April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. See our following Chapter’s Instagram posts during this month!

ASLA helped Senator Martin Heinrich (NM) reintroduce the Living Schoolyards Act to reinvigorate outdoor learning spaces. This bill would provide planning and installation grants for landscape architects to reshape elementary and secondary schoolyards
Shut out to @anthony.fettes and @landscape_arch_unm students for being showcased at this month's @landarchmag, in the article "Listen and Unlearn." @nationalasla @unmsaap #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscapea
Greg Miller, Principal at @plandcollab, shares images of three #parks in Albuquerque, NM. These parks feature nature play, cultural identification, and sustainability. #WLAM2023 #WLAM #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscap
I know, I know. A curb cut and a mucky concrete box for today’s post? NOPE! It’s a sediment trap – the underrated workhorse of many green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) landscapes in the urban environment. That silt, debris, litter
 
View fullsize ASLA helped Senator Martin Heinrich (NM) reintroduce the Living Schoolyards Act to reinvigorate outdoor learning spaces. This bill would provide planning and installation grants for landscape architects to reshape elementary and secondary schoolyards
View fullsize Shut out to @anthony.fettes and @landscape_arch_unm students for being showcased at this month's @landarchmag, in the article "Listen and Unlearn." @nationalasla @unmsaap #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscapea
View fullsize Greg Miller, Principal at @plandcollab, shares images of three #parks in Albuquerque, NM. These parks feature nature play, cultural identification, and sustainability. #WLAM2023 #WLAM #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscap
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View fullsize I know, I know. A curb cut and a mucky concrete box for today’s post? NOPE! It’s a sediment trap – the underrated workhorse of many green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) landscapes in the urban environment. That silt, debris, litter
View fullsize Walter Hood is coming on Monday, 4/24, at 5:30 PM! Walter Hood is a landscape and public artist creating urban spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of current residents while also honoring communal histories. Hood melds architectural and
View fullsize Valle de Oro has won the top award for contemporary architecture from the 2023 Jeff Harnar Awards! Surroundings lead both the landscape visioning during the design-build RFP, and the subsequent design of the external environs for the new Valle de Oro
View fullsize As landscape architects at @dpsdesign , we thrive and enjoy interdisciplinary collaboration as much as getting down with fellow landscape architects to develop ideas together. #iamlandscapearchitect #designcollaboration #workingtogether #WLAM2023
View fullsize Southwestern golf courses are becoming hard to sustain in the era of climate change and prolonged drought. Landscape architects are leading the redesign of these spaces by repurposing these landscapes as public amenities and reintroducing habitat int
View fullsize Today is #residential landscape architecture day during our World Landscape Architecture Month 2023! #WLAM2023 Great designs by @mylandscapecoach ! #WLAM2023 #WLAM #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscapearchitect @nationa
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View fullsize Member-At-Large Jill Brown shares a beautiful front yard landscape in her neighborhood. Greek Germander, sulfur buckwheat, variegated yucca, and yellow hesperaloe. #WLAM2023 #WLAM #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture #iamalandscapearc
View fullsize A day in the life of our NM Chapter's President, Claudia Horn, and her Firm's team, planting trees! Parrotia persica / Persian Ironwood trees craned in and planted in a grove. The average tree size is 22’ in height x 11’ in diameter, we
View fullsize For Today's #WLAM2023 post, our own Courtney McKelvey shares her favorite project, Shining Stars Preschool for Rio Rancho Public Schools, New Mexico. The Shining Stars preschool campus offers young students with special needs a rich environment to p
View fullsize We’re happy to introduce another talented #landscapearchitecturestudent for Today’s #WLAM2023 theme! Meet Amir Reza Maroof. In his own words: “I’m a second-year Master of Landscape Architecture Student. I moved to the US in la
View fullsize April is World Landscape Architecture Month! Let's celebrate the role of landscape architecture in shaping healthy, resilient, and beautiful places for all, advocate for the profession, and inspire the next generation of landscape architects. Today w
View fullsize We were happy to provide feedback and to see portfolios with amazing graphics and renderings, and specially very talented and skilled students at our Portfolio Review 2023! Thanks to @landscape_arch_unmand NMASLA Student Chapter for your help and pa
View fullsize NMASLA Legislative Advocacy Day has started! Join us to support how Landscape Architects play a significant role in our communities! @nationalasla #StateAdvocacyDay #ASLAadvocates #nmasla #landscapearchitecture #thisislandscapearchitecture

NMASLA is a statewide professional organization open to landscape architects and their associates, including students in the graduate landscape architecture program at the University of New Mexico.

Our vision is to lead the design and stewardship of land and communities.

Our mission, Landscape architects lead the stewardship, planning, and design of our built and natural environments. NMASLA's mission is to advance landscape architecture in New Mexico through advocacy, communication, education, and fellowship.