I have been honored and humbled by the trust you have bestowed upon me to lead our executive committee for the 2018 year. The confidence you have put in me, I do not take lightly. I wish to start by thanking each of you and expressing gratitude for allowing me to be part of such an inspiring group of landscape architects the past four years I have served on the executive committee. I hope to represent all of you and the profession we love dearly with professionalism, excitement, and grace.

 

October 18th-23rd I joined our President David Flanagan, President-Elect Deena Bell-Llewellyn, Fellow-Elects Emily O’Mahoney and Kona Gray and many other Florida Chapter members in Los Angels for the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo. The extended weekend full of Board of Trustees Meetings, classes, visiting vendors in the exhibitor hall and a little bit of sight seeing the was capped off watching our 2 very deserving members (Emily and Kona) be elevated to Fellows at the annual Investiture Dinner.

 

All ASLA Members with ten or more continuous years of Full Membership are eligible for Fellowship in the Society. The Florida Chapter Fellows Committee wants to know if you believe you are electable to the ASLA Council of Fellows.

 

The Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation honored the Smokey Hollow Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS FL-09) with the Historic Landscape Award of Excellence. The HALS documentation of the Smokey Hollow community by Florida Landscape Architects David Driapsa FASLA, Jeff Caster FASLA, and William Lutrick ASLA Emeritus, forces us to rethink historical narratives of government's exercise of eminent domain in the mid-twentieth century on established African American neighborhoods.

 

During the summers of 2016 and 2017, preservation professionals took up residence on Mallard Island in northern Minnesota to document its cultural landscape. David Driapsa, FASLA, brought these groups together after first visiting the island in 2010, and subsequently preparing a Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS MN-06) of the island and submitting it to the Library of Congress.

 

When: Thursday, November 9th / 5:00 - 7:00 Where: Cask Social Kitchen / 208 South Howard Avenue Tampa FL 33606 Presentation by:Tammy Overgaard of Stabil Concrete Sponsored by: Kompan

 

Where: University of Florida - Reitz Union, Room 3315 When: Thursday, November 9th / 6:30 - 8:00pm Hosted by the School of Landscape Architecture and Planning

 

On Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, Florida ASLA - Orlando Section will team with Urban Sketchers as sketchers will circle the world in one of the biggest sketchwalks ever; a 24 hours global Sketchwalk!

 

The 2017 golf registration page is now LIVE. Please come out to enjoy another wonderful day at the AIA & FLASLA Annual Golf Tournament!

 

Wednesday, December 6th / 11am - 5pm The Urban Forestry Workshop aims to inform citizens and professional about the urban forest in our community. This workshop will offer information on Gainesville's Urban Forest, mature trees, tree canopy, diversity of trees and tree diseases especially in palms.

 

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