Firm: Sites Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico
ASLA Chapter: New Mexico
Category: Leadership/Management

George Radnovich takes landscape architecture to its pinnacle in the high desert of New Mexico and the Southwest. His approach to landscape design in these arid regions is widely emulated. His interest in water conservation and the use of environmentally appropriate landscaping drove him to build a nonprofit organization that has for over 27 years educated thousands of professionals about this design approach. His personal speaking engagements throughout the Southwest and northern Mexico have brought his message to hundreds more like-minded professionals. Besides these efforts toward sustainability and landscape resiliency, he also works with political leaders to create legislation to guide water conservation on sites and landscapes in a region that profoundly requires it.