Robert Mattson, FASLA Assistant Superintendent for Planning Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Harvard University, MLA 1999 Minneapolis Committee on Urban Environment Award for redesign and reconstruction of Lakes Harriet and Calhoun Category: Administrative Work "To the future generation of Landscape Architects I would say that Landscape Architecture is a broad field of unlimited opportunity. This makes it possible to find work that matches interest and skills as well as offering financial rewards and personal fulfullment. One of my favorite projects, the Mississippi Riverfront, provided me with my favorite memory as a Landscape Architect. On July 4, 1998 while attending fireworks on the riverfront, I was one of a crowd of over 300,000 people gathered on parkland that fifteen years earlier had been a vacant railroad yard lined with industrial buildings."