The ASLA recently announced the 2025 Honors Recipients, a list that includes 18 individuals, two organizations, and one firm. The Honors Recipients are unique in that they feature not only Practicing Landscape Architects, but also those individuals whose careers have led them to support the field of landscape architecture in some way.

Here is the list of the 2025 ASLA Honors Recipients:
The ALSA Medal - Michael Van Valkenburgh, FASLA, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (New York)
The ASLA Design Medal - Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA, Carbo Landscape Architecture (Louisiana)

 
The Community Service Award (Organizational) - Coastal Dynamics Design Lab at NC State University (North Carolina)
The Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal - Carlene LeBleu, FASLA, Auburn University (Alabama)
The LaGasse Medal (Landscape Architect Professional) - Mark Hough, FASLA, Duke University (North Carolina)
The LaGasse Medal (Non-Landscape Architect Professional) - Charles F. Sams III, Northwest Power and Conservation Council (Oregon)
The Landscape Architecture Firm Awards - SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC (California, Louisiana, New York)
The Medal of Excellence - Frederick Steiner, FASLA, University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania)
The Olmsted Medal - Chicago Region Trees Initiative, The Morton Arboretum (Illinois)
The ASLA Emerging Professional Medal - Maria Fernanda Gonzalez, ASLA, BASE Landscape Architecture (California)
The ASLA Outstanding Service Award - Christopher Hardy, PLA, Sasaki (Massachusetts); Lauren Patterson, PLA, PLAT Design Company (North Carolina); Adrian Smith, PLA, FASLA, City of New York Parks and Recreation (New York); Amy Syverson-Shaffer, Landscape Forms (Pennsylvania)
Honorary Membership - Staci Catron, Atlanta History Center (Georgia); Devin Colman, University of Vermon Historic Preservation Program (Vermont); Alan Harwood, AECOM (Washington, D.C.); Christopher Marcinkoski, University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania); Danielle Pieranunzi, Green Business Certification, Inc. / U.S. Green Building Council (Texas); Virginia Small, Journalist (Wisconsin)

For more information on the Honors Recipients or to see bios for each individual, go to:
https://www.asla.org/2025Honors.aspx