safe and secure.
A recent study from the Victoria Transport Policy Institute demonstrates that people who "drive less, exercise more, and live longer, are generally healthier than residents of communities without high-quality public transportation." Lansdcape architects design multi-modal sustainable transportation infrastructure such as public transit, which force people to walk and climb stairs, and well-lit, tree-lined streets with sidewalks and bike lanes, which enable safe and convenient physical activity. These systems provide healthy alternatives to automobile transportation. In addition, landscape architects create parks, green streets, and even green roofs, which encourage physical activity by making outdoor spaces more attractive, cooler, with cleaner air.
Communities can also invest in healthy green schools built along new and improved transportation infrastructure and connected to neighborhoods via sidewalks, bike trails, transit service, and roadways that provide safe routes to school. Landscape architects design green school campuses with indoor and outdoor learning environments, which are also available for community activities.
In addition, landscape architects work with communities to create urban agriculture projects that provide access to safe, affordable, and nutritious food that is locally produced and distributed. These initiatives make productive use of vacant lots and derelict spaces, transforming them into safe environments for youth education and community interaction. They can provide resources for green hospitals where studies have shown that organic food gardens help patients recover faster.
See the full article at ASLA.org
via Kassia Dellabough, PhD
Director, UO A&AA Office of Outreach & Development for Students
You are invited to participate in the 9th Annual A&AA Career Symposium. This is an opportunity to meet with students from the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts and serve as a mentor and assist with their career choices and preparation for their respective Fields. The school has nine departments and programs: Architecture, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Fine Art, Arts Administration, Art History, Product Design, Historic Preservation, and Planning Public Policy and Management. Your candid feedback and advice is invaluable! Students from both the Eugene and Portland campus will be attending. We provide transportation for the Eugene students and they all pre-register.
NEW THIS YEAR!
Recruitment Opportunities - info table displays and individual interviews. Sign up for space. LIMITED SPACE so sign up early! We will follow up directly with you with billing and set up details.
MENTOR SESSIONS:
Select from roundtable topics, small group portfolio reviews or practice interviews all designed as informal mentoring opportunities to assist students in their next steps.
DATE: April 26, 2012
LOCATION: Left Bank Annex, 101 N. Weidler, Portland, OR
SCHEDULE:
9:00 - 5:30 Optional Recruitment Table/interviews
*welcome to participate in regular sessions
8:30 - 9:15 - check-in, coffee & pastries
9:15 - 9:30 - WELCOME
9:30 - 12:30 -MORNING SESSION:
Opt for small group portfolio reviews, practice interviews or round table discussions
12:30 - 1:45 - networking lunch
2:00 - 5:00 - AFTERNOON SESSION:
Opt for small group portfolio reviews, practice interviews or round table discussions. Also a “speed dating” activity
Hope you can join us!
DEADLINE to register, Monday, April 2
Kassia Dellabough, PhD
Director, A&AA Office of Outreach & Development for Students
264 Lawrence Hall
541-346-2621
d:541-346-8272
via the ASLA Oregon Chapter Emerging Professionals (EP) Committee
Hosted by the ASLA EP Committee and Columbia Green, this summer's EP 101 Series will feature a guided green roof tour and roundtable discussion taking a closer look at the wildlife, plants and technology associated with green roofs. A tentative date is set for June 14, 2012 - attendees will be eligible to receive PDH credits.
All are encouraged and welcomed to attend!
Pencil this event in on your calendar today!
June 14, 2012 ASLA Oregon Emerging Professionals (EP) 101 Series
Local Innovation in Green Roofs: Wildlife, Plants, and Technology
Green Roof Tour and Round Table Discussion
Elevate your understanding of landscape by taking it to a higher level. ASLA Oregon invites you to expand your thinking over two days of inspired guest speakers, discussions and a design charrette. Join us for learning and networking opportunities, as well as the opportunity to earn valuable professional development hours (PDH’s).
more information + registration
2012 sponsorship opportunities
2012 supporting sponsor - only $100!
Your company name will be featured on the event program!
