In Person. RSVP required.

The UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning (UMass LARP) and the Frank A. Waugh Alumni Board at UMass LARP invite you to our LARP Alumni Reunion Party on Saturday, November 14th, from 6:00-9:30 p.m. in the John W. Olver Design Building at UMass Amherst. All alumni, students, faculty, retired faculty, family, and friends are welcome to this evening of celebration!

RSVP Here

Please RSVP by November 4th using the link above.

See ticket pricing, the event schedule, and more details here.

In Person. Free.

WEATHER NOTE: The forecast calls for dry but chilly (in the 40s). Bundle up; we'll have coffee for all. WE ARE ON!

Join us outside!‍ ‍

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Or watch the recording (coming after the event)

As we near the end of this anniversary year, explore two Revolutionary War landscapes balancing preservation, accessibility, & modern use.

Our 2026 series continues in Lexington and Boston...

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Meet at the Minuteman statue. GPS link for the Minuteman.

The morning begins at the Lexington Battle Green, where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired on April 19, 1775. As part of a multi-year effort to rehabilitate this nationally significant landscape, KZLA has worked with the Town of Lexington to improve accessibility, restore historic features, and renew the public spaces surrounding its monuments and memorials. Coordinated with streetscape improvements designed by BETA Group, the work took on particular urgency in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, when 20,000 - 25,000 spectators attended the reenactment. We will discuss the challenges of balancing historic preservation with accessibility, extraordinary visitor demands, and the everyday life of a beloved community gathering place.

From there, we will cross the street... The 2024 Women's Monument, "Something Is Being Done," by sculptor Meredith Bergmann with Inge Daniels Design, expands the conversation beyond the traditional Revolutionary narrative to consider whose histories are represented in public space, and how contemporary landscape architecture supports that interpretation. And all of this work connects with a larger streetscape rejuvenation by BETA that interweaves 21st century accessibility, environmental, and placemaking priorities through Lexington's historic town center

Led by

Kyle Zick, ASLA, Kyle Zick Landscape Architecture

Inge Daniels, ASLA, Inge Daniels Design

Nathan Socha, ASLA, BETA Group, Inc.

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Meet at the intersection of Telegraph & Mercer Streets, South Boston. GPS link for the Telegraph/Mercer intersection.

The afternoon continues at the newly restored Dorchester Heights Monument and Thomas Park, a landmark landscape overlooking Boston Harbor and the site of a pivotal American Revolutionary War victory. In March 1776, George Washington's forces fortified these heights, compelling British troops to evacuate Boston. Nearly 250 years later, a major National Park Service restoration has renewed the historic monument and its surrounding 5.4-acre landscape. With landscape architecture by Arcadis, the project addresses longstanding challenges of accessibility, deteriorating infrastructure, and historic preservation by providing regraded pathways, integrated ramps, restored stairs and retaining walls, upgraded drainage and lighting, and new interpretive elements.

We will explore how contemporary landscape interventions can honor a nationally significant historic site while making it safer, more accessible, and more welcoming.

Led by

John Amodeo, FASLA (retired; formerly Arcadis)

Come to one or the other or both!

We will meet at 10am at the Lexington Battle Green, in front of the Minuteman statue.

We will meet at 1pm at Dorchester Heights.

Travel between sites is on your own. On-street parking is available near both locations.

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All are welcome.

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!

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.

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with TBD

See details on this lecture and the entire series 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.

Online. Free. All welcome.

Join us for the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children (GDIRC) bi-monthly meeting! This meeting is hosted via Zoom.

Join the Zoom Meeting here.

The Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children is led jointly by BSLA and BSA. To find out more, visit the GDIRC website here or visit the Global Design Initiative for Refugee Children Knowledge Community page on the BSA website here.

In person. Free.

Join us outside!

Join us for a preview of Portland's newest public spaces: First Light Commons + Reiche Playground

Sign up here

Our 2026 series continues in Portland, Maine...

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The afternoon begins at First Light Commons, a new 3.5-acre public park transforming Portland’s eastern waterfront from a paved vehicle queuing area into a vibrant, welcoming green space. Developed through a partnership between the City of Portland and Portland Parks Conservancy, the new park will reconnect the city to its working waterfront with an expanded multi-use trail, waterside promenade, flexible gathering spaces, open lawns, native and salt-tolerant plantings, and new trees. The name "First Light Commons" honors the region’s Wabanaki heritage as well as connections to the Underground Railroad, and is part of the City's waterfront master plan to develop an interconnected linear open space resiliency system along the waterfront, expanding storm mitigation strategies.

First Light Commons officially opens later this fall. Join us to preview the design, learn about the community-driven process and phased implementation, and see how this once utilitarian stretch of waterfront is being transformed.

