H. Duane Blossom

Firm: Todd & Associates, Phoenix
Education: BSLA, Kansas State; MLA, Harvard GSD
ASLA Chapter: Arizona
Category: Service

Throughout a career of over 50 years, Duane Blossom has focused on placemaking for projects that make a significant contribution to communities. A pivotal midpoint in his career was as a principal for POD Inc., and working with Ron Izumita. As a practitioner and educator, his storyboard-workshop design approach is based on critical thinking and visual communication, a process that helps build consensus with clients and the public, and furthers the understanding of the importance of design. Blossom shares his love of drawing, landscape art and the vast potential of nature with students and young professionals through sketching and design workshops, passing on this legacy to future generations of landscape architects.

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Ronald Stoltz

Firm: University of Arizona, Tucson
Education: BS, environmental design; MLA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ASLA Chapter: Arizona
Category: Knowledge

Ronald Stoltz is a devoted and passionate teacher, mentor, scholar, leader and advocate for landscape architecture. He has enjoyed a long and distinguished academic career at the University of Arizona and the University of Guelph. He is one of the most accomplished and recognized people in landscape architecture education in the U.S. and Canada. He is the leading scholar of landscape architecture and constantly teaching and mentoring to students, developers, government officials and his colleagues.

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