On Friday, February 3rd ASLA Oregon and the Student ASLA at the University of Oregon are sponsoring the Nineteenth Annual Shadow Mentor Day. For one day, students will experience the working world of landscape architecture by shadowing professionals. A learning experience for students and practicing landscape architects alike, this event has always been a great success. Students gain valuable insight into the multifaceted work landscape architects do in a day. Some students will see what it is like to work in the office while others will experience a day out in the field.
If you have not received an invitation to participate and would like to, please contact Claire Maulhardt at clairem@greenworkspc.com.
Landscape Architecture Mentor Program
In April 2011, the ASLA Public Practice Advisory Committee posted a note in LAND E-News "Wanted: Examples of Landscape Architecture Mentor Programs." The PPAC goal was to showcase and search for shining examples of Mentor Programs that pair practitioners with students or provide excellent networking opportunities between seasoned and emerging professionals. As a result of the outreach effort, a white paper and matrix are now available with some excellent models for Mentor Programs that involve ASLA chapters, universities, private firms, and local, state, and federal agencies. As a living document, the next action is to include other Mentor Programs that have had great success or are just getting started and are looking for some guidance. Our committee request to each state is to provide us with feedback and let us know how and what your LA Mentor Program is doing. Thank you for adding your successes to this national effort.
Robin Gyorgyfalvy, ASLA, PLA
ASLA Oregon Chapter
Public Practice Advisory Committee Chair, 2011-12
(541) 383-4786
rgyorgyfalvy@fs.fed.us
Download the Mentor Programs White Paper
Download the Mentor Programs Matrix
Landscape Architects still needed for the Architects in Schools Program!
The Architects in Schools Program is still in need of volunteer landscape architects for the 2011-2012 school year! Architects in Schools matches professional landscape architects with 3rd through 5th grade teachers for a 6 week classroom residency at no cost to the schools. The program is based on a curriculum guide that teachers and their partner landscape architect can use to compliment existing curriculum. The curriculum uses architectural concepts to teach math, science, social studies, language arts and other disciplines and includes 'green' designing concepts. Landscape architects can receive 1 pdh for participating. Those who've participated report the experience of sharing their passion with young people to be very rewarding. For applications, questions and more information, please contact Kim Ruthardt Knowles as soon as possible at 503.317.7537 or kim_ais@msn.com. For more information about the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, go to the website at www.af-oregon.org.
The ASLA Oregon Emerging Professionals Committee invites you to to join us this Fall on the rooftop!
Fall EP 101 Series with Columbia Green
October 21st, 2011
5:30-7:30pm
79 SE Taylor, Suire #201,Portland OR 97214
www.columbiagreenroof.com
contact/RSVP: Emily Hull, 503.417.9364, HullE@pbworld.com
Beverages and snacks will be provided!
Please RSVP to this FREE event.
The world needs to know about landscape architecture, and 08.17.11 is the day it all begins.
What if, for just one day, we all decided to let everyone know what the heck landscape architects do. That we create the very places used to live, work and play. That we connect cities. That we create experience. That landscape architecture is your environment, designed.
08.17.11 is that day. It’s the day the profession reintroduces itself to public. It’s the day where, for only your time spent during lunch, you’ll join the beginning of a new movement – a movement to step out of the Understory and tell your story to the world.
Details will arrive soon. But until then, share the movement with friends, coworkers and classmates. The public awaits.
Check out 08.17.11 on Facebook!
Check out a map of nationwide 08.17.11 Events!
Get your "Landscape Architecture: Your Environment. Designed." T-Shirt!
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Launching July 2011, LANDbytes is ASLA Oregon Chapter's premier e-publication showcasing articles, briefs, reviews, spotlights and more!
Featured in this month's launch:
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Surviving the Modern Economy - Oregon Style - By Rebecca Wahlstrom |
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Interested in contributing to LANDbytes? Inquire now and help us gain momentum in an effort to spread awareness for the profession and increase membership values! Have you been searching for a medium to showcase a thought, idea or fresh approach? Are you interested in providing a Member Spotlight or a review of that new book on your shelf? Perhaps you're a guru of current trends in the profession? Do you have an analog or digital technique, tutorial or secret you're willing to share with your peers? Are you a student or emerging professional looking for an opportunity to get involved with your local chapter? |
The ASLA Oregon Chapter Communications Committee is spearheading an effort to revisit, revamp and bring back to life the publication ORegon land, an award-winning publication that has established the Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects as a leading chapter within the society! Until further funding is secured, upcoming efforts will take the form of columns, briefs, reviews and photojournalism features in upcoming Newswires, published on a monthly basis.
