Honors & Awards

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This medal is given in honor of Bradford Williams, who for many years served as the corresponding secretary of ASLA and presided over ASLA's national headquarters in Boston. He was a past editor, publisher, business manager and the driving force behind Landscape Architecture Quarterly (now Landscape ArchitectureMagazine).

Purpose: To recognize superior writing in Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) and excellence in writing about landscape architecture in other mainstream periodicals.

Who Is Eligible: Individual landscape architects or non-landscape architects who have written at least one article in Landscape Architecture Magazine during the course of a calendar year, and outside writers for other periodicals who have written an article on landscape architecture-related topics during the calendar year.

Number of Awards: Up to two medals are given annually.

Selection Process: The LAM Editorial Advisory Committee nominates articles and makes the final selections. The medal recipients are then notified by the president and invited to attend the Society's annual conference for presentation of the awards. The Bradford Williams Medal will be presented to the recipients in person at ASLA's conference. If the recipients cannot be present, the medals will be mailed to them.

Selection Criteria:

1. Two awards will be given each year--one for an article that appeared in LAM and one for an article on landscape architecture topics that appeared in an outside periodical.
2. The award will be based on articles that were written during the preceding calendar year.
3. Nominations are to be made by the LAM Editorial Advisory Committee. In making the nominations, the committee will consider the following:
   1. accurate, evocative writing
   2. placement of topic in a larger context
   3. potential for effecting positive change
   4. cumulative contributions to the magazine
    

Nomination Submittals: To suggest an individual for the committee to consider for the Bradford Williams Medal, email jreut@asla.org.