April 23, 2013
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via Jesse Stemmler and Rachel Hill, Mt. Hood Section Co-Chairs
WHAT: Green Roofs 2.0 - The Next Generation of Technology and Design
WHEN: May 16th, 12:00-1:30pm
WHERE: Lobby of the ASA Flats and Lofts, 1200 NW Marshall Street, Portland, OR
COST: $10 ASLA Members / $14 Non-Members
LIMIT: 15 person maximum
Take a break from your day and join us for the 2nd edition of the Urban Green series. The experts at Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services are leading a noon-day tour of two of Portland’s signature green roofs. Via a walking tour of the roofs in the Pearl, we will explore burgeoning technologies and practices in green roof design while discussing the lessons learned from past projects. Don’t miss this opportunity to join fellow landscape architects and green roof experts to explore the green roof design, trends, and technologies that shape our building-top spaces.
Contact Jesse Stemmler for more information.
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Urban Green PDH Event Homepage
April 1, 2013
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ASLA Oregon Chapter is pleased to announce our 2013 Symposium and Design Charrette event to be held in Portland, Oregon: THE NATURE OF SPACE
with presenting sponsor LANDSCAPEFORMS
and keynote speaker DAVID ALUMBAUGH
The nature of space is fundamental to how we design, interpret and plan our living environments. This symposium seeks to address current trends, issues and research on transformative spaces, adaptive reuse, spatial planning in landscape ecology, urban interventions and evolving issues related to how we perceive and interact with the environment.
STREET SEATS DESIGN CHARRETTE
June 14, 2013, 10:00am - 5:00pm @ Portland State University Shattuck Hall
1825 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201
SYMPOSIUM KICKOFF SOCIAL
June 14, 2013, 5:30pm - 7:30pm @ The Original
300 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204
THE NATURE OF SPACE SYMPOSIUM
June 15, 2013 7:30am - 5:00pm @ The Leftbank Annex
101 North Weidler Street, Portland, OR 97227
For more information and to Register vist
The Nature of Space Design Charrette and Symposium Homepage
April 1, 2013
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ASLA Oregon Chapter Symposium and Design Charrette
February 17, 2013
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via Jesse Stemmler, Mt. Hood Section Co-Chair
WHAT: PDH Series with Guest Speaker Steve Dotterer
WHEN: March 12 at 7:30pm
WHERE: Jack London Pub, 529 SW 4th Ave, Portland
Hip shopping centers on MLK. Streetcars bringing people out to their “rural” subdivision dream on Hawthorne. A highway on Fremont?! We work in a contemporary Portland context every day but how did it come to be? How do we learn from the past while maintaining ties to these historical forces and spaces in design and planning?
Steve Dotterrer has over 30 years of planning experience with the City of Portland where he was the former transportation planner. Steve’s extensive historic knowledge and image filled presentation will make you see the city through new eyes - a perspective that looks both in the past and to the future.
Contact Jesse Stemmler for more information.
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August 19, 2012
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via Joyce Jacson, Mt. Hood Section Co-Chair, ASLA Oregon Chapter
Mt Hood Chapter September 13th Event:
Tour of Cistus Nursery on Sauvie Island
“Cistus offers Mediterranean climate, southern hemisphere, hardy tropical plants, and more”.
If you are interested in finding unusual and interesting plant material come to ASLA’s MT Hood Chapter meeting at the Cistus Nursery on September 13.
Nursery owner Sean Hogan (aka as one of the Indiana Joneses of the botanical world according to garden writer Sharon Cohoon) and staff member Sutter Wehmeier, will share their passion for plants and introduce or reintroduce some unusual plant material that does well in our climate. Tour the nursery on your own and then spend an hour listening to Sean and Sutter describe some of the plants they are excited about. After that mingle with your colleagues in the front of the nursery, around some lounge chairs, and perhaps a small wood fire for some refreshments and good conversation.
