People

Announcements

Jessie Fink, ASLA, and Elizabeth Wittkopf Iszler, ASLA, have been made new associates of JJR, a landscape architecture, planning, urban design, civil engineering, and environmental science with offices in Ann Arbor, MI; Chicago, IL; and Madison, WI. Fink is a registered Landscape Architect in the Madison Studio. She has a Master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University. Fink is the Project Manager for the Sister Bay Waterfront District Master Plan in Door County, Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Education Building. Iszler is a registered Landscape Architect in the Ann Arbor Studio. She has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University. Iszler’s primary responsibility is Project Manager on Midtown Loop, Tri-Centennial State Park and Harbor, Lakeview Bluffs, The Sand Island Club, Brush Mall Greenway and Waterford Township PDA Vision Plan projects in Michigan and Ohio.

W. Jeffrey Funovits, ASLA, has been elected to Burt Hill’s board of directors. In addition to director, Funovits is a managing principal in the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Funovits’ commitment to community planning is evident through his extracurricular involvement in the design community. He is the former chairman of his local planning board and a leading member of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Urban Land Institute. He received his Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Pennsylvania State University. Burt Hill is an architecture and engineering firm with offices in Philadelphia, Butler, State College, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; Miami, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio; Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE; and Ahmedabad, India.

David Madison, ASLA, has joined Wenk Associates, Inc, of Denver, Colorado. Madison brings over 17 years of professional experience as a landscape architect, project manager and professional consultant.  Prior to joining Wenk Associates, David was the Director of Landscape Architecture for Shapins Associates, Inc. where he led and managed landscape architecture projects in Colorado, Wyoming and California.  Prior to that, David worked as a private consultant to Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates of Cambridge and Peter Walker and Partners of San Francisco among others.  He also co-founded the firm, Land Ethic, Inc. in Belfast, Maine working with public and private clients on multiple mixed-use and resort projects.  David will be integral to the design and construction of several Wenk Associates’ projects, beginning with Belvoir Ranch, an 18,000-acre land-use planning and resource management plan outside of Cheyenne, WY.  Mr. Madison is a registered landscape architect.

In Appreciation

Edward L. Pryce, FASLA, passed away August 15, 2007 at the age of 93. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a child. In 1934, he enrolled in Tuskegee Institute (University) where he studied Agriculture and assisted Dr. George W. Carver. After earning the Bachelor of Science degree, he returned to California where he served as park supervisor and developed an appreciation for the field of landscape architecture. In 1948, Edward returned to Tuskegee Institute where he served as head of the Department of Ornamental Horticulture. While in charge of campus maintenance and construction, he earned a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture. From 1955 to 1969, Edward was Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds at Tuskegee, and from 1969 to 1977, he taught in the Department of Architecture.

Facing the challenge of inadequate funding for the maintenance of the historic buildings on Tuskegee’s campus, in 1972, he wrote the proposal that established Tuskegee Institute as a National Historic Site in 1974. His landscape architecture projects reached beyond the campus of Tuskegee Institute. He served as campus planner for colleges in Liberia and Sierra Leone, West Africa and produced master plans for several Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Landscape designs adorn several facilities in Atlanta, Georgia. As a result of his organizational proposal for a Department of Landscape Architecture at Auburn University, Pryce was elected Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects—the first African-American to be so honored, as well as the first from the State of Alabama.

Upon his retirement, Edward devoted much of his time to his Afro-centric paintings and wood sculptures. His works are found on the campus of Tuskegee University, notably in the lower-level of the Chapel and in the Library. Two 45-foot murals depicting African-American history hang in the Eagle’s Nest of the local Booker T. Washington High School.