MAY

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JUNE

The Cultural Landscape Foundation - Garden Dialogues: Chicago
Saturday June 9, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. & Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 3:30 p.m.

Get exclusive access to private gardens in the Chicago area and hear directly from the landscape architects and their patrons about the design process.

How do patrons and designers work together? What makes for a great, enduring collaboration? Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to visit some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice. 

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The series will feature a variety of speakers exploring topics pertaining to the practice of landscape architecture.  Its goal is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas that support and enrich practitioners’ experience.

UPCOMING SEMINARS:

“Trees as a Legacy in Design & Development.” - featuring keynote speaker, Peter Walker, FASLA, who will explore trees in design  

Date:    Thursday, June 28, 2012
Time:    9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Chicago Botanic Garden

A symposium presented by Bartlett Tree Experts and the Chicago Botanic Garden.  Special discounted admission of $40 to the talk and symposium for ILASLA members. Quantities limited.  Call 847-835-8261 to register. Use Coupon Code “Olmsted” and provide your ILASLA member number.

Learn more about the event at chicagobotanic.org/treesindesign

PREVIOUS SEMINARS:

April 12, 2012
The Bartlett Seminars presents Barbara Geiger author of Low-Key Genius:
The Life and Work of Landscape-Gardener O.C. Simonds

We celebrated Landscape Architecture Month and learned how Chicago landscape-gardener—and early Cliff Dwellers member—O.C. Simonds (1855-1931) became a seminal figure in the naturalistic landscape movement as a designer, author, and teacher.

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JULY

ILASLA Summer Mixer

Date:    Thursday, July 12, 2012
Time:   4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Where: Unilock Chicago, 301 E. Sullivan Road, Aurora, IL

SAVE THE DATE! Registration will open mid-May, 2012.

It's Summer Carnival Time!! Unilock will once again be hosting our 6th Annual Summer Mixer.  Join us for an evening of great food, educational opportunities, and networking!

The Architect's Newspaper is proud to be affiliated with ILASLA and is offering any of its members a free subscription to our newspaper! Just click this link to visit the MidWest subscriptions page at http://archpaper.com/cc_trans/MW_subscribe.asp and select the "free" subscription type. Kindly enter code "ASLA IL" in the license number section of the subscription form page to begin receiving A'N!

The Architect's Newspaper serves up news and inside reports to a niche community of architects, designers, engineers, landscape architects, lighting designers, interior designers, academics, developers, contractors, and other parties interested in the built urban environment. The Architect’s Newspaper delivers quality news and cultural reporting through print, web, blog, newsletter, or twitter—all the news you want, in all the ways you want to get it.

Registration is now open for the 2012 ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO, September 28-October 1, in Phoenix. Click here to explore all the meeting has to offer and view the video for a test drive.

• Earn up to 21 professional development hours through more than 135 extraordinary education sessions, field sessions, workshops, and general sessions. ASLA has recruited over 300 experts from the United States and abroad to serve on our faculty.
• The ASLA EXPO—the largest product display in the industry—will feature more than 450 exhibitors and a dozen Learning Labs to explore the most innovative products and services available to our profession.
• Current and future leaders in landscape architecture will be recognized with honors and awards.
• Share fellowship with colleagues from across the country and around the world at special events throughout the weekend.
• Work with the ACE Mentor Program to upgrade the horticulture program greenhouse and build a courtyard garden at Metro Tech High School.

This theme of this year is Beyond Boundaries: Design, Leadership, and Community. In this rapidly changing world, look beyond the normal way of seeing things and doing business. Pressing beyond customary boundaries will help us grow into new practice areas, develop new tools, and meet new challenges. Through our designs, we change our physical world to make it function better and to be more valuable, more sustainable, more useful, and more beautiful. Through our leadership, we forge a network of relationships with citizens, civic leaders, and allied professionals to foster collaboration and to share ideas. Our communities are strengthened when we improve our built environment and preserve and protect our natural environment.

Water, Food and the New Green Economy: Working Toward a Sustainable Lake County
Thursday, May 17, 2012 — 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Join like-minded business owners, non-profit leaders and municipal and county representatives in sharing success stories and action spurring initiatives that work towards building a sustainable community and a green economy for all.  This year’s conference has something for everyone.

Register at the College of Lake County. In addition to the Full Day Experience that the County Green offers, there will be two FREE afternoon sessions provided, the Food Forum and the Water Forum. Both forums are excellent options for Lake County municipal leaders, providing viable resources for those who need to operate on a time conscious schedule. The Food Forum provides an inside look at sustainable local foods, while the Water Forum provides an overview of the most pressing water issues in Lake County.

ILASLA Source is an online directory for our industry.  It allows our website users to search either alphabetically or by busniess category, for instance, you can search for companies by "Design/Build", "Trade Supplier", "Multi-Disciplinary", etc.  To be listed in Source, please contact our Webmaster and supply your company's name, contact information, logo, and short summary.  The listing fee is $65 per year, payable by check or credit card.  