First Light Commons site tour will be led by

Margo Barajas, PLA, Sebago Technics

Nathan Frazee, City of Portland Parks, Recreation, and Facilities Department

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The afternoon continues at the newly renovated Reiche School Playground, one of Portland's most heavily used neighborhood play spaces. The renovation transforms a 23-year-old playground into a renewed public landscape serving both Reiche Community School and the surrounding West End neighborhood. Shaped by a community engagement process that included design charrettes, public meetings, and input from students, school staff, and neighbors, the new playground incorporates nature-based play features, including logs, boulders, timber elements, and boardwalks, alongside traditional play equipment, new plantings, and gathering spaces,.

Reiche Playground officially reopens with a ribbon cutting November 2. Later that week, we will exlopre how thoughtful design and community collaboration can create engaging, multifunctional play environments to serve children, families, and the broader neighborhood.

Reiche Playground site tour will be led by

Tatyana Vashchenko, PLA, City of Portland Parks, Recreation, and Facilities Department

Sashie Misner, PLA, Sashie Misner Landscape Architecture

Addy Smith-Reiman, PTO Playground Committee Chair and director of the Spatial Design Academy programs

Come to one or the other or both!

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All are welcome.

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!

Learn more and RSVP here

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with “Stories of Place: Contextual Design in Contemporary Cities," Zube Lecture Presented by Kate Tooke

See details on this lecture and the entire series here.

In person. Free.

Join us outside!

A plants-focused tour of six (!!) new meadows at this unique residential landscape

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Have you tried to convert lawn to meadow?

The enormous ecological benefits of meadows are well known: increased biodiversity, improved pollinator habitat, better stormwater filtration and water quality, reduced chemical use, higher carbon storage -- the list goes on -- and they're beautiful! Yet meadows also can be slow, complicated, and intimidating.

Join us for a special tour led by landscape architect Cate Oranchak and builder Fred Anderson of a suburban residential property that is several years in to the process of creating six different meadows.

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!

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All are welcome.

Members and non-members, coworkers + students, clients + friends.

Tickets are FREE, tour size limited, registration appreciated. Please come dressed for the weather, prepared to walk outside on uneven terrain.

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!

Learn more and RSVP here.

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

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with "The Once and Future New England Mill Town," Zube Lecture Presented by John Mullin.

See details on this lecture and the entire series here.

Free. In person. Registration required.

Landscape After Dark: An Outdoor Lighting Mockup @ The Loring Greenough House

Join IES Boston and BSLA for an outdoor lighting mockup at the historic Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain.

After arrivals and a short welcome, we’ll walk through a live demonstration with fixtures already in place on the grounds. We’ll look at several approaches to lighting trees and discuss how each changes the look and feel of the space after dark. We’ll also talk about other opportunities for landscape lighting across the site. Afterward, we’ll gather for a social hour, a chance for lighting and landscape design professionals to catch up and compare notes on what we saw.

The mockup also has a practical purpose: helping Loring Greenough House explore possibilities for future permanent landscape lighting. Come see how different approaches could inform the next chapter of this historic landscape.

When: Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 6–8 p.m., weather permitting

Where: Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain

Admission: Free

Registration: Space is limited to 30 attendees. Advance registration is required through the IES Boston website.

Register Here

This event takes place outdoors and is weather permitting. Any weather-related changes will be communicated to registered attendees.

Getting there: Free street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood. Please allow extra time and observe posted restrictions. Carpooling and public transit are encouraged. The house is served by MBTA Route 39, and Green Street station on the Orange Line is approximately a half-mile walk.

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.

In Person. Free.

Join RI ASLA at Adams Farm for a fun and festive autumn afternoon at the pumpkin patch!

All are welcome. Members and non-members, coworkers + students, friends + families + kids too.

Tickets are FREE; registration appreciated, but not required.

RSVP Here

Adams Farm has additional activities available for a fee: see ticket pricing here.

We aim to go in most weather. We will email all ticket holders and post any changes here. The tentative rain date will be Sunday, October 25.

Free. In Person.

Outdoor maker space to build and play

Hands-on Workshop at City Hall Annex Plaza, 344 Broadway, Cambridge. Outdoor maker space to build and play. Refreshments.

See how play spaces take shape, from first sketch to finished structures, in a hands-on exhibition of playground design by Cambridge artist Mitch Ryerson at Cambridge Arts’ Gallery 344, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, from Sept. 21 to Dec. 31, 2026.

See more here.

Western Mass AIA seeks to celebrate landscape design excellence

WMAIA Celebration of Architecture and Design Awards Program Call for Entries

For firms based in Western Mass practicing anywhere

For projects sitedin Western Mass by firms from anywhere

In partnership with the Western Mass Section of BSLA, this longstanding bi-annual program of the WMAIA aims to encourage and recognize distinguished architectural and landscape design achievement and honor the project team - including the clients and consultants who work together to improve the built environment. Keep reading...

