The American Society of Landscape Architects Medal is awarded annually by the

American Society of Landscape Architects The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is a professional association for landscape architects in the United States. The ASLA's mission is to advance landscape architecture through advocacy, communication, education, and fellowship ...

(ASLA) to a landscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of the public and the environment.https://www.asla.org/individualaward.aspx?id=2454

History

The honor has been given each year since 1971. Only three winners were not ASLA fellows:

Sylvia Crowe Dame Sylvia Crowe, DBE (15 September 1901 – 30 June 1997) was an English landscape architect and garden designer.Hal Moggridge"Crowe, Dame Sylvia" (1901–1997) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; access ...

Geoffrey Jellicoe Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, landscape and garden historian, lecturer and author. His strongest interest was in landscape and garden ...

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Norman Newton Norman Thomas Newton (April 21, 1898 – September 12, 1992) was an American landscape architect and winner of the Prix de Rome. Early career Born in 1898 in Corry, Pennsylvania, Newton graduated from Cornell University in 1919, receiving his ...

List of winners

* 2021 - Darwina Neal * 2020 -

Anne Whiston Spirn Anne Whiston Spirn is an American landscape architect, photographer and author. Her work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful. Spirn is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape ...

* 2019 - Carol Franklin * 2018 - Linda Jewell * 2017 - Charles Birnbaum * 2016 - Kurt Culbertson * 2015 -

M. Paul Friedberg M. Paul Friedberg, FASLA, (born 1931) is an American landscape architect. Biography M. Paul Friedberg was born in New York City where he attended Cornell University. In 1954 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. He said that "after n ...

* 2014 - Richard Bell * 2013 - Warren T. Byrd Jr. * 2012 -

Cornelia Oberlander Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver. During her career she contribu ...

* 2011 -

Laurie Olin Laurie Olin (born 1938, Marshfield, Wisconsin) is an American landscape architect. He has worked on landscape design projects at diverse scales, from private residential gardens to public parks and corporate/museum campus plans. Early life Olin g ...

* 2010 - Edward L. Daugherty * 2009 - Joseph E. Brown * 2008 - Joe A. Porter * 2007 -

William B. Callaway William B. Callaway, FASLA (May 26, 1943 – November 25, 2014) was an American landscape architect with SWA Group, recognized for his ability to design landscapes that are timeless.Furio, Joann"A lifetime of good groundwork" ''San Francisco Chron ...

* 2006 - Cameron R. Man * 2005 -

Jane Silverstein Ries Jane Silverstein Ries (1909–2005), also known professionally as Julia Jane Silverstein, was an American landscape architect who was the first woman licensed in Colorado as a professional landscape architect. For her landscape work as well as her ...

* 2004 - Peter Walker * 2003 -

Richard Haag Richard Haag (October 23, 1923 – May 9, 2018) was an American landscape architect. He worked on Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington and on the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. Furthermore, he founded the Landscape Architecture Program ...

* 2002 - Morgan Evans * 2001 - Robert E. Marvin * 2000 - Carl D. Johnson * 1999 - Stuart O. Dawson * 1998 -

Carol R. Johnson Carol Roxane Johnson (September 6, 1929 – December 11, 2020) was a landscape architect and educator notable for being one of the first women in her field. She founded Carol R. Johnson Associates, a landscape architecture firm in Boston, and ...

* 1997 - Julius G. Fabos * 1996 -

John T. Lyle John T. Lyle (1934–1998) was a professor of landscape architecture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona); the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona and the Lyle plaza at the entrance to Adam ...

* 1995 - Ervin H. Zube * 1994 -

Edward Durell Stone, Jr. Edward Durell Stone Jr. (August 30, 1932 – July 10, 2009) was an American landscape architect. Biography The son of the architect, Edward Durell Stone, he graduated from The Hill School, and then went on to Yale, where he received a degree i ...

* 1993 -

Arthur Edwin Bye Arthur Edwin Bye (1919-2001) was an American landscape architect born in the Netherlands. Biography Bye was born on August 25, 1919, in Arnhem to a Dutch mother and American father, who were both art historians.Eliza PennypackerBiography of Arthur ...

* 1992 - Robert S. Reich * 1991 - Meade Palmer * 1990 - Raymond L. Freeman * 1989 -

Robert Royston Robert N. Royston (1918 – September 19, 2008) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States. His design work and university teaching in the years followi ...

* 1988 -

* 1987 -

Philip H. Lewis Jr. Philip Howard Lewis Jr. (September 4, 1925 – July 2, 2017) was an ''emeritus'' professor of landscape architecture who promoted the "environmental corridor" concept. He taught for more than 40 years at the University of Illinois (1953–1963) ...

* 1986 - William J. Johnson * 1985 -

Roberto Burle Marx Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is accredite ...

* 1984 -

Ian McHarg Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems. McHarg was one of the most influential persons in the environmental movement who brought environmental co ...

* 1983 - Theodore O. Osmundson * 1982 - Charles W. Eliot II * 1981 -

* 1980 - William G. Swain * 1979 -

* 1978 -

Lawrence Halprin Lawrence Halprin (July 1, 1916 – October 25, 2009) was an American landscape architect, designer and teacher. Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist a ...

* 1977 - Hubert Bond Owens * 1976 - Thomas Church * 1975 -

Garrett Eckbo Garrett Eckbo (November 28, 1910 – May 14, 2000) was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book '' Landscape for Living''. Youth He was born in Cooperstown, New York to Axel Eckbo, a businessman, and Theodora Munn Eckbo ...

* 1974 - Campbell E. Miller * 1973 -

John O. Simonds John Ormsbee Simonds was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 11, 1913. He was a visionary landscape architect, planner, educator, and environmentalist. Simonds was an original modernist landscape architect and one of the most influential an ...

* 1972 -

Conrad L. Wirth Conrad Louis Wirth (December 1, 1899 – July 25, 1993) was an American landscape architect, conservationist, and park service administrator. He served as the director of the National Park Service (NPS) between 1951 and 1964. Wirth was born in ...

* 1971 -

Hideo Sasaki Hideo Sasaki (25 November 1919 – 30 August 2000) was a Japanese American landscape architect. Biography Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on 25 November 1919. He grew up working on his family's California truck farm, and harvestin ...

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