According to the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), nature-based solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were created as a global effort ...

PROJECT STATEMENT Seven people per hour make the Puget Sound region their new home, with this population explosion impacting biodiversity, social equity, and human health. Compounded by the challenges ...

Background and Context The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International Airport Leonardo da Vinci, the main Mediterranean ...

Objectives and Challenges The site is a narrow linear 14-hectare (34.6-acre) band located along the Huangpu River waterfront in Shanghai, China. This brownfield, previously owned by a steel factory ...

PROJECT STATEMENT Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park provides a new model for tropical urban hydrology through the instrument of landscape infrastructure, addressing Singapore’s dual need for water supply ...

ASLA is founded in New York City with 11 charter members, including one woman, Beatrix Farrand. The first ASLA Annual Meeting also takes place. First ASLA chapter is founded in Boston; as of 2024 ...

Native plants offer aesthetic and ecological benefits for residential landscapes. They are crucial to restoring local ecosystems, increase biodiversity, and provide ideal habitat for wildlife. Due to ...

The call for 2025 nominations is now closed. New is the ability to submit images with the Knowledge, Leadership/Management, and Service categories. For those categories, a nominee should submit up to ...

Become a Landscape Architect Landscape Architecture Education and Career Development Landscape architecture combines art and science. It is the profession that designs, plans and manages our land.

Landscape architecture is well positioned to address the most fundamental challenges faced by communities, cities and nations. In order to respond to these challenges, theory and practice must be well ...

Announced at the ASLA 2024 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. As landscape architects, we have a profound responsibility to design spaces that respect and regenerate the land. To ...

Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California is an extension of the 200-acre desert retreat of Walter and Leonore Annenberg. The Annenbergs commissioned the California modernist architect ...