Registration is now open for our 4th Annual Leaf & Limb Community Appreciation Event, where we'll celebrate our favorite people: YOU!  

Join us on Saturday, December 14th, for an action-packed event filled with guided tours, hands-on classes about pruning and soil, free Project Pando trees, and plenty of good food.

To attend, advance registration is required. Tickets are limited and first come, first served. Please sign up at the link below:

All are welcome!

Lecture starts at 6PM ET in the Burns Auditorium. There is also a Zoom option if unable to attend in-person.

Please join the College of Design for the fall 2024 architecture lecture series and the fall 2024 landscape architecture lecture series. 

Gabriela Carrillo started her eponymous Studio in 2019, as a collaborative and interdisciplinary space for architectural work. She is a co-founder of the c733 collective, dedicated to developing public projects in Mexico. With over twenty years of experience, she has received numerous accolades, including the Emerging Voices Award in 2014, the Federico Mariscal Chair, the highest recognition for professional practice by the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM, and the Médaille d'OR from the French Academy of Architecture. She was named "Architect of the Year" by Architectural Review in London in 2017 and by Architectural Digest Mexico in 2020. Gabriela has also been a member of the National System of Art Creators and since 2021, an academic member of the Academy of Architecture of Mexico, Mexico City chapter.

Join us for Park(ing) Day on Friday, September 20th in Charlotte. Park(ing) Day spaces are locared on Camden Road between West Boulevard and W. Kingston Avenue.

There will be a post Park(ing) Day gathering hosted by Vestre Furniture at Common Market South End at 4:30 PM.

Please join us for the Hoffman Nursery Tour 9/14/24 from 10am-12pm. CEU Approved for 2 hrs through NCBOLA

Meeting point = Riverwalk Trail Entrance, Hillsborough NC

Meeting Time - 10 am – 12 with drinks and lunch from 12-1 after the walk at Wooden Nickel Pub.

Bring a sketchbook and good walking shoes

We are partnering with AIA, NOMA, and Diversify Architecture for this event.  

Link: 2024 Summer Social – Durham Bulls Game

 Saturday, June 29th

6:35pm Game Starts

Durham Bulls Athletic Park

Join NCASLA members for Happy Hour following the Spring 2024 Lecture Series being held at Burns Auditorium. Members will be meeting up at Player’s Retreat starting at 5:30PM. Great way to network with fellow members.

Join NCASLA members for Happy Hour following the Spring 2024 Lecture Series being held at Burns Auditorium. Members will be meeting up at Player’s Retreat starting at 5:30PM. Great way to network with fellow members.

Charlotte Section Only Event, Limited to First 20! LA CES APPROVED 3 HRS

LA CES APPROVED 3 HRS

Join NCASLA members for Happy Hour following the Spring 2024 Lecture Series being held at Burns Auditorium. Members will be meeting up at Player’s Retreat starting at 5:30PM. Great way to network with fellow members.

Join us for an Alumni and Friends Reception in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 28 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm (Central Daylight Time). The reception will take place in the Skyway of the Historic Hotel Ivy. 

Join us for a chance to meet María Bellalta, incoming Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. 

College of Design Dean Mark Hoversten will share remarks about our special 75th anniversary year. This reception provides a fantastic opportunity to network, exchange ideas and reengage with the college.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Leaf Lookin’ at Horton Grove Nature Preserve Sunday, Oct. 22nd, 2- 4 pm.

This event is free to attend and open to all, within and beyond the NC State community.  It will be particularly relevant to all who are invested in urban futures in professional and activist roles, such as developers, architects, community organizers, farmers and agriculture industry professionals, energy sector and water resource management professionals, and policy makers. Pre-registration is required to obtain an accurate headcount for catering purposes. Register for this event here.

Please join the Doctor of Design program and the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning for a co-sponsored lecture featuring Anya Domlesky from the SWA Group.

