Profile: Mary Margaret Joslin Jones, FASLA

Company/academic title: Hargreaves Associates, President / Sr. Principal

Education: Texas A&M University College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Magna Cum Laude, 1979

University of Texas, Austin, 1974-75

Years in the profession: 27

ASLA chapter: Northern California

Category: Works of Landscape Architecture

Most notable professional accomplishments:

Mary Margaret is President of Hargreaves Associates and one of its two Senior Principals. In these roles she oversees the firm's three offices in San Francisco, Cambridge and New York City and also directly leads a large number of active projects. Mary Margaret has been the Senior Principal-In-Charge on a wide range of the firm?EUR??,,????'???s award-winning projects including the Guadalupe River Park, Crissy Field, the Master Plan for the University of Cincinnati and the Master Concept Design for the Public Domain for the Sydney Olympics. These projects have been published, exhibited, and awarded nationally and internationally; they not only have served to highlight the growth of the firm?EUR??,,????'???s work, but have defined an evolution in the practice, scope, and achievements of the field of landscape architecture as a whole.

Mary Margaret has served on numerous juries, lectures widely, and in addition to her office and project leadership is committed to engaging the wider profession of landscape architecture on numerous fronts through related trade and educational activities. She is a Fellow and member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome, has been a Visiting Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Design School, and is on the National Advisory Council for the Mayors' Institute on City Design as well as the GSA Design Excellence Peer Review group.

Thoughts on being elected to Council of Fellows: I am pleased and honored to be recognized by the ASLA for my work in the practice of landscape architecture. As a Fellow I take seriously my role as a leader in the profession and as an ambassador for landscape architecture. I am committed to the continued pursuit of design excellence as well as my involvement in the broader roles of the profession in education, public policy and related issues. As a woman I also recognize the significance of being a leader and role model for the future of a diverse profession. Most of all it is a pleasure to take this moment to celebrate a career that I love.