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The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 15,000 members and 48 chapters, representing all 50 American states, US territories, and 42 countries around the world.
The Society was founded on January 4, 1899 with the following goals:
- To establish landscape architecture as a recognized profession in North America;
- To develop educational studies in landscape architecture; and
- To provide a voice of authority in the "New Profession".
Its founding members were:
- Nathan Barrett
- Beatrix Jones Farrand
- Daniel W. Langton
- Charles N. Lowrie
- Warren H. Manning
- Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
- John Charles Olmsted (the Society's first president)
- Samuel Parsons, Jr.
- George F. Pentecost, Jr.
- Ossian Cole Simonds
- Downing Vaux (son of Calvert Vaux)
External links
"American Society of Landscape Architects"