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Growth & Connection
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Being part of ASLA means having what it takes to build a stronger practice and a fuller career. In 2025, that meant sharper business tools, deeper professional development, and real moments of connection — from webinars that make the economic case for your work, to a conference that reminded thousands of members why this community matters. This is what membership delivers, in practice.
- Making the Economic Case for Landscape Architecture: Speaking the Language of Value
- The Annual Conference on Landscape Architecture: Beyond Boundaries in New Orleans
- Conference Sustainability: Cutting the Footprint
- ASLA Fund: Turning Gaps Into Growth
- Building the Digital Foundation: How Members Connect, Learn & Grow
- Accolades: People, Projects & Impact
- Investing in the Profession: Putting Member Resources to Work
Making the Economic Case for Landscape Architecture:
Speaking the Language of Value
How can landscape architects make a stronger economic case for their projects? A dynamic webinar series moderated by ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen, Hon. ASLA, provided some answers.
ASLA invited a climate risk and insurance expert from the Environmental Defense Fund, a resilience leader from the City of Boston, economic development research leaders from HR&A, and landscape architects at Gibbs Planning Group and LandDesign to share what market-based arguments are most effective.
More than 1,100 members registered for the free series, which is available on demand.
The series builds on ASLA’s briefs on the Economic Benefits of Nature-based Solutions and Landscape Architecture .
The Annual Conference on Landscape Architecture — New Orleans
Watch a recap of the entire confernece
Beyond Boundaries in New Orleans
New Orleans doesn't do resilience as metaphor — twenty years after Katrina, the city still shows its work, which made it the right stage for ASLA 2025: Beyond Boundaries.
Nearly 5,700 landscape architects and allied professionals gathered alongside 324 exhibiting companies (60 first-time exhibitors), backing a carbon offset commitment that raised $50,921 toward the profession's climate accountability.
The General Session brought the city's story to the stage: former Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who led New Orleans' post-Katrina recovery, challenged the room to claim a bigger, more public role in shaping equitable, climate-ready communities.
In that same session, ASLA launched Landscape Architecture 2040, its updated Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan targeting zero emissions and biodiversity gains by 2040.
The Legacy Project
The 2025 Legacy Project made that commitment tangible: green infrastructure along North Claiborne Avenue in Tremé, rebuilding stormwater capacity — and civic dignity — in a neighborhood split by a 1960s highway. From the keynote stage to a street in Tremé, this was a conference built on being there — and on leaving something behind.
Conference Sustainability: Cutting the Footprint
In 2022, ASLA made an ambitious commitment – to cut its conference greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2024. According to sustainability partner Honeycomb Strategies, ASLA achieved its goal at the 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans, which saw a 19.6 percent reduction in emissions compared to the 2022 conference. In the EXPO, 61 percent of exhibitors made a sustainability pledge, committing to lower-emission practices.
ASLA members also made a positive contribution to the climate, purchasing more than 3,300 tons of greenhouse gas offsets through our partner the National Indian Carbon Coalition. 100 percent of contributions went to the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians to support the conservation and restoration of their Tribal forests and build a new K-12 school campus. ASLA’s work with Tribal communities on offsets advances members’ climate justice goals.
100% of offset contributions supported the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, helping conserve and restore Tribal forests and support construction of a new K–12 school campus.
Attendees of the 2026 conference can make a positive climate contribution and support the Blackfeet Nation in Montana.
Building the Digital Foundation: How Members Connect, Learn & Grow
In 2025, ASLA made significant investments in the digital tools and platforms that connect members to information, learning, colleagues, and professional opportunities. New websites, stronger directories, and a rebuilt LA CES platform created a more modern foundation for member service while improving how people discover resources, manage continuing education, and engage with the profession.
A New Digital Home
ASLA launched new ASLA.org and LandscapeArchitectureMagazine.org websites, creating clearer pathways to advocacy, education, professional resources, news, and the stories that define landscape architecture. The new platforms also provide a stronger, more scalable foundation for continued improvements over time.
