Landscape Architecture In the News
A sampling of recent press coverage of landscape architecture. Keyword terms are noted by ">>>" and "<<<" marks.

Demand for Landscape Architecture Services Remains High
PR Newswire
Date: 02/11/08

…[h]ousing market, according to a survey by the >>>American Society of Landscape Architects<<< (ASLA). More than six in ten firms reported steady or increased work, and nearly four in ten firms planned to hire in the upcoming quarter. The survey asked quarterly benchmarks on key statistics including billable hours, inquiries, and hiring plans, with 319 firms responding. As with third quarter of 2007, the fourth quarter saw the majority of firms staying busy despite larger housing market troubles.

North San Diego County Community News Briefs                   
North County Times (CA)
Date: 02/12/08

Award-winning, >>>landscape architect<<< Kay Stewart will demonstrate how regional native plants can bring spirit and vitality to low-water gardens; the second class will feature a lecture on sustainable landscaping from Nan Sterman, author of "California Gardener's Guide Volume II"; and Patrick Anderson, owner of a stunning succulent garden in Fallbrook, will discuss designing with succulents for the last class. Complete the classes with a stroll through the gardens March 15 with master designer Bill Teague and listen as he highlights plants discussed in the classes. Cost is $80 for members, $100 nonmembers.

Trails Group Thanks Council for Support                                
The Lebanon Reporter
Date: 02/12/08

Students of Prof. Bernie Dahl, a >>>landscape architect<<< at Purdue University, helped design the trail as a semester project. The trail group is also working with the Boone County Area Plan Commission, hoping to have the trail included in a comprehensive land use plan now being drafted. Stroup said the FBCT is in the planning and design phase of the Lebanon-to-Colfax trail segment. It hopes to raise enough money to buy the land to complete that phase. The group started in 2004. Councilman Dick Robertson urged the council to continue supporting the trail project.

Landscape firm returns to update Elizabeth Gardens
WBT: News Talk Radio
Date: 02/12/08

This is how the >>>landscape architect<<< from New York designed an Elizabethan garden on the north end of a little island called Roanoke more than half a century ago. And this is how the man who learned from him plans to continue that vision in the years ahead. Hermann Schulz first visited The Elizabethan Gardens in the mid-1960s to help administer Webel's design. The Garden Club of North Carolina had adopted the project in 1951 as a living memorial to the English who tried to colonize the New World 20 years before Jamestown.

State ends funding for plants along Dallas' Central Expressway
Dallas Morning News
Date: 02/12/08

TxDOT district >>>landscape architect<<< Patrick Haigh said the grasses probably wouldn't stand much of a chance of surviving given the minimal maintenance they would receive. "I am concerned that the native grasses probably will not work, but I don't want to completely eliminate that," he said. TxDOT plans to test native grasses like red yucca in a small area at Central and Churchill Way over the spring and summer. Some council members also pressed Mr. Hale on why TxDOT cleared the medians up to Mockingbird Lane but stopped as they approached the Park Cities.

Olmsted's Riverside                                                                                        
Chicago Tribune
Date: 02/11/08

On this date, >>>landscape architect<<< Frederick Law Olmsted headed west from Chicago, where he had arrived by train from New York, to a spot about 10 miles from the city. His mission was to inspect 1,600 acres that a group of Eastern businessmen had recently purchased. Olmsted took a carriage to the site, which lay along the Des Plaines River and was graced with thick groves of oak and hickory trees. "I was ill when I reached Chicago but to keep my engagement, drove 20 miles over open prairie, (in) bleak & raw wind, & walked a good deal," Olmsted wrote his wife, Mary.

Friday Art Auction to Benefit Winthrop Award
The Herald
Date: 02/11/08

Keith Davitt, author and award-winning >>>landscape architect<<<, will discuss techniques to achieve garden designs for outdoor living. After the garden design discussion, there will be three different program sessions. Each session will include three different topics from which participants can choose. They are Session 1, antique roses, edible landscaping and small flowering trees; Session 2, water gardening, sustainable gardening and diagnosing plant disorders; and Session 3, yard art, waterwise gardening and propagation techniques. Cost is $40 and includes a buffet lunch and goody bags.
 
Tree Country tips: Have a plan, think shade, go big, ask the pros      
OregonLive.com
Date: 02/11/08

But we live in cities," says James Urban, a >>>landscape architect<<< and tree expert. The soil in cities has been changed by urbanization. "We need to find plants that grow in these difficult urban conditions," he says from his office in Annapolis, Md. Urban is big on shade trees because of their environmental benefits. For example, they can reduce energy demands by cooling your home. "I encourage people to try to plant the largest tree the site, or their psyche, can handle," he says. GETTING STARTED Before you rush out and buy a tree, come up with a well-thought-out plan, advises David Lewis, a >>>landscape architect<<< in Portland.

A Green Lens for Affordable Housing
Planetizen
Date: 02/07/08

The Tenderloin is also home to a 2007 >>>ASLA<<< Honor Award winner in the general design category. Since 2005, this structure, designed by architects David Baker and Partners, provides affordable housing to low-income residents, many of whom suffer from chronic homelessness and other problems." "'The program [at Curran House] is not unusual,' building manager Natalie Richie explains. We work within the limits and restrictions of several subsidized housing programs. It is the location, the [physical] structure, and the diverse population that are unusual.

Haw River Takes a Look at Growth Plans
Isaac Groves Times-News
Date: 02/12/08

Ten senior >>>landscape architecture<<< students put the ideas they got at a town hall-style brainstorming session last fall into a plan for downtown with parks, new houses and stores. This is another step on the way to getting the little town's huge, closed, mills converted into homes and businesses, and reviving downtown. Winston-Salem architect Jeff Harbinson represents a group of investors close to buying the Holt and Cora mills, known together as the Tabardrey mills, and, eventually, converting them to high-end apartments, condominiums, office space and stores.

CITYSCAPE ROUNDUP: Street ends proposals to be on view
Coastline Pilot
Date: 02/11/08

…[C]lass in Cal Poly Pomona’s department of >>>landscape architecture<<< to work on a project titled Laguna Beach Street Ends. The students are addressing the street ends of Brooks, Cress and Mountain streets. The project aims to inspire new ideas for the three street ends as open space areas that can be converted into works of urban art, under the oversight of the Beautification Council and SWA >>>Landscape Architecture<<<. During the 10-week project, students worked in small groups to address the street ends as a series of public spaces that connect environment, city, pedestrian and beach.

Roadwork Has City at Crossroads
Star Tribune
Date: 02/11/08