Act now on this exciting opportunity to contribute and circulate your creative inklings through our community of like-minded design professionals including landscape architects, architects, students and faculty members, political leaders, ASLA state chapter presidents, and other individuals related to the profession.
Interested?
Contact Communications Chair Christopher Olin for more information.
Stay tuned and look for our launch in the July Newswire!
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
5:00-9:00pm
Hosted by Dave Leckey, Oregon Small Trees Nursery
Wine Tasting with Carabella Vineyard and K&M Wines + Local Cheese Spread
Learn how to ensure plant health and upkeep through sustainable growing practices! Sample local wines and cheeses! Explore a nursery that takes special care with every tree grown!
$10 / $5 for ASLA Oregon members
On March 31st, at the AIA Center for Architecture, the ASLA and AIA Emerging Professionals Committees hosted a FREE movie night screening of Aboriginal Architecture, a documentary featuring expert commentary, stunning imagery and an in-depth look at the diversity of North American Native architecture in seven Aboriginal communities.
Approximately 30 attendees enjoyed pizza, refreshments, networking and a wonderful film.
The event was a success! Stay tuned for our next ASLA+AIA joint venture!
MARCH 2011
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UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTSLANDSCAPE FUSION: 2011 ASLA Oregon Chapter Annual Symposium & Charrette
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The Oregon ASLA and AIA Portland Emerging Professionals Committees are pleased to invite you to join us in the viewing of Aboriginal Architecture, a 93 minute documentary showcasing a unique view into contemporary North American Native Architecture. This film depicts a variety of responses to the more than 300 year absence of Native American Architecture following the imposition of government housing. By touring seven Aboriginal communities - Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish, and Haida - a renaissance of traditional forms, materials, and approaches are presented which meld with the requirements of contemporary life.

 A testament to the importance and inter-related nature of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, please join us for this stunning movie, delicious snacks, and special discussion! See you there!
Download PDF for more information
Join ASLA Oregon as we explore a FUSION of ideas, concepts, and design that will inspire you to see the Northwest landscape in a whole new light. Two days of activities and education sessions led by national and local experts will generate its own unique energy, providing power and passion for attendees, as well as valuable professional development hours (PDHs), networking, and fun!
The Fall Emerging Professionals Workshop & Happy Hour had a great turnout, with 24 attendees including: EP members, ASLA members and nonmembers and persons from other agencies including BES & PBOT. Many participants took advantage of the 1.5 PDH credits and recieved certificates were handed out at end of the tour.
Kandy Welch from Harry L. Stearns gave a demo at the beginning which outlined basic lighting principles and types, and there were several rounds of Q&A prior to leaving for the tour.
Tour:
The tour, stopped and viewed 7 built projects making use of all types of lighting. Kandy answered questions along the way and took foot-candle readings with a light meter.
Happy Hour:
Over half of the group met at Bridgeport for the Happy hour, which was a great networking opportunity for the several EP’s in attendance. Also, several of the seasoned ASLA members called themselves “RE-emerging professionals†and explained they intend to participate in future events... so keep that in mind for future events.
Stay tuned for more Emerging Professionals events in the next year via the web or by joining the facebook page.
