In person. Free.This tour has been submitted for 1.0 LA CES HSW + 1.0 AIA LU HSW. Status: pending.

Join us outside!

This year’s Inside/Out series continues at the latest iteration of one of Boston's most iconic civic spaces…

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Since 1883, Copley Square has been a vibrant gathering place framed by Boston’s most iconic architecture. To ensure its future as a cherished community hub, the City of Boston Parks & Recreation Department partnered with Sasaki to revitalize the 2.4-acre plaza.

Through an informed, community-driven process, the redesigned square offers a reinvigorated, equitable space for everyone. The update preserves mature trees, upgrades the fountain for function, sustainability, and ADA accessibility, improves walking paths, and creates a cohesive, flexible site for year-round events.

This tour will be led by

Kira Sargent, Sasaki

Zachary Christo, Sasaki

B Chatfield, Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Boston

All are welcome.

Tickets are free but limited. Get your tickets here.

Members and non-members, coworkers + students, friends + families + kids. Tickets are FREE, tour size limited, registration appreciated. Please come dressed for the weather, prepared to walk outside.

We aim to go in most weather. We will email all ticket holders and post any changes here.

We look forward to exploring with you!

Copley Square began as an intersection at the civic heart of the newly created Back Bay, and has changed dramatically along with the city.

Below, in 1950 and 1900. Source: Digital Commonwealth.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Calling all Emerging Professionals! Current students, summer interns, and recent graduates, this includes you. Please join Green Theory, Kompan, and QTL Lighting for the fourth annual summer meetup. Enjoy waterfront views, along with great company and conversation at The Tall Ship in East Boston.

Tickets are free but limited! RSVP here.

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

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In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

In person, free.

RSVP here

Late last month, the US Army Corps of Engineers released the Boston Coastal Storm Risk Management (CSRM) Draft Integrated Feasibility Report. See Mayor Wu's Instagram.

This is a DRAFT Report with open comment period now through September 18. This will mean billions of dollars of investment in our coastline, is closely interwoven with landscape architecture and the work of our industry, and will impact and serve as a model for the region and far beyond.

On Tuesday evening, August 11, BSLA will host a happy hour briefing and open conversation about the draft CSRM report, especially as relates to landscape architecture.

Join us to learn more about the draft report, discuss it as a professional community, and begin formulating questions and brainstorming discussion points for response letters.

All are welcome. RSVP requested for planning purposes. Hosted by Stantec at their downtown office, 40 Water Street, 3rd Floor, Boston.

Schedule

5pm Happy hour

5:30 - 6:30pm Briefing + Interactive Conversation

For Reference

Start here for overall

WBUR explains the big picture

Links to CSRM report documents

Context /Summary from City of Boston

Link to submit feedback (deadline September 18, 5pm)

We recognize that time is short and getting there may be impossible. We'll share additional resources, including related recordings, as they're available.

Cultivating Community Through Landscape Architecture

Please join the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) and Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign) for an evening of conversation, connection, and celebration of the power of landscape architecture to strengthen communities.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
LDa Architecture & Interiors
500 Harrison Avenue, Boston

This special summer gathering will bring together landscape architects, designers, community partners, and advocates who share a commitment to creating equitable, community-driven green spaces throughout Greater Boston.

The evening will feature remarks from:

Diana Fernandez Bibea, Commissioner, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, who will share perspectives on community-centered public space and her vision for Boston's parks and open spaces.

We will also hear from the teams involved in recent COGdesign projects, including the creation of a new public park at Codman Burying Ground. Located adjacent to the historic burial plots, the park expands the site’s role as a community gathering space while honoring its history. We will also highlight other community-led landscape projects such as Dartmouth Green in the South End that demonstrate how collaborative design can create lasting neighborhood impact.

Founded in 1995, COGdesign has completed more than 150 projects across Greater Boston, connecting communities with landscape architects and designers through a participatory design process that expands access to healthy, vibrant green spaces.

Enjoy light refreshments, reconnect with colleagues, meet emerging designers, and learn how landscape architecture can continue to advance environmental justice, community wellbeing, and neighborhood resilience.

Space is limited. RSVP required.

RSVP Here

We hope you'll join us for an inspiring evening celebrating the impact of landscape architecture in our communities.

Online. All welcome.

Zoom link here

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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Are you ready to protect water and nature in Massachusetts?

