Profile: Anne Whiston Spirn, ASLA

Company/academic title: Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education: A.B. 1969 cum laude Radcliffe College, Harvard University
M.L.A. 1973 University of Pennsylvania

Years in the profession: 24

ASLA chapter: Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Category: Knowledge

Most notable professional accomplishments:

• 2001 International Cosmos Prize for ?EUR??,,????'??contributions to the harmonious co-existence of nature and humankind.?EUR??,,????'?? The award committee cited my work as integrating nature and city, science and art, the ecological and the cultural. I am the only designer, planner, or artist to receive this award and the first woman.
• 2002 National Design Award Finalist.
  The West Philadelphia Landscape Project (1987 to the present), which has been featured in newspaper articles, professional journals, national radio and television broadcasts, and international conferences and symposia. WPLP won this year's Community Service Award from ASLA
• 1998, the publication of my book, The Language of Landscape
• 1984 My book, The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design won the President's Award of Excellence, ASLA

Thoughts on being elected to Council of Fellows: It is especially gratifying to be honored among this year's new fellows, a great group that includes many friends and many former students.