-- @landarchitects need you to share photos of your favorite green spaces #WLAM2015

WASHINGTON, March 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Landscape architects are the people responsible for designing the parks, plazas, bike trails and other green spaces that make the outdoors fun, healthy, and sustainable. If you had to pick a favorite designed green space to photograph, which would you pick? That's the question asked by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as it launches World Landscape Architecture Month in April.

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ASLA is unveiling the eventformerly National Landscape Architecture Monthin collaboration with the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). Participants will celebrate landscape architecture by engaging their communities through the #WLAM2015 social media campaign. ASLA's chapters will also introduce the profession to schools and connect with IFLA member organizations in other countries via Skype and social media.

"We're excited to celebrate landscape architecture on a global level," said Nancy Somerville, Hon. ASLA, executive vice president and CEO of ASLA. "We look forward to working with IFLA member organizations around the world and helping to develop the next generation of landscape architects."

"At a time when the globe faces major challenges caused by industrialization, urbanization, climate changes and the depletion of natural resources, World Landscape Architecture Month shines a light on our progressive profession," said Professor Kathryn Moore, IFLA president. "We are pleased that international collaboration such as this will illuminate the solutions landscape architecture offers."

Celebrate #WLAM2015 and help us go viral: asla.org/wlam

How to share your photo for #WLAM2015:

- Download the wallet-sized card that reads "Designed by a Landscape Architect" here: http://asla.org/uploadedFiles/CMS/Events/WLAMcard8.5x11.pdf

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Union Stations entrance, normally snarled with personal vehicles and taxis, could become an open plaza with fountains and caf seating, across Union Avenue from a demolished or rebuilt Church Street South housing complex.

That vision emerged at a charette, or brainstorming design session, about how to improve the train station, New Havens gateway to much of the outside world.

Participants envisioned car traffic minimized by lower speed limits, and taxis lining up behind the station rather than out on the street.

As they dreamed up a new vision at the session, which took place Friday, engineers and architects invoked the names of early 20th century urban planners Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Cass Gilbert, and the comprehensive plan they drew up in 1910 for the city, which would have connected the station with downtown. (Click here for a story on that plan.) They spoke of restoring he grandeur that Olmstead and Gilbert had envisioned for the city.

David Panagore, executive director of Park New Haven (pictured), said Fridays workshop was a visioning process, including ideas New Haven might want to pursue before the state builds a promised second parking garage.

Were not headed from here to construction, he said. It is important to start feeding ideas now.

Divided into three teams, the architects and engineers were tasked with ways to better organize Union Avenue, enhance the visitor experience to the station, and promote transit, walking and cycling.

Architect Howard Hebel of Newman Architects (pictured) and his group tackled the design of Union Avenue and providing elbow room for all the current forms of transit at the train station as well as increased numbers of people walking and biking to the station. Their plan called for keeping the drop/off and arrivals out front and having the taxi line at a different end of the station. Instead of valet parking out front, they would relegate it to one of the parking garages. A potential traffic-calming idea would be to create an island much like the one in the Broadway district for Union Avenue. The group envisioned the front of the station connecting to the future Union Square envisioned for the Hill-to-Downtown project.

Before tackling the visitors experience outside Union Station, architect Patrick Pinnells group could not resist addressing the inside, which he described a big space that is not coherent. The group would start with an information kiosk with a person inside to help people get their bearings and information.

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Events and programs for Women's History Month continue with a lecture Thursday about women architects of the San Francisco Bay Area hosted by the Oakland Heritage Alliance at the Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes.

Thursday's speaker is Inge Horton, who extensively researched Julia Morgan's 40-year career and other lesser known women who were architects in the Bay Area from in the first half of the 20th century. The talk is based on her book Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area -- The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951.

The author sets the stage for her topic by laying out the closely protected lives of young upper and middle class girls and women at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century. The expectations were that members of the "fairer" sex embarked on higher education primarily to enhance their chances to marry and to produce and care for children. According to Horton, this started to change when many women became involved in the suffrage and temperance movements.

There was a rise in women's clubs and church groups signaling that women were leaving the confines of their homes and beginning to exert their influence in the public sphere. Western states, including California achieved voting rights for women earlier passage of suffrage occurred in 1911 as opposed to nationwide in 1920, when the constitutional amendment was passed. In 50 years, California had grown from a rough, male dominated mining frontier, population 92,000 in 1850, to a population of 1.5 million in 1900; 45 percent were women.

Horton highlights Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919), who was the first female regent for the University of California. Hearst, whose mining magnate husband was George Hearst, used her wealth to enhance the growing university, and to encourage policies that would benefit women students. History files reveal that one of those students was a young Julia Morgan, then studying civil engineering.

At the time Morgan (1872-1957) entered the University in 1890, it was a small and relatively unknown institution, states Horton, with 432 undergraduates, 100 of whom were women. There was not an architecture course of study, but the university had hired a talented draftsman, Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957), to teach students "descriptive geometry." Maybeck, only a decade older than his students, had trained at the prestigious Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. He encouraged Morgan, one of his most promising students to do the same, even though up until that time no female had been admitted to the school.

Horton's book profiles the careers of 50 women bay area architects, in addition to Julia Morgan. One of these, Mildred Meyers (1898-1982), came along a generation later than Morgan. By the time Meyers entered UC Berkeley, it had an architecture department. Mildred was one of three daughters of a respected local architect and she followed in her father's footsteps. The sisters lived all their lives in the family home in central Alameda, and Mildred assisted in her father's firm, designing the Veterans Memorial Buildings in Alameda County (including Oakland's) and Highland Hospital.

Today, the Meyers Neo-Colonial style home and gardens is a museum, where the public can see the environment where this not as well known female architect spent her days. The property also has the studio building where she and her father worked on their commissions.

Julia Morgan's childhood home in Oakland does not survive, unfortunately, and can only be seen in photographs.

Horton's lecture will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave. For more about the Heritage Alliance program, and to make a reservation, go to http://www.oaklandheritage.org.

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