Stronger Ways to Connect
An improved FirmFinder, a new Product Directory, and a refreshed Member Directory make it easier to find firms, products, colleagues, and expertise across the profession.
Continuing Education, Rebuilt
ASLA launched a new Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES) platform, modernizing how providers and attendees manage continuing education.
Improved course submissions and attendance uploads make administration easier, while certificates can now be issued directly through LA CES. Attendees gain centralized access to their LA CES records and future certificates, making it easier to track professional development and document continuing education for licensure.
New step-by-step guides, checklists, and video tutorials support providers as they transition to the updated system, with additional improvements planned as the platform evolves.
Together, these investments created a stronger digital foundation for member service, professional learning, and connection across the landscape architecture community.
ASLA Fund: Turning Gaps Into Growth
ASLA Fund donors turned an unexpected funding gap into a lasting place for children to learn outdoors.
When federal funding for the Design Academy for Teachers was canceled mid-program, donors contributed more than $22,000 to help 24 educators complete their training.
After attending last year's Academy, one of our educators returned to her school and successfully secured a grant to install a brand-new playground — creating a lasting outdoor learning environment for her students.
Fund support also provided registration for more than 500 students to the ASLA 2025 Conference and introduced more than 700 K–12 students to landscape architecture.
The Fund’s inaugural Founders Club Reception in New Orleans brought supporters together to celebrate the relationships and shared commitment behind this growing impact.
Accolades: People, Projects & Impact
Celebrating excellence. Advancing the profession. Amplifying impact.
ASLA recognized the people, projects, and initiatives that elevate our profession and extend the power of landscape architecture. These honors reflect outstanding leadership and service, design excellence, innovation, and the measurable difference our community makes in people's lives.
People
ASLA's Fellows and Honors programs demonstrate the unrivaled expertise that defines our profession. By recognizing members whose leadership, service, and design excellence advance landscape architecture, these programs reflect deep peer respect and a shared commitment to high standards.
Fellows
ASLA elevated 50 members to the Council of Fellows in 2025, recognizing sustained contributions to the profession through works, leadership, knowledge, and service.
Honors
Highlighting some of the most noteworthy landscape architecture practitioners and firms nationwide. Selected by ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors represent the highest recognition ASLA bestows each year.
Projects
The Professional and Student Awards competition further spotlights standout work, elevates emerging talent, and propels the profession forward. Together, these recognitions show the power of a connected community: one that celebrates achievement, inspires leadership, and delivers meaningful impact through landscape architecture.
Professional Awards
The Professional Awards recognize exceptional built work, planning, research, and communications that demonstrate the breadth and impact of contemporary landscape architecture.
Student Awards
The Student Awards celebrate emerging talent and ambitious ideas from the next generation of landscape architects across design, planning, research, communications, and service.
ASLA
ASLA’s work also earned recognition beyond the profession. In 2025, national awards honored the Society’s leadership in climate action, STEM advocacy, and digital innovation, reflecting the reach of ASLA’s work on behalf of members and the profession.
Power of Associations
ASAE recognized two ASLA initiatives for advancing the profession through climate leadership, education, and advocacy: the Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan and Landscape Architecture Is STEM.
Kentico Site of the Year
ASLA.org was recognized for creating a unified, scalable digital experience that strengthens content delivery, improves navigation, and lays the groundwork for future AI-driven experiences.
Investing in the Profession: Putting Member Resources to Work
Member support fuels ASLA’s work across education, professional resources, advocacy, communications, and the programs that strengthen landscape architecture. In 2025, ASLA generated $14.4 million in revenue and directed the majority of its expenses toward services that support members and advance the profession.
Resources Put to Work
$14.4M
Annual Revenue
84%
of expenses supported member services, education, advocacy, and communications.
Practice information based on 13,344 records with this information.
A Profession Connected
15,741
ASLA Members
ASLA brings together practitioners, students, educators, and allied professionals across landscape architecture and related fields.