Boston Society of Architects to Award Two LAs

The Boston Society of Architects, the largest chapter of the American Institute of Architects, will award two LAs, Marion Pressley FASLA, and Martha Schwartz, and one architect, Ann Beha, FAIA, the 2004 Women in Design Awards of Excellence November 16, 2004 during the fifth annual Women in Design Conference in Boston.

Marion Pressley, FASLA, is a principal of Pressley Associates, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., with expertise in historic master planning and restoration, including restoration of four of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace Parks.

Martha Schwartz has 25 years of experience as a landscape architect and artist and is the principal of Martha Schwartz, Inc., in Cambridge. She is an adjunct processor of landscape architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and her interest is in new designs for the urban landscape.