Xtreme LA Trains Tomorrow’s Design Leaders on Environmental Stewardship

By Jaxson Stone, Metropolis

Published July 5, 2024

Featuring Maura Rockcastle, PLA, ASLA

“How can resilient for the future address reparative actions for past and current generations?” This was the question that outdoor site furnishings manufacturer Landscape Forms and the Landscape Architecture Foundation posed to the participants in the tenth iteration of Xtreme LA, “A Creative Design Challenge for the Design Leaders of Tomorrow.”

Held at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California, from January 30 through February 1, in collaboration with the university’s landscape architecture department, the intense three-day design charette deeply considered the past and future of nearby Morro Bay and the sacred Indigenous site of Morro Rock, an ancient volcanic plug that guards the harbor…

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