Charles Fryling, ASLA
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, La.
Charles Fryling, of Louisiana State University, received his nomination, for Service, from the Louisiana Chapter. Through his significant and longstanding volunteer service, he has led multiple diverse efforts to preserve and create significant environmental landscapes in Louisiana and neighboring states. His generous pro bono devotion of time and knowledge as a landscape architect in turn have preserved the cultural heritage these landscapes embody. It is evident to all with whom he has worked that his efforts are informed and guided by the professional ethics and stewardship tenets of ASLA. He is a leading spokesman and expert in the protection of the Atchafalaya River, the nation’s largest river basin swamp and the principal distributary of the Mississippi River. He is unique among experts on the Atchafalaya due to his skillful application of the design principles and philosophies of landscape architecture.
Robert J. Golde, ASLA
Principal, Towers|Golde LLC
New Haven, Conn.
Robert Golde, of Towers|Golde, received his nomination, for Works, from the Connecticut Chapter. The bold clarity and elegant simplicity evident in his body of work belies his sophistication and technical achievement. His subtle understanding of the complex constraints and opportunities of each specific site, insight into the aspirations of each stakeholder and sensitivity to conflicting concerns consistently leads him to functional, budget-sensitive and contextually appropriate solutions; solutions that are also strikingly beautiful. His greatest works gracefully resolve complex programmatic needs on difficult, historically sensitive and often constricted sites. His advocacy for the profession and for the principles of sustainability and humanism extend far beyond his built work. Both nationally and locally, his service and outreach have advanced significantly the visibility and efficacy of the profession, garnered the respect of allied professionals, and encouraged the next generation of practitioners.
Lucy Lawliss, ASLA
National Park Service (Retired)
Bradenton, Fla.
Lucy Lawliss, of the National Park Service, received her nomination, for Leadership/Management, from the Virginia Chapter. As the first historical landscape architect hired by National Park Service in the southeast region in 1991, she rose to national leadership and managed some of our country’s most treasured landscapes. Her career has ranged from regional cultural landscape program manager, to superintendent of three national parks and as the national NPS program manager in Washington, D.C. She has also authored and edited award-winning publications and served on influential national boards, which includes her tenure as board chair for the National Association for Olmsted Parks. She has also participated as a consultant to protect and promote nationally and internationally significant landscapes. She has put to good use her ability to enlighten fellow professionals, politicians and the general public on the meaning, value and importance of landscape preservation.
Tom Leader, ASLA
Principal, Tom Leader Studio
Berkeley, Calif.
Tom Leader, of Tom Leader Studio, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. His career is distinguished by his ability to design and build artful parks, campuses and urban projects and apply those talents to communities that have the most to gain from them. Among his artistically original projects based on concepts of local culture are Shanghai Carpet, exhibited at the 2005 MoMA Groundswell Exhibit and Pool Pavilion Forest, which received a 2009 ASLA Honor Award. He is a respected advocate for the role of landscape architecture in the transformation of cities, such as with Birmingham’s Railroad Park, which changed the city’s entire civic dynamic; RiverFirst, along five miles of the Minneapolis riverfront; and Richmond Bayway,his firm’s current pro bono initiative in San Francisco.
E. Timothy Marshall, ASLA
ETM Associates LLC
Highland Park, N.J.
Timothy Marshall, of ETM Associates, received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the New Jersey Chapter. As a leader in public space management, he has provided strategies and guidance for many of the nation’s most respected landscape architecture firms and has an impressive list of significant national and international projects. His work is continually guided by the notion that parks and other public spaces that thrive are those that transcend the commonplace in all aspects of design quality, programming, facilities and maintenance. To him, design, implementation and ongoing management form a continuum of dynamic processes. He identifies and addresses potential problems through the creation and evaluation of alternative solutions to management goals and user needs. Beginning with his early work on Central Park, he is now an international authority and high-level practitioner of the art of park creation, restoration and operation.
Kim Mathews, ASLA
Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects
New York City
Kim Mathews, of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects, received her nomination, in Works, from the New York Chapter. Kim has consistently been bestowed with awards for both her planning and constructed work with institutional and public realm clients. Her design approach is solidly grounded in the fundamentals of thorough research, careful planning, ecosystem restoration and robust community engagement. Her substantial body of work demonstrates her commitment to the discovery and incorporation of a site’s cultural history. She promotes ecological function and develops solutions imbued with an authentic sense of each unique place. She works well with multi-year schedules and chronic funding challenges, and clients and communities value her dedication, enthusiasm, design ethic and ability to negotiate complex endeavors. Her most significant achievements are the result of long-lasting relationships with clients who appreciate her ability to address historic and cultural landscapes, especially in ecologically challenging settings. She is also a perennial advocate for the profession through ASLA.
Alan D. McKnight, ASLA
Columbus Recreation and Parks Department (Retired)
Columbus, Ohio
Alan McKnight, of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the Ohio Chapter. The first landscape architect to serve as director of the Recreation and Parks Department in Ohio’s largest city—through times of economic expansion and the Great Recession—McKnight led a staff of 350 in the creation of new parks and greenways and maintained a system of 240 parks, 15,000 acres of real estate, 29 community centers, seven swimming pools, scores of athletic facilities, 90 miles of multiuse trails and six golf courses. His partnership approach to leadership changed the face of his city and connects the burgeoning Central Ohio region. He commissions landscape architects as the prime design consultants on major urban multidisciplinary park projects. The highly regarded, 20-year transformation of the downtown Columbus riverfront is now complete, and the effort has been led entirely by landscape architects.
David Meyer, ASLA
Meyer + Silberberg
Berkeley, Calif.
David Meyer, of Meyer + Silberberg, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. Winner of the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, Meyer has distinguished himself through his rigorous approach to both design and execution. His goal has always been to create and build landscapes that transcend – that honor the inherent qualities of a site – and anchor themselves in the hearts and minds of the people who experience them. To Meyer’s mind, the most evocative, powerful spaces are characterized by purity, simplicity and restraint. They have visual order and make sense to the eye and the intellect. He credits his Iowa origins for this appreciation of strong, simple, sensual designs that employ nature’s palette judiciously. He has brought his signature integrity and rigor to projects ranging from a temporary installation at the American Academy in Rome to a 9,000-acre national park in China.
Gregory Miller, ASLA
Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller Ltd.
Albuquerque, N.M.
Gregory Miller, of Morrow Reardon Wilkinson Miller Ltd., received his nomination, in Service, from the New Mexico Chapter. At a time when similar professional organizations were suffering serious membership crises, he led a concerted effort to develop and enact an aggressive agenda that ensured the stability of ASLA. His strategy focused on programs that provide a wide range of valuable professional practice tools, help emerging professionals thrive, and maintain a diverse membership demographic. During his service as the New Mexico chapter trustee, on the Membership and Emerging Professionals Committees, and as vice president, he restructured the ASLA membership services programs, developed and instituted a decade-long program to bolster recruitment and retention, and dramatically enhanced the tangible benefits that membership affords practitioners, emerging professionals and educators. In short, his way to strengthen landscape architecture and its professional society was to strengthen every ASLA member.
