Additional Information for Landscape Architects Society

In Hong Kong and other wealthy enclaves in China, many upperclass Chinese have no qualms about spending big bucks for a top-notch Feng Shui consultant to evaluate their home or office to ensure their space’s energy alignment will boost their fortune. In fact, some multinational corporations have even had to move offices in Hong Kong because the [...]

Street art can be elegant, enigmatic, or just plain goofy. In a new addition to our series of posts on how the built environment can be transformed through new forms of “rebel” or street sports, games, and art work, here are a few new “memes” worth mulling over. Perhaps the urban form of flash-in-the pan Internet memes, which last [...]

It’s not often that a new work of landscape architecture makes it on to the front page of The New York Times, even if it isn’t described as such. In April, that paper ran a story about the successful conclusion to a major local dispute in the Bronx, which had flared up because of the closing of the many [...]

Terreform ONE, a think tank focused on ecological design led by innovator Mitchell Joachim, announced its call for entries for the third annual ONE Prize competition. This year’s competition, Blight to Might, seeks to “put design in the service of disenfranchised communities” by seeking out bold new design ideas that regenerate the underused post-industrial parts of our built environment and create [...]

At ASLA’s advocacy day on Capitol Hill, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Democratic Representative from Oregon’s 3rd District, said landscape architects, architects, planners, and engineers, the “four horsemen of the livability apocalypse,” must work together to create a more positive narrative on Capitol Hill. In an “flat-out broken” political system “disconnected from the realities of what people are demanding,” design professionals [...]