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ASLA Honors
ASLA Honors are reserved for the profession’s most exceptional contributors—those whose leadership, creativity, and service have changed lives and landscapes. Chosen by the ASLA Board of Trustees, these distinctions reflect the profound gratitude of the landscape architecture community.
Submissions Due February 2, 2026
Nominations may be made by an ASLA professional member or an ASLA chapter. Nominations are to be kept confidential. Nominees should not be made aware of their nominations or asked to participate in the preparation of their nomination materials.
Our Medals & Awards
ASLA’s Medals & Awards represent the Society’s most enduring symbols of excellence. Bestowed upon leaders, educators, designers, advocates, and partners whose contributions have shaped the field, these honors celebrate the individuals and organizations whose impact will be felt for generations.
The ASLA Medal
The ASLA Medal is the highest honor the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) can bestow upon 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.
The ASLA Design Medal
The ASLA Design Medal recognizes an individual landscape architect who has produced a body of exceptional design work at a sustained level for a period of at least ten years.
The Community Service Awards
The Community Service Awards recognize an individual or group of landscape architects, firm, education program, or ASLA Chapters that have provided sustained, pro bono service to the community, demonstrating sound principles or values of landscape architecture.
The Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal
The Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal recognizes an individual who has made a sustained and significant contribution to landscape architecture education.
The LaGasse Medals
The LaGasse medals recognize notable contributions by individuals to the management and conservancy of natural resources and/or public landscapes.
The Landscape Architecture Firm Award
This award recognizes landscape architecture firms that have produced bodies of distinguished work influencing the professional practice of landscape architecture.
The Landscape Architecture Medal of Excellence
The Landscape Architecture Medal of Excellence recognizes significant contributions to landscape architecture policy, research, education, project planning, and design, or a combination of these items.
The Olmsted Medal
This medal was instituted in 1990 to recognize individuals, organizations, agencies, or programs outside the profession of landscape architecture for environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship.
ASLA Emerging Professional Medal
This medal recognizes an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and considerable contribution to the profession of landscape architecture, the prospective recipient’s community, and/or a firm or design team; early in one’s career.
ASLA Outstanding Service Awards
These awards are given annually to recognize volunteers who make notable contributions to or on behalf of the Society at the national level.
The President's Medal
Authorized by the Executive Committee in 1978, the ASLA President's Medal is awarded each year to an ASLA member for unselfish and devoted service to the ASLA at the national level over a period of not less than five years.
The Bradford Williams Medal
These medals recognize superior writing in Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) and excellence in writing about landscape architecture in other mainstream periodicals.
Honorary Membership
Honorary Membership recognizes persons other than landscape architects whose achievements of national or international significance or influence have provided notable service to the profession of landscape architecture.