Domains associated with American Society Of Landscape Architects

The Oregon Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects is the state organization for landscape architecture professionals in our region.

The Magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Stoss is a cutting-edge design firm that believes in the productive role of landscape in the making and re-making of cities and social spaces. We work primarily in the public realm, regardless of whether our clients are cities, public agencies, institutions, or private interests. And we're involved in projects of many kinds: urban and campus and ecological spaces; regional and urban strategies; multi-scale landscape infrastructures; development and re-development projects; parks and open spaces; furnishings and exhibitions. We're landscape architects and urbanists. More than that, we're thinkers, teachers, and entrepreneurs. We ask questions, and we look for non-conventional solutions: How do you make nature in the city? How do you manufacture ecologies that bring urban spaces back to life? How do you design social spaces that take on a life of their own? We are as interested in how projects work for people and clients as we are in what they look like. We believe it's possible to be both inventive and pragmatic, beautiful and functional. And we're interested in simple technical efficiencies and hybrid solutions that can do many things at the same time—most importantly enriching the lives and experiences of people. We've been lucky enough to be recognized for our work nationally and internationally—recently being awarded the National Design Award in Landscape Architecture. We have also been honored both by leading design journals (Progressive Architecture Award and Topos International Landscape Award) and by place-based organizations (Top Honor Award for Waterfront Design by the Waterfront Center). We've won numerous awards from organizations such as the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, for both built and speculative projects. Our work and thinking have been published in a monograph titled StossLU by C3 of Korea; Source Books in Landscape Architecture 7; the Landscape Urbanism Reader; Architecture; Landscape Architecture; Topos; PRAXIS; and numerous other periodicals in North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Anne is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT, where she teaches courses on urban landscape design and planning, photography, and landscape history. Before MIT, she taught at Harvard and at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book, Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange’s Photographs and Notes from the Field (University of Chicago Press, 2008) received the 2009 Great Place Book Award from the Environmental Design Research Association and the 2009 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies for a book that “breaks new ground.” It was a finalist for the Art Historian Association\'s 2009 Art Book Award and for the American Association of Publishers\' 2008 PROSE Awards in Art and Art History. Her first book, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design (Basic Books, 1984), is still in print and has been published in Japanese and Portuguese. In 1984 it received the President\'s Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and, in 2009, the American Planning Association named it one of the “essential books” of the past century. Her second book, The Language of Landscape (Yale, 1998) is a required text in landscape architecture and landscape studies.