As April comes to a close, we’re looking back on a month full of meaningful moments.
From Autism Acceptance Month, a time to uplift neurodiverse voices, foster understanding, and promote inclusion, to World Landscape Architecture Month, Earth Day, and Arbor Day, it’s been a time to reflect on the people, environments, and perspectives that shape our communities.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in recognizing and honoring these moments.
The Illinois ASLA awards program recognizes projects with the distinction of President, Honor, and Merit Awards. View past award winners in the online gallery at /awards-ilasla/ these projects are excellent examples of the diversity of the profession and how landscape architecture positively impacts everyday interactions with the surrounding environment. The awards are presented at Celebration.
Submissions open April 27 and close May 29, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Questions? Contact [email protected]
Photo: 2025 Presidential Award | 800 Fulton - Greenprint Partners
Happy Earth Day! 🌎🌱
Today we celebrate the beauty, resilience, and importance of our natural world, and the role our profession plays in protecting and shaping it. From thoughtful design to sustainable practices, our work helps create healthier, more connected environments. With Arbor Day coming up this Friday, it’s the perfect time to keep the momentum going by caring for the landscapes around us. 🌳
Please join us as special guests for the annual IIT Alfred Caldwell Lecture in Landscape Architecture on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, from 5–7 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall. The Alfred Caldwell Lecture invites speakers who, like Caldwell, hold strong positions on landscape architecture, design culture, ecology, democracy, poetry, and literature, and whose life work embodies the ethical aspirations of humanity. Through reflections on commemoration, the event brings together voices from design, food, culture, and the arts to explore the intersections of land, memory, and creative practice. The lecture will be co-hosted by Grow Greater Englewood, in partnership with their effort to enact the Englewood Agro-Eco District Grow Park and Nursery.
Please share with your networks, and we look forward to seeing you there. Good food and music guaranteed!!!
Celebrate Earth Day and Landscape Architecture Month with a day of service at the Heritage Quarries Recreation Area in Lemont. Volunteers will work together to remove invasive plants and plant new trees. Families are welcome.
Organizer: ILASLA Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee, Service Committee and the Wilder World Trust
When: Saturday, April 25th 9am to 12pm
Where: Heritage Quarries Recreation Area
Meet at Parking Lot #1
14657 Main St.
Lemont, IL
Register online at il-asla.org
All month long, we’ve been celebrating Women’s History Month!
From recognizing achievements to uplifting voices in our community and profession, it’s been a time to honor the impact and contributions of women. Here’s to continuing that support and inspiration all year long. 💐✨
Do you want to join the ILASLA Board?! Nominations are now open for President-Elect/President/Past President!
This three-year term is a great opportunity to get involved, build leadership experience, and help shape the future of ILASLA. Self-nominations are encouraged, so we’d love to see you put your name forward!
The deadline to submit is April 24, and nominees must be Full or Associate members. Don’t miss your chance to be part of it!
Mark your calendars! 🎉 Join us for the ILASLA Emerging Professionals Event on March 19 at Punch Bowl Social. It’s going to be a fun night of networking, games, and making connections with fellow landscape architecture professionals. Don’t miss out on a great evening of laughs, friendly competition, and building your professional community! Don't forget to register!
As we close out February, we’re taking a moment to celebrate all the holidays, milestones, and special moments this month brought. From meaningful traditions to fun festivities, February gave us plenty of reasons to gather, reflect, and enjoy time together. Here’s to a February that was truly special and meaningful, and to carrying that spirit forward into the months ahead.
Mi gente, we invite you all to our second webinar of the series "Life in the time of ICE" BE AN ADVOCATE.
At a time when we see human rights being blatantly disregarded, community building becomes a political act. Immigrant America is a living and dignified part of our society whose rights must be advocated for and protected. This webinar will feature several panelists, covering different scales and calls to action, offering resources to advocate and protect the immigrant community and sparking collaboration.
The goal of this webinar is to learn how to be an advocate, building acknowledgment and sharing experiences and resources, and to envision a collaborative network with ASLA chapters, affinity groups, universities and landscape architecture firms.
SPEAKERS:
💥 Professor Michelle Franco, Ohio State University @michellearevalosfranco
💥 Adrian Tenney, TERREMOTO @terremoto_landscape
💥 Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati, Topohyla Landscape Design @topophyla
REGINTRATION LINK ⬆ UNDER LINKS or use this short link: https://bit.ly/4rvpHZO
@nationalasla@nyupstateasla@ilasla@asla.norcal@asla_ny@az_asla@asla_md@terremoto_landscape@topophyla@crowlandscapes@bethanyrydmark
Mi gente, we invite you all to our first webinar of the series "Life in the time of ICE" BE PREPARED.
In this time of increasing ICE and Border Patrol activity and disruption, learn what you can do to stay safe and help your community be safe.
SPEAKER: Anita Bueno @creativemover , DEI Committee Chair, New York Upstate ASLA @nyupstateasla@nationalasla
REGINTRATION LINK ⬆ UNDER LINKS
Geared specifically for landscape architects, employees and employers, this webinar will focus on basic information about what to do in case of encountering immigration authorities in the workplace. It will cover individual rights with respect to interacting with federal agents on public and private property, and items one needs to consider when making a workplace or personal preparedness plan in the event you, or someone you know is detained or arrested.
Learning objectives:
🌀 Understand current trends and tactics used in immigration enforcement, and how they have evolved from longstanding past enforcement priorities, including the dissolution of sensitive locations.
🌀 Review one’s constitutional and legal rights, how they differ whether interacting with ICE or Border Patrol.
🌀 Contrast what legal rights one may have on public vs. private property and how public and private property is defined.
🌀 Examine what you can do to stay safe in situations of immigration enforcement.
🌀 Understand how to begin creating a workplace or personal preparedness plan.
This webinar will have items specific to NY state, but is open to all.
1 LACES PDH pending
@ilasla@asla.norcal@terremoto_landscape@topophyla@crowlandscapes@bethanyrydmark
