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ASLA Celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2020
Remembering Influential Landscape Architect Joseph Yamada
This year, two members from ASLA’s Diversity Summit community worked to shape activities and develop resources, which include a letter to the broader ASLA member community that has inspired ASLA’s 2020 celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.
We invite you to read What Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Means to ASLA and Us by Masako Ikegami, ASLA, SWA Group, and Gloria Lau, ASLA, Stantec.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Webinar Series
America's Chinatowns: Identity, Belonging, and the Future of Place
Ernie Wong, FASLA, Jenn Low, PLA, Yu-Chung Li, ASLA, and Jim Lee, ASLA led a four-part webinar series about the past, present, and future of Chinatowns and drew analogies to other neighborhoods like them that are subject to the ongoing forces of gentrification driving neighborhood change.
Special Features
Learn more about the remarkable story of 1982 ASLA Award winner, Shinji Nakagawa, FASLA, and his introduction to landscape architecture during the war years in The Cultural Landscape Foundation's feature stories series.
Take a virtual tour of the Hmong Cultural Plaza, an open-air pavilion and stone garden with the Phalen Regional Park China Garden. The Hmong Cultural Plaza is an important element in the China Garden because Minnesota Hmongs claim Changsha as their ancestral home, and a large Hmong community live in the Phalen Park area.
Diversity Summit participant, Cheeneng Yang, ASLA shares more about Hmong culture with Celebrating Hmong People and Culture.
ASLA Interviews with Asian American and Asian Landscape Architects
Jie Hu, FASLA
Mikyoung Kim, FASLA
Joyce Lee, FAIA, LEED Fellow
Hitesh Mehta, FASLA
Kotchakorn Voraakhom, International ASLA
Kongjian Yu, FASLA
Asian American Landscape Architecture Pioneers
Asa Hanamoto, FASLA
Masao Kinoshita, FASLA
Robert Murase, FASLA
Kenichi Nakano, FASLA
Satoru Nishita, FASLA
Hideo Sasaki, FASLA
Takeo Uesugi, FASLA