Firm: Sasaki, Watertown, Mass.

ASLA Election Year: 2017

Category: Works

Gina Ford, of Sasaki Associates, received her nomination for 'Works' from the Boston Society. Gina's dedication to landscape architecture at the planning and built-work stages has distinguished her throughout her career, as do her many high-profile riverfront landscape designs, from the Chicago Riverwalk to the Hanafan Rivers Edge Park and flood recovery planning in Cedar Rapids. She is a visible leader and advocate for the profession and has served on the Cultural Landscape Foundation Board of Directors since 2012. She led design studios in undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Northeastern University. She is a member of the editorial board for Architecture Boston magazine and the advisory board for the Northeastern University School of Architecture.