Join environmental, conservation, outdoor recreation, and parks advocates from across the state on Wednesday, July 22 at 11:00 AM as we launch our official YES campaign for the November ballot!

The Protect Water and Nature initiative will secure as much as $100 million every year for clean drinking water, healthy forests, and local parks — without raising taxes.

RSVP today: https://actionnetwork.org/events/protect-water-and-nature-yes-campaign-launch/

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

Free. In Person.

Join us for an Open Studio at Crowley Cottrell & Copley Wolff!

This event offers an opportunity to visit the studios, meet the teams, and learn more about their work. The event will include open networking, a brief overview of the firm’s work, and light refreshments. Open Studio events are designed to foster conversation, connection, and exchange within the landscape architecture and design community.

We'll start at Crowley Cottrell at 6 PM and leave for Copley Wolff at 7 PM.

6:00 PM @ Crowley Cottrell 7 Liberty Square, Suite 3, Boston, MA 02109

7:15 PM @ Copley Wolff 234 Congress Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02110

RSVP Here

Crowley Cottrell is a Boston-based landscape architecture practice founded by Michelle Crowley and Naomi Cottrell. Since 2011, the studio has built a body of work grounded in collaboration, clear thinking, and a strong commitment to design.

At Copley Wolff, landscape architecture is a collaborative process. We examine many different approaches to spaces and the issues surrounding them. No one person can tackle it all. We inspire each other. It’s the reason our designs are rich with beauty, meaning, detail and personality.

This Open Studio is generously sponsored by Victor Stanley.

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

In person, free.

Come join other Emerging Professionals for an early summer EP Mixer — a great-spirited, in-person gathering.

Get your ticket here

Connect with fellow Emerging Professionals, share ideas, and just have a good time! It’s the perfect chance to relax, network, and enjoy a summer evening.

Students, interns, new graduates, and those in the early stages of your career, this is for you! Members and non-members; landscape architects/designers, architects and planners too. Bring a friend. All are welcome.

Drinks and and charcuterie generously sponsored by Landscape Forms and Illuminate.

Hosted in the Illuminate Showroom.

Come ready to chat, laugh, and mingle!

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

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In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

In person, all welcome. Free for members + students, $20 general admission.

Register here

Happy PRIDE Month!

You are invited --

To celebrate PRIDE month, the BSLA DEI Committee invites you to join us for a historical walking tour of Boston Common and the Public Garden led by Queer History Boston. We'll explore the stories of LGBTQ+ Bostonians, including writers, activists, drag queens, pilgrims, and protestors; add queer context to historical monuments; and make connections between our community's history and our future.

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Come for the tour, stay for the social... Afterwards, we will convene at a local bar for drinks and light snacks (approx. 3pm, location TBD). You're welcome to come to the social even if you don't make the tour.

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Space is limited; RSVP required, sign up now!

Tickets are free for BSLA/ASLA members + students; $20 for all others. Tickets include the guided tour plus a round of drinks and snacks at the social.

Generously sponsored by BSC Group, Copley Wolff, Weston & Sampson, & BSLA.

All are welcome!

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online.

Register for the Zoom.

Are you interested in applying for Fellow— soon or someday far far away — but don’t know what this process is all about? Has the Fellows thing always seemed opaque and mysterious?

You are not alone! Bring your questions and join us for an online info session.

ALL AGES WELCOME.

Even if you’re in the first few years of your career, Fellowship is an honor that recognizes impact over time — so now is a great time to start.

Learn more about FASLA and see the most recent Fellows from our chapter

Online. All welcome.

Corrected Zoom link here

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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.

In person. Free. This tour has been submitted for 1.5 LA CES HSW + 1.5 AIA LU HSW. Status: pending.

Join us outside!

This year’s Inside/Out series continues at a new landmark green roof overlooking Boston Common…

RSVP here

Green roofs are more than design features; they are tools for climate action. This tour highlights how rooftop landscapes can cool cities, manage stormwater, and increase urban biodiversity.

The tour takes place at 127 Tremont St., The Monty Boston, a landmark green roof project overlooking Boston Common that demonstrates how policy, design, and stewardship intersect to create meaningful environmental impact. Attendees will gain practical insights into stormwater performance, green roof design, plant communities, maintenance strategies, and the collaborative process required to deliver successful living infrastructure projects. The session will illustrate how landscape architects, planners, developers, and policymakers can leverage green roofs to meet regulatory requirements while advancing broader ecological and community goals.

