2010 ASLA Medal to Edward Daugherty, FASLA

Edward Daugherty, FASLA.

Edward Daugherty will receive the 2010 ASLA Medal, the highest honor for a landscape architect given by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Daugherty’s career spans over 50 years. He was born October 20, 1926 in Summerville, South Carolina and raised in Atlanta. He first studied architecture at Georgia Tech and then landscape architecture at the University of Georgia.

Following military service in World War II, he graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 1951.

In 1952 he earned a Fulbright scholarship and studied town planning in the United Kingdom.

Landscape architect Edward Daugherty contributed to the design of the Atlanta Botanical Garden grounds from 1981 until 1995. The garden, which offers displays, tours, and classes to the public, opened in the 1970s.

Back stateside, he starting a practice in Atlanta. His work ranges from small gardens and estates to schools, colleges, cultural institutions and environmentally sensitive large developments.

His career includes the preservation of the Marietta Square (1961) and the subsequent plan for downtown redevelopment in Atlanta (1970), the grounds of Georgia’s Governor’s Mansion (1967), the Atlanta Botanical Garden (1981-95), the Georgia Institute of Technology (1955-75) and collaboration with Thomas Church on the School for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia.

Other Atlanta projects by Daugherty’s include the garden at Egleston Hospital at Emory University All Saints Episcopal Church, Cator Woolford Gardens and the Atlanta Historical Society.

Daugherty has been a mentor to generations of landscape architects.
Daugherty and his wife, Martha, have four children. Throughout his career Daugherty has been active in civic affairs, including Trees Atlanta and All Saints Episcopal Church. He has been an ASLA member since 1954 and was made a Fellow in 1971. In 1972 he received an Honor Award in Landscape Architecture for the Historic Walk section of Marietta. In 1987 he received an Award of Excellence for Lifelong Contributions to Landscape Architecture in Atlanta from the Atlanta Urban Design Commission.