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May 26th – AzASLA Is proud to announce Southern Section Chair Sandy Bolduc took a lead role in desiging a Tucson Memorial that received news coverage, click the link below for the news coverage. Great work Sandy!

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May 19th – ASLA National Leaders Express #410

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April 24th – Meet Me Downtown Landscape Architecture Tour – Photos

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April 24th – ASLA National Leaders Express #409

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April 19th – ASLA National Leaders Express #408

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April 5th – ASLA National Leaders Express #407

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March 22nd – ASLA National Leaders Express #406

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March 13th – ASLA National Leaders Express #405

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February 23rd – ASLA National Leaders Express #404

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February 9th – ASLA National Leaders Express #403

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January 26th – ASLA National Leaders Express #402

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January 11th – ASLA National Leaders Express #401

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December 22nd – ASLA National Leaders Express #400

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December 15th – The Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship opportunity at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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December 8th – ASLA National Leaders Express #399

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December 1st – AIA’s ‘This Is Phoenix’ Design Competition – 2nd Place Awarded to ASLA Member Tiffany Halperin of The Urban Culture Design Project

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November 15th – ASLA National Leaders Express #398

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November 17th – RFP City of Mesa – Main Street Prototyping Festival

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November 15th – ASLA National Leaders Express #397

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October 28th – ASLA National Leaders Express #396

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October 28th – ASLA National Leaders Express #395

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October 28th – ASLA National Leaders Express #394

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September 19th – ASLA National Leaders Express #393

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September 19th – ASLA National Leaders Express #392

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July 13th – Landscape Architecture Foundation Founders’ Award 2016

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July 11th – ASLA National Leaders Express

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June 17th – Arizona Forward 2016 Environmental Excellence Awards

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May 18th – ASLA National Leaders Express

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May 12th – 30×30 Challenge!

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March 17th – 2016 NOLA Grant!

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March 8th – SO Regionals in Tucson!

It was a great day yesterday at SO Regionals in Tucson! 7 MLA students volunteered to help the kids in several events including Invasive Species, Road Scholar, Gliders and Disease Detectives. This is an important part of AzASLA’s “Career Discovery” activities. The middles schoolers who participated in Science Olympiad come from all over the state and are the best and the brightest of their schools. It’s only a few years before they will be making decisions on their college majors and we hope to plant the seed in their minds to consider landscape architecture!

Thanks to Daniel, Gabriel, Katie, Jon, Elliot, Matthew, and Britain for your time and enthusiasm yesterday!

March 1st – Science Olympiad Pictures

February 1st – Sunset Review Update

December 9th – State Committee Recommends Continuance of BOTR

Arizona Chapter of the ASLA attend State Commerce and Workforce Development and House Commerce Committee of Reference for the Sunset Review of the Arizona Board of Technical Registration, Wednesday, December 9, 2015. The Joint Committee unanimously recommended the continuance of BoTR for eight years.

Pictured left to right: Jim Coffman, RLA; Robert Shuler, Lobbyist for AzASLA; Rick Campbell, and Galen Drake, RLA. Not pictured: Craig Coronato, FASLA

October 18th – City of Scottsdale – Civic Center Mall Master Plan Public Meeting #1: Input Gathering

Join the City of Scottsdale for their first public meeting on Wednesday, October 28th at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Two sessions will be held, one from 8-10 am and the second from 6‐8 pm. The same material will be presented at each session, beginning with a presentation from the project team followed by opportunities for you to tell us what is important to you. Click here for more information

October 19th – CALL TO ARTIST FOR SOUTH MOUNTAIN LOOP 202 PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE PUBLIC ART PROJECT

September 18th – Dennis Flynn, Executive Director, Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun is giving away a free home to a disabled Veteran (it was a Super Bowl event but there have been numerous road blocks) over hear 12th Street & Hatcher. The City is asking for a landscape plan for the front of the house before the home can be placed on the site with a crane….it is a modular home that was the show piece for Champions Homes at the 2014 National Convention in Las Vegas…..the City would like it to be low maintenance.

If you are interested in helping out this non-profit please connect with Dennis at the contact information below. Click here for the layout

Dennis Flynn
Executive Director, Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun
2123 S. Priest, Ste 213 Tempe, AZ 85282
480.774.0237
480.774.0236 fax
602.615.5285 cell
www.rebuildingtogetherphx.org

September 18th – ASLA is going to be making a big push for PARK(ing) Day (9/18). To encourage participation, ASLA is holding a social media contest. It’s pretty simple: ASLA is asking people to share pictures of their PARK(ing) Day parklets on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, [insert social media platform that uses hashtags here], etc. with the hashtag #ASLAPD. In addition to sharing these pictures, we’re going to choose one professional and one student parklet we see on social media with the hashtag and put them in the (probably based on the October deadline) November issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Below you’ll find the basic rules of the contest/how to participate. You can also find the information (on Parking Day, including ASLA insurance) on the…PARK(ing) Day Web Page: http://asla.org/contentdetail.aspx?id=46872

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September 8th – On September 8th the TCC Historic District (the Eckbo landscape) was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It met the criterion of ‘exceptional significance’, which means that it was determined eligible despite the fact that it is not yet fifty years old. In addition it was listed at the National Level of Significance, which confirms its important position in the history of American landscape architecture. There are perhaps only a half dozen properties in the US that hold this degree of distinction.

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June 23rd – The AZASLA Gala Board Exhibit has found itself at the City of Mesa!

Pictured from left to right City of Mesa’s Zac Koceja, RLA, Donna DiFrancesco, Conservation Coordinator and Smithgroup|JJR’s Valerie Ahyong, ASLA

June 11th – Pamela Graf, a local Landscape Architect, passed away on Thursday, June 4th at the age of 61. During her professional career in Scottsdale, Pam “left her footprints,” figuratively and literally, on many projects such as: Gainey Ranch, Desert Highlands, Desert Mountain, Lost Canyon, DC Ranch and on numerous residences throughout the Valley and in other states. She will be missed, however, she will be remembered and appreciated by residents of these communities who, every day, are the beneficiaries of her talent and legacy.