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LASN News September, 198909-01-89 | News

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LAF/CLASS Fund

Recognition of Excellence

The California Landscape Architectural Student Scholarship Fund is pleased to announce that its LAF/CLASS Fund Design Competition Awards Banquet will be held Friday, October 13, 1989, at the Irvine Hilton and Tower, 17900 Jamboree Blvd., Irvine, California. For more information, Call (714) 997-3233.

Creative Electric

Creative Electric has announced the completion of an extensive night lighting project featuring NIGHTSCAPING, the 1 2-volt outdoor lighting system. Nearly 200 Nightscaping fixtures were used in the project, Bristol Court, which is located on Allesandro Boulevard in Moreno Valley, California. The general contractor is Germania Construction. The developer is Venture Partners.

Missouri Landscape Architects Gain Licensure

Missouri Landscape Architects praised Governor John Ashcroft, who recently established registration for Landscape Architects by signing House Committee Substitute for House Bills Nos. 190, 191, and 562. Missouri is the 41st state with such legislation. Initial efforts to gain the licensing requirement for Landscape Architects began in 1964. During the past eight years, the Missouri Association of Landscape Architects, with the support of the American Society of Landscape Architects, worked out the necessary legislation with allied professional organizations and gained the support of the legislature.

Jeffrey Bruce, Chairman of the Missouri Society of Landscape Architects stated, “We support Missouri’s commitment to sound environmental development. On a daily basis, Landscape Architects in the State of Missouri act on behalf of the public with great social and environmental responsibilities. The enactment of this legislation recognizes the contribution Landscape Architects make in the competent design and preservation of Missouri’s natural resources.”

The purpose of the legislation is to protect and promote the health, safety and welfare of the people of Missouri by requiring certain qualifications of those individuals using the title of Landscape Architect. There are approximately five hundred Landscape Architects practicing in Missouri. They are involved with planning, designing, and managing communities, land developments, and natural resources in Missouri.

San Diego ASLA

As a part of the 1989 “San Diego by Design Week,” the San Diego Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) put on an “ART in the Landscape Fair” in Balboa Park, June 17-18. Information booths and project displays helped educate the public about Landscape Architecture. Ms. Janet Disraeli of the Art Collector displayed color slides and photographs of artwork of various artists. An outdoor sculpture garden, complete with flowering trees and shrubs, was created featuring the sculpture of Mr. Paul Cornett and Mr. Kenyon Lewis.

The feature event of the fair was a ceramic tile workshop. Members of the public decorated ceramic tile with glazes of; various colors. The tiles were donated by Mr. Greg Mowat of Del Piso Brick and Tile Company of San Diego. People were free to create any design they chose to express. Advice and assistance was provided by Lewis, an artist and tile manufacturer with Malibu Ceramic Works in Topanga, CA. Malibu Ceramic Works also offered to kiln-fire the finished tiles. The tiles and a donation will be given >to the St. Vincent de Paul Center to be used in their new courtyard addition of the Joan Kroc Center for the Homeless.

LAF/Class Fund Landscape Awards Judging Panel Selected

Chairman of the LAF/CLASS FUND Awards program, Francis Sullivan of Sullivan Concrete Textures, has announced this year’s panel of judges for the “Landscape Awards ‘89” Banquet.

Selecting the winners of this fourth annual event will be: George Schmok of The Landscape Architect and Specifier News; Micky Strauss of American Landscape; Keith Simon, President of the ASLA San Diego Chapter; Bob Perry, a Cal Poly Professor; Landscape Architect Bill Evans; Gordon Craig of Taylor Woodrow Homes, California, LTD; Terry Jacobson of Leason Pomeroy & Associates; and Steven Kellenberg of Phillips Brandt & Reddick.

The Awards of Excellence will be presented at the Irvine Hilton & Towers, Irvine, CA, during the October 13 event to Southern California landscape architects on behalf of their achievements in such categories as hotels/resorts, business parks, custom single family residences and community master landscape plans.