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CHAPTER EVENTS |
12.02 | design|spring construction professionals gathering (EUGENE)It’s time for (beer):30! |
12.07 | MT HOOD SECTION: Crystal springs stream restorationCrystal Springs Stream Restoration Date: December 7, 2010 Dennis O’Connor has over 30 years of experience as a landscape designer and restoration ecologist, specializing in stream and wetland enhancement and upland erosion control projects. He has participated in the construction supervision and/or installation of a majority of his projects, whether working with a contractor or a youth crew. He is the author of several publications on drought resistant plants and their use, soil bioengineering, and stream enhancement. Dennis approaches landscape design with an understanding of ecological functions and aesthetic values of natural systems, and the desire to create self-sustaining systems that benefit both the public and natural environment. NEW LOCATION for Mt. Hood Section Events! Upcoming January 11, 2011 at 5:30 pm Permeable Paving February 1, 2011 at 5:30 Urban Greenspaces Information Our goal as the new Mt. Hood section co-chairs is to provide opportunities for members to obtain Professional Development Hours at the section meetings. Please contact Steve Shapiro (steve@shapiro-la.com) or Joyce Jackson (jjackson@maulfoster.com) if you care to suggest a topic. |
12.09 | Emerging Professionals Fall 101 Series Workshop + Happy Hour
Join the ASLA Oregon Emerging Professionals Committee for this educational event in Portland on December 9th featuring a lighting workshop, tour, and ending with a happy hour. We are pleased to welcome parties of all disciplines to our Fall EP 101 Series Event! Join us for an informative workshop session, specialty lighting tour and happy hour! $3 at the door / free to ASLA Members 6:00pm 6:30pm 8:00pm
Join the Emerging Professionals Facebook Group for more info |
l a n d s c a p e f u s i o n | April 15-16, 2011.Please save the date to join us for the next ASLA Oregon Annual Symposium entitled “Landscape Fusionâ€. This will be the premiere landscape architecture event of the year, held April 15 & 16, 2011 in Portland State University’s Shattuck Hall. Highlights include: • Keynote Speaker Walter Hood, FASLA More specifics will be announced in coming weeks. For more information, or to volunteer for the event planning, contact Marianne Zarkin ASLA Oregon Vice-President for Chapter Services at 503.758.3131 / mzarkin@gmail.com or Dana Baisden 503.227.6156 / dbaisden@updatemanagement.com. |
CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS |
in memoriam: Brian mccarthyThe Oregon Chapter was saddened by the news of the passing of Brian McCarthy, Managing Principal of Eugene-based Cameron McCarthy. A memorial service was held on November 14, 2010 at The Shedd Institute in Eugene for Brian David McCarthy of Eugene, who died Nov. 3 from an aortic aneurysm. He was 60. He was born on Oct. 24, 1950, in Pasadena, Calif., to Walter and Betty Blackwell McCarthy. He married Caroline Moore on Aug. 30, 1975, in Portland. Survivors include his wife; his mother, Joan McCarthy, of Newport Beach, Calif.; two sons, Cogan of Oakland, Calif., and Colin of Eugene; and a brother, Robert, of Mission Viejo, Calif. Remembrances to the Pacific Rivers Council. |
recent updates to the blogA selection of links to the Oregon ASLA blog, which has featured a number of recent posts with information related to landscape architecture, at home and abroad. Subscribe to the blog feed to make sure you don't miss any of the great content.
