Iowa Parks and Recreation Director Leads ASLA in 2010

Gary Scott, FASLA, the new ASLA president, earned his bachelors degree in landscape architecture in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) inducted Gary Scott, FASLA, as the 65th president of the member society during the 2009 Annual Meeting and EXPO in Chicago.

As director of parks and recreation since 1990 for the city of West Des Moines, Iowa, Mr. Scott leads a dynamic department in a rapidly growing suburban community.

Focusing on long-range planning, partnership building, advocacy, financing and public management, he plays an important role in creating parks and open spaces.

During his acceptance speech, Mr. Scott encouraged his peers to
"regenerate the role of the landscape architect as a source of cultural
transformation." He observed that landscape architects “create beautiful spaces in harmony with nature. We play a major role in developing the tools to implement a broader green agenda—green roofs, stormwater management, alternate transportation, porous alleys and ecosystem reclamation, to name a few," he said. "All of these efforts transform the way people view the city, and in doing so, transform our culture."

Other Officers
Jonathan Mueller, FASLA, is the new president-elect. He is a senior landscape architect with Landmark, a landscape architectural studio of Architects West in Coeur d`Alene, Idaho, that he helped establish in 1984.

Jonathan Mueller, FASLA, is the new president-elect.

• Liz Birkholz, ASLA, vice president of communications and a landscape architect in Seattle
• Stephanie Landregan, ASLA, vice president of government affairs and director for the landscape architecture program at the University of California Los Angeles Extension
• Richard Hawks, FASLA, vice president of education and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y.

Continuing with the second year of their terms are vice president of finance Pamela Blough, ASLA; vice president of membership Brian Dougherty, FASLA; and vice president of professional practice Gary Brown, FASLA.