New and Events Archive

Design Week 2008 will be held at MSU January 14th-18th. All professionals are welcome and potential CEU's are available. This design week is organized to provide students with an understanding of implications of scale changes following the mantra of “Think globally, act locally.” More specifically, implications of site design and planning decisions at the Landscape Architecture facility and understanding of their ecological impacts at scales ranging from site, campus, regional, and watershed will be the focus of this design week. more information
APA/ASLA Small Towns - Big Plans Conference - The Mississippi Chapters of ASLA and the American Planning Association (APA) will be holding a joint conference in Meridian October 25th-26th in Meridian, Mississippi at the MSU Riley Center. CEU's will be available. Click here for more information and the registration form We look forward to seeing you there. Final Brochure- Page 1 - Page2
The 52nd Edward C. Martin Landscape Design Symposium. The longest running landscape design symposium in the nation is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Mississippi State University and The Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc. The 52nd Edward C. Martin Landscape Design Symposium is scheduled to take place at Bost Auditorium on the Mississippi State University campus on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Noted regional landscape architects and nurserymen will present topics on residential landscape design and sustainable gardening. For more information about the program, visit http://www.lalc.msstate.edu/
Sadik C. Artunc, FASLA appointed Mississippi State University Landscape Architecture Department Head.
The Mississippi Concrete Industries Association is sponsoring a decorative concrete workshop in Gulfport on October 2. The guest speaker is Bob Harris with the Decorative Concrete Institute. Click here for the brochure.
2007 Call for Entries - Entries for the 2007 Professional and Student Awards Program are being accepted through June 15th. For more information please visit the Member Services page of this site. Questions, please contact Jason B. Walker, ASLA at 662.325.4561 or jwalker@lalc.msstate.edu
Register for the Eighth Annual Smart Growth Conference for Southern Mississippi to Be Held May 9-10
LA Month Social May 11th - A National LA Month Celebration will be held on Friday May 11th from 5pm-8pm on the Plaza at Mirror Lake Plaza in Flowood. (Click here for Brochure). Our guest speaker will be the new Department Head at MSU, professor Sadik C. Artunc. There will be free food and entertainment for all ASLA members! The entry fee for non-members will be $10.00 at the door. CEU Sessions will also be offered for a fee in the Ergon Conference facility in the Mirror Lake Office Building. (More information to follow)
Mississippi ASLA Members Meet with Representatives of Senators Lott and Cochran. On March 5th, 2007 a delegation of students and professionals met with representatives of Senator Trent Lott and Senator Thad Cochran to discuss important Landscape Architecture initiatives. Items discussed included the HALS (Historic American Landscape Survey) and ASLA's own Small Community Visioning Pilot Program. Both of these initiatives were well received. Please consider contacting your Senator and Representative to ask for their support of these initiatives. You can easily do so by visiting the ASLA Advocacy Network .
Ed Blake, ASLA is awarded Indianapolis Museum of Art design commission along with Architect Marlon Blackwell. Click here for more information.
LARE Review Session at MSU - The Landscape Architecture Department at MSU will be hosting an LARE Review Session April 14th & 15th, 2007. It will be leld by new dept. head Sadik Artunc, FASLA.