As always, we're on the lookout for news of interest to members, so please links or suggestions to Jason King at jason@terrafluxus.com |
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS STILL NEEDED FOR THE ARCHITECTS IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM!The Architects in Schools Program is still in need of volunteer landscape architects for the 2010-2011 school year! Architects in Schools matches professional landscape architects with 3rd through 5th grade teachers for a 6 week classroom residency at no cost to the schools. The program is based on a curriculum guide that teachers and their partner landscape architect can use to complement existing curriculum. The curriculum uses architectural concepts to teach math, science, social studies, language arts and other disciplines and includes 'green' designing concepts. Landscape architects who've participated report the experience of sharing their passion with young people to be very rewarding. For applications, questions and more information, please contact Kim Ruthardt Knowles as soon as possible at 503.317.7537. Go to the website for more information about the Architecture Foundation of Oregon |
WV Section Call for Volunteers for Golf TournamentASLA Members, Associates & Colleagues: If you would like to volunteer or have any questions about the event, please contact Marina via email at Marina@cmgsla.com or phone at 541.485.7385. |
trustee's report: what's up at national?November 2010 Trustee’s Report from Dave Walters. Some of the highlights from our National Office the past month are as follows: Governance and Administration
Government Affairs
Landscape Architecture Magazine
Public Relations and Communications
Member and Chapter Services
Publishing and Resource Development
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Want to Write for OregonLAND?As part of our expanded communication strategies, we are re-launching OregonLAND in 2011 as an online magazine, with original content, essays, project reviews, and other content relevant to landscape professionals in Oregon. Our aim is to draw from around the region and beyond in developing content that reaches a range of practitioners, academics, and everyone in between in our broad professional sphere. Monthly feature essays will be developed on a range of topics, along with coverage of local design and ASLA events drawing from a wide, interdisciplinary group of contributors. The compilation of content will be curated once per year in a 'best of' edition that will be realized in a web and printed edition that will provide multiple platforms for disseminating information about landscape architecture to potential clients, collaborators, and related professionals. We will kick of 2011 with regular meetings of the editorial group to get this ball rolling. If you are interested in getting involved on editorial staff, to contribute articles, update web content, help with graphic design, track down sponsors, or anything else, please let Jason King know at jason@terrafluxus.com and by phone at 503.481.7826. |
ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES |
12.9 | KENGO KUMA LECTURE - PORTLAND JAPANESE GARDENThe Portland Japanese Garden is hosting world renowned architect, Kengo Kuma, at a free lecture on December 9. I have included some details below and a link to our website for more information – but please share this information with anyone who may be interested and encourage them to make reservations to ensure everyone has a seat!
Kengo Kuma Lecture Kengo Kuma Open House & Display of Design Concepts |
12.11 | civic ecology workshop - damascusThe City of Damascus is hosting a Civic Ecology workshop Saturday December 11, 2010 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
The workshop will be held at Damascus City Hall. Many of you may be familiar with Civic Ecology workshops held around the region. This is an exciting opportunity for us to work with Tim Smith and engage with the community. We hope to integrate this work into our Sustainability Plan and also be a catalyst for community led projects and programs. Download a PDF of the flyer for the event. Questions and/or RSVP to Erika Palmer at the City of Damascus |
The Basics of Furniture and Fabrics for Outdoor Use | January 20, 2011Join us for an afternoon at the delightful Leach Botanical Garden, Portland/ Explore the foundations of furniture and fabric selection:
AND First come, first serve registration begins Download a PDF with more information on how to register. Workshop presented by: |
Re:STREETS CONFERENCE | july 21-23, 2011
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JOB LISTINGSLandscape architecture firms can reach landscape architects across Oregon with an advertisement in NewsWire or on our website. Details click here. |
NewsWire Submittal RequirementsNewsWire is a publication of the Oregon Chapter ASLA. NewsWire is published at the beginning of each month for annoucing information for the following month. All ads and information must be received by noon of the previous Friday for inclusion Please send all submissions questions and comments to Jason King. Keeping Yourself CurrentPlease help us keep our mailing list current. Send updates or corrections of your contact information to info@aslaoregon.org Contact UsExecutive Committee and other contact information is available at the Chapter website. For mailing and other administrative inquiries about the chapter, contact: ASLA Oregon Chapter |
Join the ASLA Oregon Emerging Professionals Committee for this educational event in Portland on December 9th featuring a lighting workshop, tour, and ending with a happy hour.
We pleased to welcome parties of all disciplines to our Fall EP 101 Series Event!
Join us for an informative workshop session, specialty lighting tour and happy hour!
$3 at the door / free to ASLA Members
1.5 PDH credit hours available
6:00pm
rendezvous and basics of lighting demo
greenworks pc, 24 nw 2nd
6:30pm
pearl district specialty lighting tour
led by hl stearns lighting rep kandy welch
8:00pm
emerging professionals happy hour
bridgeport brewpub, 1313 nw marshall
Contact Christopher Olin and by phone at 503.286.7175.
Download a PDF of the flier to share with others here.
Join us for a screening! 
Confluence Project invites local artists, architects, and/or designers living in Oregon or Washington to submit their qualifications for the artistic design of an interpretive pavilion and plaza to complement Maya Lin’s tribute artwork at Celilo.