This tour will be led by

Philip Sima, founder, Balance Architects

Brendan Shea, building envelope & green infrastructure expert, Soprema USA

Mark Winterer, co-founder + owner, Recover Green Roofs

Steph Almasi, director of horticulture and maintenance, Recover Green Roofs

Read more about each speaker here.

All are welcome.

Tickets are free but limited. Get your tickets here.

Members and non-members, coworkers + students, friends + families + kids. Tickets are FREE, tour size limited, registration appreciated. Please come dressed for the weather, prepared to walk outside.

We aim to go in most weather. We will email all ticket holders and post any changes here.

We look forward to exploring with you!

In person. Free.

Happy PRIDE Month!

You are invited --

Join us for a reception for LGBTQIA+ members and allies celebrating our "interdependent" landscape architecture, architecture, planning, design, engineering, and construction communities. Meet other queer folks and friends. Enjoy food, drinks, music and a fun evening.

Tickets are free. Space is limited. RSVP here.

Hosted at the offices of Weston & Sampson.

Stop by and see their new space. Celebrate summer, soccer, and community.

Sponsored by Weston & Sampson, CDM Smith, & BSLA.

All are welcome!

Online. Free.

This is a quarterly Zoom meet up for landscape architects (or those trained as landscape architects), currently working in the public or nonprofit sector. This includes landscape architects/designers/planners working in city or town, state, or federal parks agencies as well as in other government departments or nonprofits — not in “regular” practice. We know that many of you face similar issues in your work. Many of you are The Only one of you who does what you do, too.

Our intent is to create space for this professional community to come together.

The topic of these meetings will shift depending on what you want to discuss. You do not need to be a BSLA or ASLA member to participate.

To join the Zoom, click here.

If you’d like to be added to the calendar invite, email Gretchen.

Pictured: Jessie Waisnor and Alexandra Vecchio, landscape architects with the Town of Brookline, lead a BSLA Inside/Out tour of new & historic Brookline public spaces, October 2023

Online.

This is the monthly meeting of BSLA’s elected Executive Committee (“ExComm”), Section chairs, Student chapter leaders, and Committee leaders. All members from Maine and Massachuetts are welcome to attend.

This typically takes place on the third Thursday of the month.

The regular agenda includes brief updates, questions, and calls-to-action from each of the leaders and the work that they represent, along with longer discussions on special topics. If you have a topic to bring to an ExComm meeting, please email BSLA President, Michelle Crowley.

It’s our regular, essential moment to connect and coordinate our activities across Mass & Maine, AND our means to collaboratively discuss questions, issues, and other important things.

The 2026 Zoom link is here. Email Gretchen to be added to the calendar invite. Join us!

We invite you to join us for a fun + festive evening.

In person, at Garage B at the Charles River Speedway.

at 6:30pm

The evening will begin with a RECEPTION. Say hello to old friends and meet someone new. There is so much great work happening, and so many extraordinary people helping to make our outdoor spaces healthier, more resilient, and full of joy. Join us to connect and celebrate and just enjoy each other's company.

at 7:30pm

ANNOUNCING the 2026 BSLA Design Awards! Once again, we are delighted to reveal this year's design award winners in an in-person, spring party.

Including a slideshow of recognized projects and presentation of award certificates.

Students, emerging professionals, firm leaders, and our larger landscape architecture community -- builders, clients, colleagues and friends, members + non-members, ALL ARE WELCOME.

Get your tickets here.

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Each ticket includes a light dinner + 2 drink tickets (21+). Catering by Notch Brewing + food trucks BiBimbox and Cabaña Sabores Latinos.

Rain or shine! The food trucks are outdoors and the reception will flow inside/out as much as weather and spirits allow.

The vibe will be informal + fun.

We strive to make the event as accessible as possible. If ticket price is a barrier, please be in touch. Email the chapteroffice@bslanow.org.

Thank you, sponsors!

All tickets include food & drink. This financial support helps minimize ticket prices for everyone.

Photos from BSLA Design Awards, May 2023 + 2024. All events are held at the same venue: Garage B at The Charles River Speedway in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston.

All photos by Anthony Crisafulli.

We can’t wait to see you!

Online.

This is an informal, monthly drop-in Zoom meeting of landscape architecture firm owners and leaders. 

