How can resilient design for the future address reparative actions for past and current generations? This singular, critically important question captures the ambitious spirit and multidimensional challenge at the heart of Xtreme LA Morro Bay.

Propose ideas and solutions surrounding the Bison Bridge project – the prospective transformation of the I-80 bridge between LeClaire, Iowa and Rapids City, Illinois into a wildlife crossing, outdoor recreation destination, and potential new national park.

The focus of the fast-paced charrette was the design of resilient landscape solutions for a culturally, architecturally and economically significant part of Miami Beach. While a much smaller area of interest was considered in early planning, the project was expanded to encompass a site bounded by the intersection of Washington Avenue, a central north/south artery between the ocean and the city, and Lincoln Road, an east/west connector between beach and bay, and extending two full city blocks down Lincoln to the beachfront.

On November 6 - 8 2017, Landscape Forms, North America's leading designer and manufacturer of high design site furniture and advanced LED lighting, sponsored its ninth Xtreme LA event at Washington University in St. Louis.

Landscape Forms' eighth annual Xtreme LA (Extreme Landscape Architecture) event took place on October 4-6, 2016 in Blacksburg, VA.

In October 2015, a two-day charrette sponsored by Landscape Forms and dubbed Xtreme LA (Extreme Landscape Architecture), brought sixteen young landscape architects and two award-winning leaders in the field to Saugatuck/Douglas in Western Michigan. 

On October 7, 2014 a group of twenty young design professionals, identified by their firms as potential leaders of their professions, arrived in Manhattan, Kansas for two days of intense charrette focused on envisioning a new urban landscape for the fast-growing city. 

On April 3, 2013, thirteen landscape architects selected by their firms as among the best and brightest gathered on the University of California Berkeley campus where they were joined by fifteen students from the UC Berkeley graduate program in landscape architecture for a two-day charrette calculated to engage, challenge and inspire future leaders of the profession.

The sleeve rolling took place in Tucson. The occasion was Xtreme LA 2011, the fourth annual landscape architecture charrette sponsored by Landscape Forms and the Landscape Architecture Foundation.

This XtremeLA event, co-sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Foundation and site furniture manufacturer, Landscape Forms, provided an intense creative experience focused on a critical landscape planning and design challenge.