Anya Domlesky, ASLA, PLA, is an urban designer and landscape architect, currently the Director of Research at SWA Group.  She runs XL Lab, the firm’s innovation lab undertaking practice-based research. She holds an MLA from the Harvard GSD and an M.Arch II from McGill University.

Not All Green is Gold: Appearance and Performance in Scaling Up Climate Action

Landscape architects are not doing enough on climate action.  Even as architects have been working for years to reduce the embodied carbon of steel and concrete, incorporating automated Life Cycle Assessment into BIM models to calculate impact, accounting for operational carbon through LEED, and making pledges for mitigation and meeting targets, our small discipline has not significantly altered our practices.  Although a small number of landscape projects go through SITES certification every year, the majority receive little or no scrutiny on their carbon impact, sequestration, or climate adaptation performance—from clients, the public, or the press.  Inadvertently, our work has been greenwashed by others; it looks like sustainability.  This historical “pass” stems in part from our projects’ appearance of naturalness, an artifice we train long to wield.

It is time now to immediately expand how we imagine the scope of our work.  New research is showing the carbon impacts of landscape projects can be massive.  We must begin to hold ourselves to account rather than continue to be complacent in our perception as providers of an uncontested “green” good.  In the last 10 years, the field has made significant strides in designing for flood adaptation, but we quickly need to incorporate adaptations to heat, drought, fire, and bolster the ability of people, animals, and plants to absorb and recover from shocks.  To scale up our climate action takes reskilling, new tools, practice-based research on emerging dynamics, a new emphasis on working both upstream of the design brief and post-construction, and an active, rather than passive, stance in relation to clients.  We have been constructing novel ecosystems to meet aesthetic and social aims for decades.  The time has come for these sites to do more work.

Free, via Zoom and will occur tomorrow Wednesday October 18th between 12-1pm. Please use the link below to register for the event.  

DDes/LAEP Lecture: Anya Domlesky - NC State University Calendar (ncsu.edu)

NCASLA Has Partnered with the North Carolina Main Street and Rural Planning Center and their Creating Outdoor Recreation Economies (CORE) and Rural Community Capacity (RC2) programs to develop the first of a new series of volunteer efforts to help small North Carolina towns with formulating a vision, a plan, and implementation strategies for a downtown space in need of minds like YOURS.

NCASLA volunteers will be joining the Town of Roseboro on October 10th to gather design ideas, develop a program, and determine steps for the implementation of a downtown civic space adjacent to their historic main street. We need your help to bring them a vision and design via a one-day workshop and early evening presentation of its results to the Town Council that evening. This is an opportunity for you to gain experience in Urban Planning + Design and to help give back to the greater NC and NCASLA community all without having to market your way to winning the project. We need your ideas and your expertise to help a town with limited resources to attain a workable solution for a critical downtown space that can help propel the Town of Roseboro into a prosperous future. They gain from our expertise, and we gain from the experience. It’s a classic “Win-Win” for all involved.

The plan is to meet in downtown Roseboro in the morning on Tuesday, October 10th, and will follow the general agenda below:
               

• 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Meet on Main Street for a project info download and a Site Visit.

• 11:00 am – 12:00 pm – Develop a list of site Opportunities + Constraints

• 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Determine preferred Site Program over lunch

• 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Site Design Charette to develop a preferred site layout

• 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Develop and refine the Preferred Site Plan + Implementation Strategy

• 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm– Volunteer team to create a PowerPoint Presentation for Town Council over dinner

• 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Presentation of Workshop Results to Town Council

This one-day commitment will give you fantastic experience in urban design for a rural community, exposure to the ideas and planning + design thoughts of others within the profession, and will be rewarding in its value to a community that can absolutely use our help in progressing their vision for the future of their downtown.

If you have an interest in volunteering and participating in part or in full for the workshop, please contact Dan Lambert at lambert@mcadamsco.com with your interest and availability.

Join us for a celebration of women in design at Rosie’s Wine Garden.