Early bird discount through September 25

All materials due by October 16

Members + non-members welcome!

READ THE CALL FOR ENTRIES

Register Here

Use code EARLY to save $25 by registering your project by September 25th.  Submissions are due October 16th – there will be no extensions to this deadline.

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with "UMass Amherst Planning Faculty and PhD Student Research," Zube Panel Discussion with Peter Dunn, Theodore Eisenman, and Paromita Shome.

See details on this lecture and the entire series here.

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!

Master in Design Studies presents: BUILDING POSTCARBON FUTURES: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions

Billy Fleming (Temple University) in conversation with Holly Jean Buck (University at Buffalo) and Abby Spinak (GSD)

Charles Waldheim, host

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026, 12:00 PM | GUND HALL, LOEB LIBRARY

Building Postcarbon Futures asks: what would a postcarbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live—and to thrive—in that world? Around the globe, people are transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems in response to the climate crisis. This book guides readers through 29 of these exemplary works, which span 43 nations and six continents. From Cuba to Kiribati, Iceland to the Andes, the prairies of North America to the expanding Gobi Desert, these case studies foreground the tactics and modes of practice being employed, often by marginalized peoples, to create more humane, hospitable places. With dispatches from more than a dozen leading scholars working on the front lines of the climate justice movement, Building Postcarbon Futures: Land, Justice, and Energy Transitions is both a celebration of action underway and a clarion call to the planners, designers, policymakers, and activists who are pushing this planet toward a future of collective flourishing.

Billy Fleming is an interdisciplinary scholar of climate justice. He is the co-founder and strategic co-director of the Climate and Community Institute, a progressive think tank that works with movements and elected officials to mobilize cutting-edge research on climate, economy, and everyday life.

Holly Jean Buck is a sociologist investigating the social, ethical, and political dimensions of emerging climate and energy policies. She envisions governance structures for a wide range of climate responses, from rural place-based efforts in natural resource management and clean energy to global-scale climate interventions, like solar radiation modification and carbon removal.

In person. Free.

Join us outside!

The Emerging Professionals invite you to a fall hike in Charles Eliot's "wilderness reserve"

RSVP here

Our 2026 series continues in Milton, Massachusetts... a fall hike in the Blue Hills!

This hike will focus on the botany and plants of this landscape today, informed by the history of this special place.

This tour will be led by

Yasser Aponte, Friends of the Blue Hills

Organized the BSLA Emerging Professionals and Friends of the Blue Hills, all are welcome!

ABOUT THE BLUE HILLS RESERVATION

From the Massachusetts Department of Recreation & Conservation:

Located only minutes from the bustle of downtown Boston, the DCR Blue Hills Reservation stretches over 7,000 acres from Quincy to Dedham, Milton to Randolph, providing a green oasis in an urban environment. Rising above the horizon, Great Blue Hill reaches a height of 635 feet, the highest of the 22 hills in the Blue Hills chain. From the rocky summit visitors can see over the entire metropolitan area. With its scenic views, varied terrain and 125 miles of trails, the Blue Hills Reservation offers year-round enjoyment for the outdoor enthusiast.

From Digital Commonwealth:

Charles Eliot was instrumental in the acquisition of the Blue Hills Reservation by the Metropolitan Park Commission in 1893. He believed that the reservation’s “wildness” offered a counterpoint to Boston’s intentionally manicured urban parks, such as the Public Garden.

When the fledgling Metropolitan Park Commission acquired the Blue Hills and three other reservations, Park Commissioner Herbert S. Carruth declared, “There will be no attempt made to beautify them. We shall not even own a lawn mower.”

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This tour will meet at Houghton's Pond. Visitor parking is free at the Houghton's Pond parking lot. MBTA bus 716 stops at Houghton's Pond.

All are welcome.

Members and non-members, coworkers + students, friends + families + kids.

To those of you in the early years of your career -- this is especially for you!

Tickets are FREE, tour size limited, registration appreciated. Please come dressed for the weather, prepared to walk outside on uneven terrain.

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!

Learn more and RSVP here.

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At top, from The Cultural Landscape Foundation, courtesy Friends of the Blue Hills, 2016

Above, black and white photo from the National Park Service, Olmsted Archives

Color photos by Harvard GSD Professor Anita Berrizbeitia, FASLA.

Below map from Digital Commonwealth:

This map, created by the Park Commission in 1905, uses hachures to show the “bold” elevation changes that Eliot celebrated for their panoramic views.

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.

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with "Land & Environmental Artists," Zube Panel Discussion.

