Celebrating Susan Crook: Inaugural “Industry Expert” Award Recipient
This past Thursday, we celebrated Susan Crook’s accomplishments at the Preservation Utah Community Stewardship Awards reception. Susan at the awards reception (image courtesy of Preservation Utah). This year marks a new chapter in Preservation Utah’s awards tradition with the introduction of the Industry Expert awards. These awards honor individuals who have made lasting, pioneering contributions […]
Opening Doors & Creating Opportunities: 2025 ASLA UT Conference
Shalae Larsen, ASLA, PLA joined Daniella Hirschfeld and Nancy Monteith for a panel discussion entitled: “Opening Doors and Creating Opportunities” on April 11th at the ASLA Utah conference. Together, they facilitated a conversation around the experience of being a woman in landscape architecture. In turn, this uncovered some insights into how we might create more […]
Nurturing Nature Connections: Intermountain Sustainability Summit
Last month, Shalae moderated a discussion titled Nurturing Nature Connections at the 2025 Intermountain Sustainability Summit. The conversation provided a hopeful perspective on actionable steps to increase ecological engagement. Moderated by Shalae Larsen of Io LandArch, the panel included Kat Andra from Salt Lake City Public Lands, Troy Callantine of the GOAL Foundation, Andrea Nelson […]
Designing for TV: A Crash Course with Extreme Makeover
We recently had the opportunity to volunteer, by providing Landscape Architectural services for two very deserving families, on the hit TV show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”! The episodes are 1002 and 1003 and we are looking forward to seeing them air in January 2020 on HGTV! In case you haven’t seen the show (seriously, who […]
Io & Athena: Inspiring Women
As a women-owned business, whose mission is to create sustainable, vibrant communities while mentoring the next generation of female landscape architects, Io Landscape Architecture is pleased to congratulate Shalae Larsen, Io Principal, on her nomination for the prestigious ATHENA Award . The award recognizes women who have achieved personal and professional success, and who are leaders […]
Back to Our Roots
We’re proud to unveil our new logo! The name Io stems from Greek mythology. Io was a demi-goddess represented by a white heifer. As a woman-founded design practice we deliberately chose the name based on its strong female archetype and also its agricultural symbolism. We have both personal ties to small-scale community agriculture and a […]
Lester Park Design Competition
The results of the Lester Park design competition have been announced. And the winner is… “Community Tapestry” by Io Design Collaborative’s own Shalae Larsen with team members Jake Alex McIntire and James Argo! The competition was held by the Utah Chapter of the AIA Young Architects’ Forum and Urban Design Committee. Many hours of volunteer […]
(re)PARK on Historic 25th
Io Landscape Architecture, in conjunction with Carbon Architects, hosted the first ever PARK(ing) Day in Ogden on September 20, 2013. Watch the brief video below, where Landscape Architecture Principal Shalae Larsen outlines the project’s concepts and goals. We extend special thanks to Johnson Media Corp. for putting this together. Shalae also appeared in another featured video by Only […]
