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ASLA Celebrates Women's History Month 2020

ASLA Female First Fellows of Color

• Karen Phillips, FASLA - First African American female ASLA Fellow
• Lolly Tai, FASLA - First Asian American Pacific Islander female ASLA Fellow

 ASLA Award Winners (Individuals) 

• Carol Franklin, 2019 ASLA Medal 
• Kimberly Douglas, 2019 Community Service Award - Individual
• Lee-Ann Milburn, FASLA, 2019 Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal 
• Linda Jewell, 2018 ASLA Medal

Recent Female-Led ASLA Award-Winning Projects 

2019

• Florence Griswold Museum | The Artists’ Trail: History, Ecology, and Sense of Place, Old Lyme, CT, STIMSON, 2019 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Analysis and Planning
• Lower Rainier Vista & Pedestrian Land Bridge, University of Washington, Seattle, GGN, 2019 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design
• McIntire Botanical Garden: Masterplan for Resiliency and Healing, Charlottesville, VA, Mikyoung Kim Design, 2019 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Analysis and Planning 
• The New Landscape Declaration: A Call to Action for the Twenty-first Century, Landscape Architecture Foundation, 2019 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Communications

2018

• Marnas: A Journey through Space, Time, and Ideas, Anne Whiston Spirn, 2018 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Communications
• Re-Envisioning Pulaski Park, Northampton, MA, STIMSON, 2018 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design

2017

• Fluid Territory: A Journey into Svalbard, Norway, Kathleen John-Alder, 2017 ASLA Professional Award of Excellence in Research
• Birmingham Residence, San Francisco, CA, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, 2017 ASLA Professional Award of Excellence in Residential Design  
• Texas Capitol Complex Master Plan, Austin, Page and Sasaki Associates, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Analysis and Planning  
• Central Seawall Project, Seattle, WA, James Corner Field Operations, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design
• Chicago Botanic Garden: The Regenstein Learning Campus, Chicago, IL, Mikyoung Kim Design and Jacobs/Ryan Associates, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design
• Windhover Contemplative Center, San Francisco, CA, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in General Design
• Rendering Los Angeles Green: The Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS), 606 Studio Cal Poly Pomona, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Research
• Telegraph Hill Residence, San Francisco, CA, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture, 2017 ASLA Professional Honor Award in Residential Design

 

Additional ASLA Resources on Women in Landscape Architecture  

The Women in Landscape Architecture Professional Practice Network

ASLA's Women in Landscape Architecture (WILA) PPN focuses on the experience and contributions of women in the profession. WILA works to create resources for women in the profession, provide mentorship opportunities, encourage discussion of work/life balance concerns, and establish a virtual home for members.

Women in Landscape Architecture posts from The Field:

• Being the Change
• Highlighting the Work of Women-Led Firms
• Mentorship Programs for Landscape Architects
• Women in Design: How to Find a Network of Other Women Designers 
• Women in Landscape Architecture (WILA) Annual Meeting Recap: The 2018 Women in Leadership Roundtable and WILA Walk

LAND

• Camille Applewhite, ASLA, and Diane Jones Allen, FASLA Advance African American Design Leadership at Harvard University’s 2019 Black in Design Conference - 10/15/19
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, FASLA, to Receive Inaugural Governor General’s Medal in Landscape Architecture - 8/9/2016
• IFLA Announces Winner of the 2018 Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award - 8/6/2016
• Irene Compadre, ASLA Transforms East End Campus of Washington University  - 7/9/19
• Olin, Neal Are Honored - 9/18/2017
• Orff Awarded MacArthur Genius Grant - 10/17/2017
• Ujijji Davis, ASLA, Introduces Girls to Landscape Architecture Through CareerGirls.org - 10/15/2018

THE DIRT

• Anne Whiston Spirn, Mikyoung Kim Win National Design Awards
• Design with Nurture: Women’s Leadership in Landscape Architecture
• Women Design Leaders Offer Candid Advice  
• Women’s Leadership in Siting Renewable Energy in Iceland

