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2021 MDASLA Awards
The intent of the Annual Maryland ASLA Awards Program is to encourage professional excellence in Maryland and the Washington Metropolitan Area by recognizing significant completed as well as un‐built Landscape Architectural projects. The objective is to bring public attention to the outstanding services of landscape architects by honoring them with professional awards for projects that demonstrate a superior quality of design and execution.
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Lifetime Achievement Award
This award was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of landscape architecture by our members. They can be for lifetime achievement, service, knowledge, research or any other related subject the MDASLA executive committee chooses to honor.
Bob Gorman
Gorman Design
Mid-Career Award
To recognize and celebrate an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary passion and commitment to the profession of landscape architecture, the community, and/or a firm in the State of Maryland; in the middle stage of their professional life.
Colleen Vacelete
Intreegue Design
Emerging Professional Award
To recognize and celebrate an individual who has demonstrated extraordinary passion and commitment to the profession of landscape architecture, the community, and/or a firm in the State of Maryland; in the early stage of their professional life.
Michael Pullano
Design Collective
Spencer Ellis Award
The Maryland Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects established the Spencer Ellis Award to honor the service of Spencer P. Ellis to the environment. His career in landscape architecture included work at the Dept. of Natural Resources, Md. State Forests and Parks, the Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, and, important to today's occasion, Program Open Space. The award is given annually to a program or organization that has made a significant contribution to the preservation and conservation of the local environment in Maryland.
William Baker
President of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
General Design
Recognizes site specific works of landscape architecture or urban design.
Professional entries in this category must be built.
Presidential Award
Bliss Meadows
EnviroCollab
Team Members: Heidi Thomas, Cherisse Otis, Amy Sametshaw
Honor Award
Calvin & Tina Tyler Hall
FLOURA TEETER
PROJECT TEAM:
Alice Storm Jones
Zach Baier
Matt Ellingson
The Collection at Chevy Chase
MAHAN RYKIEL ASSOCIATES
PROJECT TEAM:
Scott Rykiel
Matt Renauld
Travis D'Onofrio
Rudraksha Jhaveri
Terry Burns
Merit Award
Dawson Terrace Park
AMT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
PROJECT TEAM:
GeoConcepts Engineering, Inc.
James Posey Associates
Silver Spring Metro Plaza
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE BUREAU
PROJECT TEAM:
Jonathan Fitch
Xibei Song
Michael W. Smith
Design (Unbuilt)
Merit Award
Bennett's Village Playground
MAHAN RYKIEL ASSOCIATES
PROJECT TEAM:
Jingpeng Gu
Elaine Ku
Steve Kelly
Burt Huang
Lois Nguyen
Greening Americas Communities
FLOURA TEETER LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTS
PROJECT TEAM:
Zolna Russell
Megan Maffeo
Jonathan Gemmell
Matt Ellingson
Sara Goins
James Farm Ecological Preserve
OASIS DESIGN GROUP &
KIMLEY-HORN TEAM
PROJECT TEAM:
Biohabitats
Century Engineering
Architect David Quillin
Analysis & Planning
Recognizes the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide, and evaluate landscape architecture design. Entries in this category are not required to be built or implemented
Medicine For Disruption
Jonathan Ceci Landscape Architects
PROJECT TEAM:
Jonathan Ceci
Matt Johnson
Julie Goodman-Khasani
Shelly Johnson
Saba Hamidi
Merit Award
Traveling Award of Innovative Excellence
Ellicott City Watershed Masterplan
MAHAN RYKIEL ASSOCIATES
PROJECT TEAM:
Tom McGilloway
Megan Oliver
Jeff Dube
Andy Kalback
Residential (Multi-Family)
Arrowwood
DESIGN COLLECTIVE
PROJECT TEAM:
Brian Reetz
Anna Dennis
Dean Brown
Emilie Carter
Merit Award
Residential (Single-Family)
Apotheosis Farms
SOUTH FORK STUDIOS
PROJECT TEAM:
D. Miles Barnard
Honor Award
Merit Award
Running Brook
CAMPION HRUBY LANDSCAPE
PROJECT TEAM:
Bob Hruby
Lindsey Tabor
Institutional Design
USG Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Building
MAHAN RYKIEL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Honor Award
DESIGN TEAM:
Mahan Rykiel Associates
Cooper Carry
Lake|Flato Team Members:
James Sink
Heidi Thomas
Terry Burns
Communications
Merit Award
Mid-Atlantic Native Meadows
MAHAN RYKIEL ASSOCIATES &
XERCES SOCIETY
DESIGN TEAM:
Terry Burns
Alice Sturm
Isaac Hametz
Research
Confluence Community Park
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
RESEARCHERS:
Naomi Alena Sachs, Byoung-Suk Kweon, and Jack Sullivan
TEAM MEMBERS:
Alison Kimber Jones
Merit Award
Student Scholarship + Fellowship Awards
Dayanara Padilla
University of Maryland
Maura Roth Gormley
Morgan State
Emma Podietz
University of Maryland