ILASLA continues to receive many inquiries about updating the information of our members.  Our membership rosters are generated by National ASLA.  If you need to update your information, whether it is your email address, place of employment, telephone number, etc., you will need to contact National ASLA.  Once all your information is updated at National ASLA, it will also be updated with ILASLA.  Thank you for your understanding.

ASLA has launched a new section of ASLA.org. Books published over the years by Fellows, Full, Associate, Affiliate, Student, and Corporate Members are now available at discounted prices through our ASLA Amazon.com store for both members and the public.

Books are organized into seven categories:

Landscape Architecture
Sustainability
Gardens and Gardening
Trees, Plants, and Flowers
Biographies
Urban Planning & Design
Drawing & Design

If you are a member of ASLA and an author and we’ve missed your book, please let us know as soon as possible. Your book must still be in print, fit into one of these categories, and be available via Amazon.

To be included, please mail one review copy of your book to:

Brooke Hinrichs
ASLA Library
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
636 Eye Street, NW,
Washington, D.C.
20001

Please contact Brooke at 202-216-2354 or bhinrichs@asla.org with any additional questions.

Buying a book through ASLA.org benefits ASLA’s library and educational programs. Please let your colleagues know and buy now to support ASLA.
  

Please join Friends of the Parks on May 11th to celebrate Chicago parks and salute our 2012 Honoree:

Award-Winning Landscape Architect
Ernest C. Wong
Principal and Founder of Site Design Group, Ltd.

Proceeds benefit Friends of the Parks' citywide advocacy work.

Tables of ten - $3,000 and $5,000

Individual tickets - $225 and up

SPECIAL NOTE! When purchasing tickets, please mention that you are an ILASLA member
and heard about the event through the Chapter.  Thank you! 

Click here for more information or contact Nancy Minster Swabb, Events Director, by phone at (312) 857-2757, extension 11 or by email at nancymswabb@hotmail.com.

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, June 29, 2012 for this year's Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition.

One grand prize winner will receive $1,000 cash + $1,000 credit towards taking the L.A.R.E. OR purchasing/renewing a CLARB Council Record!  It only costs $25 to enter and students are encouraged to submit school projects. 

• Download and share the competition rules.
   
• Download and share the promotional flyer.

This competition, open to any student or team of students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate Landscape Architectural Degree Program, recognizes outstanding student examples of landscape architectural work that clearly demonstrate (in words and images that can be easily understood by the public, regulators, landscape architects and other design professionals) how the practice of landscape architecture and licensing affects quality of life.   

CLARB's not-for-profit charitable foundation, the Landscape Architectural Registration Boards Foundation (LARBF), created this annual competition in honor of Wayne Grace, a licensed professional who was dedicated to improving the quality of life in his hometown of Macon, Georgia through the practice of landscape architecture and worked to advance the cause of licensure throughout the United States.

If you have questions or need additional information about the competition, please contact Missy Sutton, CLARB Communications Coordinator, via phone (571-432-0332 ext. 113) or email.  CLARB's office hours are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time.  

The 25th Annual Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo (HFSE) will take place October 2-3, 2012 in Chicago, at the Navy Pier. This is your opportunity to meet face to face with healthcare decision makers and professionals who PLAN, DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, and MANAGE healthcare facilities. These professionals are working together to advance the healthcare built environment.

For more information please contact:

Nancy Jo Hauck
nj@jdevents.com
Tel: (203) 416-1770

October 17-20, 2012

Join CitiesAlive 'where it all started' at the Congress Plaza in Chicago, Illinois, for the 10th anniversary of North America's only conference dedicated to the green roof and wall industry.

Enjoy the unbeatable opportunity to learn from a wide variety of experts the latest in research, policy, design, and product development for gree roofs, walls and other forms of green infrastructure.

Expand your business opportunities, develop new policy approaches, discover new design techniques and tools, share and develop new research opportunities and have fun! 

VOLUNTEER for the CitiesAlive 2012 Local Host Committee
Help is needed for American's only conference dedicated to the green roof and wall industry! 

CitiesAlive 2012 is looking for several volunteers to help with teh following commitee's in planning the 2012 event in Chicago:

Local Host Reception Committee
Objectives:  Primary responsibility to fundraise, organize, plan and execute the Local Host Committee reception showcasing Chicago food, arts and culture on the evening of October 18th

Marketing and Promotions Committe
Objectives:  Primary responsibility to co-ordinate local/regional messaging, identify local association partners, media events, distribute print materials, social networking etc.

Legacy Committee
Objectives:  To develop and implement a project that will leave a lasting legacy of the event for the citizens of Chicago.

Academic Committee
Objectives:  To engage the academic community in Chicago and students in the conference.

Tours/Program Committee
Objectives:  Primary responsibility for providing input to the program which includes tour development and administration, local speakers and content and any special program related events.

If you are interested in volunteering or for more information, please contact Juli Ordower.  CLICK HERE for the CitiesAlive 2012 Local Host Committee Terms of Reference.