ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Thirty-two Professional Award Winners were honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) at a ceremony Thursday, September 18 at the Georgetown University Intercultural Center in Washington, D.C.

Congressman John F. Seiberling (D-Ohio) was also honored by the Landscape Architecture Foundation which presented him with the LaGasse Medal, its highest honor, for his outstanding leadership in encouraging sound resource and land management policies and practices.

The top Professional Award Winner, Richard Haag Associates of Seattle, received the Presidential Award of Excellence for “A Series of Gardens” at a privately owned nature preserve on Baibridge Island, in Puget Sound, Washington.

Three Honor Awards

To The SWA Group of Sausalito, California for the Refugio Valley Community Park in Hercules, California. The City asked for a “village green,” a recreation area with visual impact, in the Valley, a eucalyptus-lined bowl that stretches from the hills overlooking Hercules to the San Pablo Bay.

To the Caplinger Group of New Orleans for the New Orleans Historic Warehouse District Study, Technical Report. The study examined the area that was to be the site of the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and served as a turning point in thinking about development of the historic district. The document became an advisory manual for city officials and developers.

To Roger Wells Inc. of Haddonfield, N.J. for his Chester County, Pennsylvania Open Space and Recreation Study. The study helped the picturesque, largely rural area protect its open space heritage while expanding its recreational’ resources.

Merit Award winners

William Pressley and Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA for “Marketplace Center,” Boston, MA

Pollack Walker Williams Partnership/Pollack Design Associates, Ann Arbor, M I for ” Independence Lake Park,” Webster Township, Ml

The SWA Group, Houston, TX for “Antioch Park” in Houston

John Tillman Lyle, Sierra Madre, CA for “Lyle Garden” in Sierra Madre

Daniel D. Stewart & Associates,

New York City for “A Seaside Residence,” Long Island, NY

Peter B. Burner, Ft. Myers, FL for “Safety Harbor Club,” Captiva Island, FL

Johnson, Johnson & Roy/Inc., Ann Arbor, Ml for “Kresge Foundation Headquarters,” Troy, Ml

Emerson, Ribes and Associates, Baton Rouge, LA for ” Magnolia Mound Plantation?EUR??,,????'??+Site Development Plan,” Baton Rouge

Land Studio, San Diego, CA for “City Forest” and for “Visual Productions Incorporated,” both in San Diego.

Robert K. Murase, Portland, OR for “Celilo Court,” Portland

Edward D. Stone, Jr. and Associates, Fort Lauderdale, FL for “PepsiCo World Headquarters,” Purchase, NY

Ellerbe Associates, Inc., Rochester, MN for “Rochester River Gardens/Arboretum,” Rochester

James Martin Associates, Inc., Vernon Hills, IL for “Landscape Management System”

Chris Mulder & Assoc., Inc., Menlo Park, South Africa for “Lower Umgeni River Study,” Durban, South Africa

Jongejan/Gerrard/McNeal Inc., P.S., Bellevue, WA for “Interstate 90 Corridor,” Mercer Island, WA

John Warner Associates, Portland, OR for “Washington Park Zoo Master Plan in Portland

LandDesign, Inc., in Charlotte, NC for “Elizabeth Urban Design Plan and Transportation Study,” Charlotte

Allen Stoval, Athens, GA for “Scull Shoals?EUR??,,????'??+A Feasibility Study,” Oconee National Forest, Greene County, GA

Design Studios West, Inc., Denver, CO for Boulder Reservoir-Development Plan,” Boulder

Winning research and communications projects include:

Victor Regnier, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, ” Behavioral and Environmental Aspects of Outdoor Space Use in Housing for the Elderly”

Randolph T. Hester, Jr., Berkeley, CA for “Neighborhood Space”

Ray Green, Jan Schapper, Ian Bishop, Michael M. McCarthy, University of Melbourne, Australia for “Design for Change: Community Renewal After the 1983 Bushfires”

John Tillman Lyle, Sierra Madre, ~ CA for “Design for Human Ecosystems”

Matarazzo Design, Inc., Concord, NH for “Cluster Housing Publication.”

Diane Kostial McGuire, Diana Balmori, Eleanor M. McPeck for “Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes”

Michael R. Van Vaikenburgh, Cambridge, MA for “Transforming the American Garden”

Mark Francis, Lisa Cashdan, Lynn Paxson, University of California, Davis, “Community Open Spaces”

Stuart O. Dawson of Sasaki Associates in Watertown, MA chaired the Professional Awards program. Members of the three juries were: Anne Whiston Spirn, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Peter E. Walker, San Francisco, CA; Peter G. Rolland of Rye, NY; Tito Patri of The Planning Collaborative, San Francisco.

J. Edward Pinckney of Hilton Head, SC; Philip H. Lewis, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Madison; Adele Chatfield-Taylor, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.; David Dillon, Dallas Morning News, Dallas.

Charles W. Harris, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Linda M. Jewell, Raleigh, NC; Robert B. Riley, University of Illinois, Urbana.