See details on this lecture and the entire series 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.

2026 STORMWATER INNOVATION EXPO

Nature at Work – Water, Soil, Plants & Trees Protecting our Communities

When: Wednesday, October 7  8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Where: Roger Williams Park Casino, 1000 Elmwood Ave, Cranston, RI 02907

Discover the latest trends in stormwater management technology and professional services at RI's only Stormwater Innovation Expo! Join the Rhode Island Green Infrastructure Coalition, the Stormwater Innovation Center, and the Providence Parks Department for the Eighth Annual Stormwater Innovation Expo- a day dedicated to the innovative products, practices, and partnerships shaping the design, construction, maintenance, and monitoring of green stormwater infrastructure across Rhode Island.

​Visit 2026 expo.eventbrite.com to register for this year's event!

Free. In Person.

See How Playground Structures Are Hand-Crafted By Cambridge Artist Mitch Ryerson

Cambridge Arts Exhibit Runs Sept. 21-Dec. 31, 2026

See how play spaces take shape, from first sketch to finished structures, in a hands-on exhibition of playground design by Cambridge artist Mitch Ryerson at Cambridge Arts’ Gallery 344, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, from Sept. 21 to Dec. 31, 2026.

Join us for a reception for the exhibition “Joyful Anarchy: Mitch Ryerson – Playgrounds" on Monday, Oct. 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. Visiting the gallery and all gallery events are always free and open to all.

In Person. Free.

Join the BSLA DEI Committee on a guided museum tour led by Michael A. Norton, PhD candidate in the Harvard University History of Art and Architecture Department, to learn how landscape and its visual representations were conceptualized and explored in pre-modern East Asian art. Through close examination of objects currently on display in the Harvard Art Museums, this gallery talk introduces important moments in the history of the Chinese and Japanese landscape traditions as they evolved across time and cultures. Space will be limited.

RSVP Here.

Free. In person.

Zube Lectures are held every Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ET (unless otherwise noted) in the John W. Olver Design Building Lecture Hall (Room 170) at 551 North Pleasant St, Amherst, MA 01002. Lecture recordings are posted to UMass LARP - YouTube following each event.

The annual lecture series of the UMass Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning continues with "Greenfield Urban Planning in Africa," Zube Lecture Presented by Vernon Henderson.

See details on this lecture and the entire series here.

Online. Free. 1 AIA LU HSW.

Designing the modern sauna

Sauna is no longer a niche finish detail. It's a line item now, showing up in hospitality, multifamily, athletic, and corporate projects with increasing frequency. And the material conversation is changing alongside it: the traditional imported species are being reassessed on embodied carbon, IEQ performance, and supply chain reliability.

Join Alex Layoff, Owner of Finnish Sauna Builders, and Allison Palmer, Director of National Sales at Cambium, for a free one-hour course for architects, interior designers, builders, and specifiers on getting the sauna right, from species selection through electrical coordination.

Register Here.

In person on Cape Cod | September 29-30

We're pleased to invite you to the third Modern Living Symposium -- a bi-annual gathering of architects, landscape architects, and builders with a dedicated focus on residential design.

The Modern Living Symposium is an immersive two‑day event exploring the future of outdoor living. It offers insights from leading residential practitioners -- architects, landscape architects, and builders -- through educational sessions and hands-on learning labs that highlight innovative technologies, emerging trends, and native-driven design strategies.

Connect with residential industry experts and learn through interactive workshops, lectures, and exceptional networking. Held at AutoCamp, a unique coastal destination on Cape Cod at the edge of Buzzards Bay, with special opening sessions at the historic Highfield Hall.

Use code BSLA26 to save 20%

Get early bird rates while they last!

BSLA is the LACES + AIA continuing education provider for the symposium.

All education sessions have been approved for continuing ed credit. Participants are expected to earn up to 7.0 LACES and/or AIA credits over the two days.

Follow @ModernLivingSymposium to learn more about sessions, speakers, and the latest event details.

From our friends at UltiPlay:

Are you headed to ASLA in Los Angeles or NRPA in Philadelphia this year? If so, we'd love to invite you to our All-States Socials!

UltiPlay Parks & Playgrounds is teaming up with several of our national playground partners to host an evening of networking and fun at both conferences. It's a great chance to meet landscape architects and parks and recreation professionals from across the country. All are welcome, but RSVP is required!

All-States Social @ ASLA — Los Angeles

 September 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

 Tom's Watch Bar, 1011 S Figueroa St B101, Los Angeles, CA 90015

 RSVP at bit.ly/asla-allstatessocial

All-States Social @ NRPA — Philadelphia

 September 29, 4 to 6 p.m.

 F1 Arcade, 1330 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19107

 RSVP at bit.ly/nrpa-allstatessocial