Our goal is to create a space where New England landscape architecture firm owners and leaders can connect, commiserate, compare notes, and hopefully laugh a little with your peers in this community.

There is no fixed agenda, but we will start with a few discussion prompts and then you can take the conversation wherever you want to go. 

Questions or topics to discuss? contact BSLA President & Crowley Cottrell firm owner, Michelle Crowley.

Do you want to receive the monthly calendar invite? email Gretchen.

Here’s the Zoom link for 2026.

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join the Zoom

Our popular Firm Leaders / Owner's Zoom meetup has a new cousin: an online Zoom meetup for Solopreneurs!

This is a drop-in, come-as-you-are space to connect, commiserate, compare notes, and share a laugh with others who are also sole practitioners or leading tiny practices. Whether you recently went out on your own or have been doing this for decades, stop by and say hello.

This is a monthly thing. Members + non-members welcome. New England solo/small firms, this is a space for you.

To be added to the Google calendar invite, email Gretchen.

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In the photo: a solo plug from the Van Berkum Nursery Tour by solopreneur (and BSLA Plants Task Force Chair) April Maly.

In Person at Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton

The Western Mass Section of BSLA invites students, landscape architects, designers, teachers, makers, and all in our larger landscape architecture community to a Summer Social! Classmates, colleagues, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME.

RSVP Here

Say hi to old friends and meet someone new... Bring a coworker, family, friends, ALL ARE WELCOME. UMass and Five College and Conway students, this includes you!

Tickets are free for students + members, $10 non-members, and include lots of hot appetizers and 1 free drink ticket. Come and hang out + share good cheer.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Free. Online.

Register Here

Take a Risk with Rope Playgrounds - CEU Provided by Berliner Play Equipment & UltiPlay

Please join Berliner Play Equipment and UltiPlay for a free CEU!

UltiPlay clients across New England are invited to join a live webinar on Wednesday, June 3rd at 12 PM Eastern for a presentation of Take a Risk with Rope Playgrounds. Participants have the opportunity to join and earn 1 HSW learning unit with either AIA and LA CES.

CEU Session Description:

Do challenge and risk belong on the playground? As safety standards evolve, designers and agencies are increasingly asked to balance protection with opportunities for meaningful play. This session examines how rope-based playgrounds reintroduce manageable risk in ways that align with modern safety standards. We’ll explore the evolution of playground design and connect recent research on risky play to its benefits for children, including building confidence, resilience, and creativity. By unpacking the critical distinction between risk and hazard and reviewing key safety standards, attendees will leave with practical strategies for integrating developmentally beneficial risk into contemporary play environments.

Register Here

In Person. Free. NOTE: this event was originally scheduled on May 15 and postponed due to weather. Join us on this new date!

Sign up here

Ever wondered how to “read” a tree through pruning?

Ever wanted to build confidence working with trees -- not just talking about them?

Pruning practice day is an opportunity to learn proper structural pruning techniques for a variety of ornamental and fruiting trees.

This part of a special series of Inside/Out activities organized by the BSLA Plant Sourcing Task Force focused on meeting plants where they are. Join us!

Members and non-members, all are welcome.

What to bring:

• If you have them: Clean and sharpened BY-PASS pruning snips (or you can borrow some)

• Boots (the fields tend to be very muddy in the spring)

• Water

• Sun protection

• Questions, patience, + good humor

Lunch will be provided by Pierson Nurseries.

Join us to get hands on plants!

Online.

The relatively new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee of BSLA aims to foster a network of welcoming support focused on people of color and other minorities within and beyond the organization.

Given current events, this is necessary now more than ever.

What’s on your mind? What’s your lived experience? What do you/your colleagues need? How can we act together?

Members + non-members, students and recent graduates to seasoned leaders are welcome. Join us.

Click here to join the Zoom

Photo: BSLA Inside/Out tour of The Embrace + Boston Common, summer 2023

Online. All welcome.

Join us at our next monthly task force meeting on May 26th, 8:30-9:30am where we will debrief the plant-centric pieces of Fieldday 2026! There were a lot of plant-related talks and many of our nursery friends circling. Did you hear something or have a conversation that stuck out to you? Did you learn something really interesting? Or something you want to talk through more as a group? Join us on Zoom.

Zoom link here

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Welcome to the Plant Sourcing Task Force. This group focuses on anti-neonicotinoids as well as other issues such as seed grown plants, local ecotypes, etc.

All are welcome.