Interviews

• Christine Ten Eyck on Designing in the Age of Drought  
• Interview with Diana Balmori on Making Cities Work Like Nature 
• Marion Pressley on Designing with History  
• Mikyoung Kim on How to Design for Our Hybridized Lives

Landscape Architecture Magazine

• A Hand up, a Hand down: Set-asides for Women-owned Firms Are a Paradox. Some Can Move You Ahead. Others Are Just a Headache. by Fred A. Bernstein (February 2015)
• At the Helm: Women Take Charge of the Landscape Profession (May 2000)
• Constellation of Pieces by Marc Trieb (March 2002)
• Disneyland: Dream Built in One Year through Teamwork of Many Artists by Ruth P. Shellhorn, FASLA (April 1956)
• Drawn Together by Jane Margolies (March 2018)
• Lean Initiative by Jennifer Reut (August 2015)
• Start Your Engines by Kevan Williams (March 2017)
• What the Client Wants by Julia Silverstein Ries, FASLA (April 1961)
• Where the Water Was by Anne Raver (October 2018)
• Women (and Men) Need to Know by Bradford McKee (November 2014)

Books by and about ASLA Members

• Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape Architecture in the Early Twentieth Century by Thaïsa Way, FASLA (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
• Women in Landscape Architecture: Essays on History and Practice by Louise Mozingo, ASLA, and Linda Jewell, FASLA
• Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture by Sonja Dümpelmann and John Beardsley, eds. (Routledge, 2015)
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape by Susan Herrington (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015)
• Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them by Cynthia Zaitzevsky (W. W. Norton, 2009)
• Recycling Spaces: Creating Urban Evolution: The Landscape Design of Martha Schwartz Partners by Emily Waugh (San Rafael, CA: ORO Editions, 2011)
• Ruth Shellhorn by Kelly Comras, FASLA (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016)
• Shaping the American Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, and Stephanie S. Foell, eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009)
• Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of the American Landscape Design Project by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, and Scott Craver, eds. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018)

ASLA Presidents

• 2019-2020 — Wendy Miller, FASLA
• 2016-2017 — Vaughn B. Rinner, FASLA
• 2011-2012 — Susan M. Hatchell, FASLA
• 2008-2009 — Angela D. Dye, FASLA
• 2003-2004 — Susan L. B. Jacobson, FASLA
• 1999-2000 — Janice Cervelli, FASLA
• 1992-1993 — Debra L. Mitchell, FASLA
• 1990-1991 — Claire R. Bennett, FASLA
• 1987-1988 — Cheryl L. Barton, FASLA
• 1983-1984 — Darwina L. Neal, FASLA

The 2013 Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) Challenge: Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women

• 2013 HALS Challenge brief
• First Place: Gaiety Hollow (HALS OR-5), Salem, Oregon
  By Laurie Matthews, ASLA
• Second Place: The Arizona Inn (HALS AZ-9), Tucson, Arizona
  By Gina Chorover, Jennifer Levstik, and Helen Erickson, Associate ASLA, with University of Arizona Student Researchers: Jae Anderson, Crystal Cheek, and Ryan Sasso
• Third Place: Gypsy Camp for Girls (HALS AR-5), Siloam Springs, Arkansas
  By Benjamin Stinnett and Kimball Erdman, ASLA

From the ASLA Archives

The Professional Practice Library at ASLA houses more than 2,000 volumes on landscape architecture and related fields, and receives more than 130 journals and newsletters. In addition, it is home to the society’s archives. Most of the archival resources were placed in storage during the construction of the Center for Landscape Architecture but we hope to restore access to researchers in 2019.

• 1972 ASLA Survey of Women by Darwina Neal, FASLA
• The National Survey of Career Patterns Among Women in Landscape Architecture (September 1983) by Joan Iverson Nassauer, FASLA, and Karen Arnold
• Design Forum '81: Women Up Front by Alice C. Loh, ASLA, MRAIC