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June 9, 2010
Kyla Burson has been invited to participate in a sustainable design forum held by the city of Emeryville on June 9th. She will offer the designer perspective on a panel that will also include engineers, a representative from EBMUD, and one from the Regional Water Board. Forum participants will visit several sites to see completed low impact strategies, including AgeSong, an elderly care facility Miller Company provided landscape plans for. Agesong's sustainable features include: an extensive green roof, flow-through planters, high albedo pavings, and structural soils.
April 22, 2010
We received an Honor Award from ASLA's Northern California Chapter in their Design Category for our work on Pacific Cannery Lofts.
April, 2010
Jeffrey Miller's alumni profile was highlighted in Bard College's online newsletter, Annandale Online:
"Jeffrey Miller '73 came to the field of landscape architecture as an optimist and an activist who thought that he wanted to be a social worker. ... " [More]
"Jeffrey Miller '73 came to the field of landscape architecture as an optimist and an activist who thought that he wanted to be a social worker. ... " [More]
March 17, 2010
"Olive View Psychiatric Urgent Care Center groundbreaking event
On March 17, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky officially launched the construction of the new Psychiatric Urgent Care Center at the Olive View Medical Center with a groundbreaking event. The Center, anticipated to open in the summer of 2011, will feature artwork by Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller of San Francisco. Trachtenberg and Miller worked closely with the design-build team to integrate several art elements including stone pavers, a hand-painted frieze, a hanging sculpture and fence detailing." - LA County Arts Commission
On March 17, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich and Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky officially launched the construction of the new Psychiatric Urgent Care Center at the Olive View Medical Center with a groundbreaking event. The Center, anticipated to open in the summer of 2011, will feature artwork by Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller of San Francisco. Trachtenberg and Miller worked closely with the design-build team to integrate several art elements including stone pavers, a hand-painted frieze, a hanging sculpture and fence detailing." - LA County Arts Commission
March 10, 2010
Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor of LA's third district, wrote about our work on the Olive View Community Urgent Care Center in his blog. The entry is titled, "An artful setting for an urgent mission".
February 17, 2010 @ 1PM
UC Berkeley, 315A Wurster Hall
Jeffrey Miller speaks about Practicing Community-Based Landscape Architecture. This talk is part of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Colloquium, an interdisciplinary lecture and discussion series hosted by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.
UC Berkeley, 315A Wurster Hall
Jeffrey Miller speaks about Practicing Community-Based Landscape Architecture. This talk is part of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Colloquium, an interdisciplinary lecture and discussion series hosted by UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.
Winter 2010
Another public art collaboration between artist Amy Trachtenberg and Jeffrey Miller is coming to fruition. Construction begins this spring on the Olive View mental health facility in UCLA's medical center. Features of this project include hanging sculpture, a painted frieze, artist-designed stepping stones, and a vine entwined screen topped with a "sliver of light" - a multicolored, translucent mosaic of polycarbonate tiles. You can read more about this project at the LA County Arts Commission's website.
Winter 2010
Our work at Pacific Cannery Lofts was covered by the San Francisco Chronicle in the article Bringing the Indoors Outdoors.
Summer 2009
Kyla Burson, now a licensed Landscape Architect, has been promoted to Associate.
