Profile: James E. Hiss, ASLA

Company/academic title: 2003-present Principal, The EDGE Group Landscape Planning, Landscape Architecture and Graphic Design.
1983-2003: Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Ohio State University
1980-1983: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Ohio State University
1976-1979: Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, The Ohio State University

Education: 1972: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, The Ohio State University
1975: Master of Architecture, The Ohio State University

Years in the profession: 28 years of Teaching, along with 25 years of Landscape Architecture Consulting while teaching I am a Registered Landscape Architect in State of Ohio

ASLA chapter: Ohio

Category: Knowledge

Most notable professional accomplishments:

• Co-author of Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence. Published by Prentice Hall, 1991
  Second Edition: Prentice Hall, 1998
  Third Edition: Prentice Hall, 2001
  Fourth Edition: Prentice Hall, 2004
  
  This book received a Merit Award from The Ohio Chapter of The American Society of Landscape Architects in 1992.
• I have received over twenty design awards over the past twenty years, most of which were private residential design projects.
• Authored Perspectives: An Effective Design Tool. Published by ASLA, 1985.
• Taught Landscape Architectural Graphic Workshops in nearly twenty states.
• I am currently under contract with Prentice Hall to produce Landscape Graphics P.A.C.: Process, Alternatives & Critiques, and the first in a series of three proposed landscape graphic books.
• Co-Founder of The EDGE Group with Eddie George, currently a running back with the Dallas Cowboys. Eddie received his BSLA Degree from The Ohio State University in 2001. In early 2003, we began working to create an LA company comprised of a team of diverse and dedicated landscape architecture professionals. The EDGE Group, comprised of 10 people, includes land planners, six registered landscape architects and a professional graphic designer.

Thoughts on being elected to Council of Fellows: I am grateful and honored to be in the company of other ASLA Fellows who I have admired and have been inspired by since deciding to be a landscape architect in 1979. I have been blessed over the years with the opportunity to make a difference as an educator. My 20 years of experience as a design consultant, coupled with my teaching, always motivated me to stay current. Thus, it made for a tremendously challenging and rewarding career. Being honored as a Fellow of ASLA provides me with additional encouragement and motivation to continue making a difference.