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World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM) is in April!!! Events and details inside!
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As you may be aware, April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM).
ASLA National is promoting the "Designed by a Landscape Architect" campaign for WLAM. For this activity during April, we are asking ASLA chapters and IFLA organizations to join in the celebration whereby people around the world will use the attached cards to take pictures of iconic or unique landscapes with the hashtag #WLAM2015 and sharing them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Then, please go to asla.org/wlam to submit the picture so ASLA can catalog everything.
Beginning this year, as a part of World Landscape Architecture Month, National ASLA would like to begin a collaborative relationship between ASLA’s chapters and IFLA member organizations around the globe for April and beyond. National has designated an international "sister" organization of landscape architects for each state chapter to reach out and coordinate WLAM activities with. Florida Chapter’s sister organization is in Portugal (Associação Portuguesa dos Arquitetos Paisagistas (APAP)). Margarida Cancela d'Abreu (margarida.abreu@apap.pt) is our contact there.
Richard Alomar is heading a month long event for World Landscape Architecture Month called "Sketch Out/Loud." We’re collaborating with Urban Sketchers in events that promote on location sketching and landscape architecture. The details for Sketch Out/Loud will be announced later this month, but we wanted to let the folks in Miami and South Florida know that there are a series of sketching workshops (March 27-29) taking place that some LA’s may be interested in. For more information: CLICK HERE.
On April 20-21, FLASLA will join the National Park Service and the non-profit group Groundworks Jacksonville to conduct a public charrette to study a rails to trails project known as the ‘S’ Line near Jacksonville. For anyone that can afford to join one or both days, this will be a tremendous community service opportunity and a great way to demonstrate what Landscape Architects do. For anyone interested in participating, please contact Doug Smith (dsmith@edsaplan.com) or Kevin White (kwhite@flaggdesignstudio.com) who is the Jacksonville Section Chair.