1 PDH Credit Available
Thursday, September 13, 2012
22711 NW Gillihan Road, Portland, OR 97231
Carpooling is encouraged!
Agenda:
4:30 -5:00 - Wander independently through the nursery
5:15- 6:15 - Tour and talk
6:15- 7:00 - Conversation and questions
Free for members, $10 for non-members
PLEASE RSVP by September 6th to: joycejackson3215@comcast.net
May 7, 2012
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Tour the June Delta Key Community Center –
A Living Building Challenge Demonstration Project
If you attended or missed but wanted to attend the Living Cities, How Do We Get There? session at the recent ASLA Oregon symposium and want to learn more about the living building challenge process, come to the MT Hood chapter meeting at the June Key Delta Community Center on May 31st.
Architect Mark Nye will be there to discuss how this community center was developed from an old gas station site and how it was transformed into a community asset with minimal environmental impacts.
Topics will include:
• An overview of the building and site’s fulfillment of the Living Building Challenge ‘petals’.
• Transformation of a brown field site to a usable property.
• Inclusion of the community in the programming and design process.
• Provisions for opportunities in urban agriculture and food education
• Collecting and reusing stormwater on site.
Spend an hour on the tour and then mingle with your colleagues at the Community Center.
(2) HSW PDH's are being offered at this event!.
Thursday, May 31 2012
5940 North Albina Ave., Portland, OR
Agenda:
5:30-5:45 - Gather together
5:45-6:45 - Tour and talk
6:45-7:45 - Social hour
Cost:
Free!
Maul Foster Alongi will be sponsoring the event by providing snacks and drinks.
Please RSVP to this event!
For more information and to RSVP email Joyce Jackson:
jjackson@maulfoster.com
March 17, 2012
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National Landscape Architecture Month 2012 (NLAM) Quick Links:
NLAM HOMEPAGE
NLAM PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
NLAM POSTERS FOR DOWNLOAD
CAREER DISCOVERY ACTIVITIES
NLAM 2011 RECAP
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 AND YOU
04.26.12 THE UNDERSTORY
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!
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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:
- Two out of every three American adults twenty years or older are overweight or obese (Flegal, 2010).
- Since 2000, antidepressants have become the most prescribed medication in the United States (Olfson and Marcus, 2009).
- In 2007, 16 percent of the United State’s gross domestic product – $2.3 trillion – was spent on health care (Orszag and Ellis, 2007).
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
January 10, 2012
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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).
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2012 sponsorship opportunities
2012 supporting sponsor - only $100!
Your company name will be featured on the event program!
February 4, 2010
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Living Wall and unique Oregon Garden Wetlands system lecture.
February 9th @ 6pm†presented by Erin Muir from
SPROut at the Oregon Garden:
 
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Erin will be discussing SPROut as a Phytotechnology resource for Landscape Architects. Â SPROut's mission is to develop and promote the strategic use of plants (phytotechnology) to provide ecosystem services and solve environmental challenges in managed landscapes.
This lecture will include discussion of:
- The living wall at the Oregon Garden that was designed and fabricated through SPROut. - including how it is constructed and what we have learned so far from it.Â
- The 17 acres of constructed wetlands at the Oregon Garden, which are filled with treated wastewater from the city of Silverton. In addition to providing irrigation for the plant collections, and diverse wetlands habitat, the cleaner water coming out of the wetlands returns safely to the local watershed to enhance riparian habitats downstream. Â
- An overview of the main topics and/or projects covered at the ‘Soak It Up’ conference regarding Phytotechnology that are relevant to the field of Landscape Architecture. Please visit http://www.sproutoregon.org/ for more information on the organization.
When:
Tuesday, February 9th 2010, 6:00pm
Where:
Group Mackenzie 1515 SE Water Avenue, Suite 100, Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: Free to OR-ASLA members; Non-Members: $20, Emerging Professionals (0-5 years) $10
PDH credits available.
