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The ASLA State Chapters for Michigan, Illinois, Upstate NY, Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects invite you to attend the 2024 Great Lakes Region Climate Action Seminar. This is the third event in a series aimed to explore and expand landscape architecture’s role regarding climate change impacts occurring in urban and natural systems across the Great Lakes Region.⁠ ⁠ The theme for the 2024 Seminar is Design for Biodiversity reflecting ASLA’s recent call for landscape architecture to take a leading role in acknowledging and addressing the biodiversity crisis connected to the climate crisis. For more information and to submit a proposal, download the Call for Proposals here: nyuasla.org⁠ #landscapearchitecture #landarch #growingtogether #upstatelandscapes #landscapedesign #landscape #design #designer #resilienttogther #sustainability

Inhabiting Landscape - Floods, River Dynamics and Climate Change in Urban Public Space In Spain's architectural evolution, aldayjover architecture and landscape have been pioneers, integrating building design, landscape, and planning. Their approach values holistic understanding, uncovering site histories to create innovative solutions that positively impact everyday life. They act as informed facilitators, transforming knowledge into actionable designs. Essay by Iñaki Alday, excerpted from Cities & Rivers by aldayjover architecture & landscape, published by Actar Publishers. Check out more: https://lnkd.in/gtwscsjw #environment #urbanism #sustainabledevelopment #inhabitinglandscape

The University of Miami School of Architecture & Florida Atlantic University present the second lecture from the Spring 2024 Currents Lecture Series! Design in the Anthropocene: A coastal story and case for Salty Urbanism In an inevitable future of rising seas and climate change, a new framework for urban design and architecture that embeds ecosystem services and adjusts to increasingly salty landscapes will emerge as the only viable adaptation solution in South Florida. The porous limestone substrate poses particular challenges unlike any other coastal locations, where levees, walls, and pumps are not long-term solutions as water seeps up through the ground. South Florida’s unique geomorphology means it floods in five ways; 1) storm surge, 2) ground water table fluctuation (wet/dry seasons), 3) extreme rainfall events, 4) urban runoff, and 5) tidal flooding where all become more challenging and compounded due to rising sea levels. These dynamic and permanent flood states will radically alter the built environment more than anything else over the next 100 years. This lecture will present Jeffrey Erwin Huber, FAIA, ASLA, LEEDap design research, referred to colloquially as Salty Urbanism, with current practice case study examples.

Celebrating the green spaces in our urban places! 🏙️🌿 April marks National Landscape Architecture Month. And, as the cities around us continue to grow, so should its greenery. Swipe to learn more about how Polypipe’s Permavoid solution is helping more cities to facilitate green infrastructure – and why it matters ➡️ #Polypipe #Permavoid #NationalLandscapeArchitectureMonth

Architect Maggie Tsang focuses on climate adaptation, flood plain urbanism, community resilience, and the relationship between city and nature. The co-founder of Dept., a landscape architecture and urban design studio based in Houston and serving the Gulf Coast, she created “Prairie Plots,” a living installation next to the Turrell Skyspace, in 2022. Comprising more than 1,300 hardy plants and seeds known to thrive in the often harsh Houston climate, “Prairie Plots” serves as an example of how institutions can reimagine their footprint, letting changing climates guide the way humans interface with design. Read more about how Rice Architecture researchers are building the future. https://bit.ly/3UmMgR3

Check out this insightful conversation with Gabriel Díaz Montemayor, associate professor of landscape architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design.

Coastal resilience in landscape architecture is essential for building sustainable communities and involves strategic planning and design to lessen the impacts of coastal erosion and flooding. It’s about designing landscapes that can withstand and adapt to the changing coastal environment. Through responsible, environmentally driven design we can create resilient ecosystems that protect both communities and biodiversity. #Design #LandscapeArchitects #LandscapeArchitecture #OutdoorLiving #NativePlantLife #NaturalBeauty #EnvironmentalDesign #EcologicalDesign #SustainableDesign

Personal sunset at Leibniz Universität Hannover. This month I completed my Master's degree in Landscape Architecture. The past three years awakened in me an enthusiasm and passion for this beautiful profession and I am happy, excited and humbled to dedicate my life to it. Thoughts and statement: The program taught me to find a personality for this profession, showed me different ways to understand things independently and scientifically. Now I want to go on journeys, to understand places and their subjects as stories to retell and continue them. The profession is called landscape architecture, but I will give my best to manifest the approach of a phenomenological agent. Key aspects for me are to design biophilic, liveable and pro-social spaces for all living things. In the present age with humankind as a geological force, I describe these spaces as anthroposcences in which we reflect ourselves, our environment and our actions.

Modern Landscape Architecture: The 20th century witnessed the emergence of landscape architecture as a distinct profession, blending elements of art, ecology, and urban planning. Influential figures like Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York City's Central Park, pioneered the concept of landscape architecture as a tool for social and environmental improvement. Today, landscape architects continue to shape the built environment, creating sustainable and functional landscapes that enhance quality of life.

Find out about the role of landscape architects in creating low-carbon landscapes, and the steps that can be taken to achieve net zero? In this webinar, using the research undertaken to advise the Landscape and Carbon Report, landscape architect and author Claire Thirlwall, CMLI BA(Hons) Dip. LA, will explore those questions. Landscape and Carbon is a vital new report on carbon reduction in the UK landscape sector by the Landscape Institute (LI) and British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI). The report is a call to action for the entire landscape sector, and wider industry, to work together and use its combined skill and expertise to reduce carbon in landscape schemes and works. Register now: https://buff.ly/4dBTKIS #landscapeandcarbon #carbonreduction #netzero #landscapearchitecture #landscapedesign