Samuel Coplon

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Firm: Coplon Associates, Inc., Bar Harbor, Maine
Education: BS, engineering, Tufts University; MLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design
ASLA Chapter: Boston Society
Category: Works

Samuel Coplon's community plans and contributions to land protection have lent considerable visibility to landscape architecture in his region. Media coverage has popularized local ordinances that foster cluster development, affordable housing and resource protection. His reinvigoration and reinterpretation of the Gilded Age tradition of coastal Maine has had a national and regional influence on large-scale, affordable land conservation. He has the range to craft intimate residential landscapes and public, institutional, and historically significant projects. His ability to transform prosaic land into extraordinary landscape designs has made his firm essential in the eyes of clients nationwide.

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