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

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 Architecture Magazine.

Eligibility: 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 the 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:
    • accurate, evocative writing
    • placement of topic in a larger context
    • potential for effecting positive change
    • cumulative contributions to the magazine

Nomination Submittals: To suggest an individual for the committee to consider for the Bradford Williams Medal, email [email protected].


Questions?

Contact the Honors and Awards Manager. You can also call 202-216-2331.


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Previous Recipients

  • 2025   Bradford McKee
  • 2025   James Andrew Billingsley
  • 2024   Jane Margolies
  • 2024   Timothy A. Schuler
  • 2023   Jared Brey
  • 2023   Sonja Dümpelmann
  • 2022   Eric Klinenberg
  • 2022   Katharine Logan
  • 2021   Nikil Saval
  • 2021   Thaïsa Way
  • 2020   Craig L. Wilkins
  • 2020   Nicholas Pevzner
  • 2019   Ujijji Davis, ASLA
  • 2019   Anne Raver
  • 2018   Katarina Katsma, ASLA
  • 2018   Kriston Capps
  • 2017   Brian Barth
  • 2017   Raffi Khatchadourian
  • 2016   Philip Hotchkiss Walsh
  • 2016   Alana Semuels
  • 2015   Mimi Zeiger
  • 2015   Susanna Rustin
  • 2014   Jennifer Cooper
  • 2014   Michael Tortorello
  • 2013   Elizabeth S. Padjen
  • 2013   Timothy Egan
  • 2012   Christopher Hawthorne
  • 2012   David Heymann
  • 2011   Sarah Williams Goldhagen
  • 2011   Mark Hough, ASLA
  • 2010   Daniel Jost, ASLA
  • 2010   Linda McIntyre
  • 2009   Adam Arvidson, ASLA
  • 2009   Alex Ulam
  • 2008   Ethan Carr, FASLA
  • 2008   James Richards, ASLA
  • 2007   George Hazelrigg, ASLA
  • 2007   Linda Lee Jewell, FASLA
  • 2006   Grady Clay, Hon. ASLA
  • 2006   Randolph T. Hester Jr., FASLA
  • 2006   Susan Hines
  • 2005   Allen Freeman
  • 2005   James L. Sipes, ASLA
  • 2004   Clare Cooper Marcus, Hon. ASLA
  • 2004   Lolly Tai, FASLA
  • 2003   Marc Treib
  • 2003   Meg Calkins, ASLA
  • 2002   Brenda Brown
  • 2002   Kim Sorvig
  • 2001   Bill Thompson, FASLA
  • 2001   Kim O'Connell
  • 2001   Kenneth Helphand, FASLA
  • 1992   Bruce Ferguson, ASLA
  • 1991   Laurie Olin, FASLA
  • 1985   Warren T. Byrd Jr., ASLA and Susan S. Nelson, ASLA
  • 1985   Blanche Linden-Ward and Alan Ward
  • 1982   Helaine Kaplan Prentice, ASLA
  • 1979   E. Lynn Miller, ASLA