Daniel J. Nadenicek, ASLA
University of Georgia
Athens, Ga. 

Daniel Nadenicek, of the University of Georgia, received his nomination, in Knowledge, from the Georgia Chapter. He has dedicated his life to expanding the knowledge base of the profession through research, teaching, administration and service, with a particular focus on landscape architecture history. His prolific writings include scores of peer-reviewed and invited papers globally and chapters in scholarly publications. He served on the UGA Press editorial board, helped develop a new landscape design book series and currently edits Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design and coedits Landscape Journal. His academic career encompasses more than 30 separate courses, 4,000 students, 25 master’s thesis committees and four Ph.D. committees. At Penn State, Clemson and Georgia, he worked with faculty to start six new programs; secured resources for students, faculty and the public; and engaged in more than 30 service projects. 

Harriet Pattison, ASLA
Harriet Pattison Landscape Architect (Retired)
Newtown Square, Pa. 

Harriet Pattison, received her nomination, in Works, from the Council of Fellows Executive Committee. She has been a principal collaborator with America’s most distinguished architects on projects now considered international icons that demonstrate the precise integration of landscape and 20th century Modernist architecture. This includes her insightful direction with Louis Kahn on both the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City. In these and her many other masterful works, including the Hershey Company International Headquarters, her designs evoke the complex, meticulous detail that seamlessly blends buildings and their landscapes. Her work puts on display her deft ability to handle complex sites and difficult design challenges. Likewise, working with Peter Bohlin on the Governor’s Mansion Garden in Harrisburg, Pa., she succeeded in the perfect combination of dignity and timeless grace. 

Timothy F. Peterson, ASLA
SWA Group
Houston 

Timothy Peterson, of SWA Group, received his nomination, in Works, from the Texas Chapter. His body of work has garnered dozens of design awards from ASLA, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects and has elevated the quality of life throughout the Houston region by providing critical open civic space, such as Buffalo Bayou Park and Hermann Park Reflection Pool. His strength lies in his ability to translate innovative design ideas and carry them through design documentation, while working alongside contractors to realize the design’s fullest built potential. His command of the full range of design, technical, cost, and project management issues for large-scale urban design and landscape projects is unmatched. Through his expertise in landscape architecture, construction and project realization, he guides designs from inception on with a focus on ensuring a beautifully crafted project that is buildable and on budget. 

Todd Richardson, ASLA
Richardson & Associates
Saco, Maine 

Todd Richardson, of Richardson & Associates, received his nomination, in Works, from the Boston Chapter. Recognized regionally and nationally, his work spans the spectrum of project types and geographic locations with a balance of private, nonprofit and public projects. He engages audiences as small as a single client or classroom of students to larger communities and institutions. His influence as a designer is wide and lasting. Through both the processes and outcomes of design, he produces exceptional work that continually explores how places connect us to each other, to ourselves and to the landscape. The essence of his work is about the far-reaching possibilities held in these connections. His urban and naturalistic built work is beautiful and well-grounded with an indigenous quality. Materials used in deceptively simple ways appear to have always belonged where they are, and with timeless quality. 

Elizabeth A. Sargent, ASLA
Liz Sargent HLA
Charlottesville, Va. 

Elizabeth Sargent, of Liz Sargent HLA, received her nomination, in Works, from the Virginia Chapter. With a background in botany, American history and landscape architecture, she has been a steward to America’s most important places, including nine of America's 22 World Heritage Sites, 33 National Historic Landmark properties and more than 50 National Parks, shaping places as diverse as Mount Vernon, the Everglades, the Salk Institute and Valley Forge. She is adept at capturing the essence of landscapes and important features in ways that make sense to interdisciplinary teams. The view she articulates is that landscapes are shaped over time by the intersection of natural systems and human intervention. Her ecological approach to cultural landscapes management and preservation engages all disciplines with which she works. Her scholarly research, eloquent writing and practical and creative approaches to historic landscapes are remarkable. 

Kenneth R. Seamon, ASLA
Seamon, Whiteside & Associates Inc.
Mount Pleasant, S.C. 

Kenneth Seamon, of Seamon, Whiteside & Associates Inc., received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the South Carolina Chapter. His firm's successes are testament to his leadership, integrity and quest for excellence without ego or pride and with only the best interests of the community and environment at heart. Within his firm he has developed a culture that combines landscape architecture and civil engineering, with landscape architecture taking the lead to develop a holistic approach to master planning, design and construction. He challenges his colleagues to serve the community. One result of this approach has been landscape architects who are aware of the issues of stormwater and infrastructure management and civil engineers who are sensitive to the environment and the overall sense of place. A strong supporter of ASLA, his firm has produced three chapter presidents, a chapter trustee and a national vice president. 

Scott Siefker, ASLA
Taylor Siefker Williams Design Group
Indianapolis 

Scott Siefker, of Taylor Siefker Williams Design Group, received his nomination, in Service, from the Indiana Chapter. In the face of the recent recession, he has been instrumental in standardizing administrative, functional and legal requirements for local chapters so that his fellow ASLA members continue to enjoy the Society's services and public outreach. The vitality of many ASLA programs today owe their sustained success to his organizational abilities, commitment to professionalism and attention to detail and follow-through. These well-organized and well-received contributions have elevated the visibility and prominence of the profession. His update of the ASLA Chapter Operations Workbook includes best practices for chapters of different sizes, business documentation and archiving, and guidelines for a variety of operational standards for awards programs and digital content development. His leadership also created what is now a month-long annual celebration of landscape architecture. 

Gary Strang, ASLA
GLS Landscape/Architecture
San Francisco 

Gary Strang, of GLS Landscape/Architecture, received his nomination, in Works, from the Northern California Chapter. He is one of the first of the new generation of landscape architects to focus on urban landscape commissions in the era of urban revitalization and densification. Licensed in both landscape architecture and architecture, his work brilliantly creates a seamless synthesis of architecture, infrastructure and beautifully conceived and executed places to live, work, play and worship. He embodies the true complexity of the practice of landscape architecture with a razor-sharp intellect that fuels his award-winning design, practice and publications. He has responded to the need to connect people with nature by demonstrating the potential for rewarding new landscape types on piers, rooftops, garages and in densely impacted urban conditions. Through study, teaching, writing and professional practice, his work has contributed to expanding the traditional definition of landscape architecture. 

Pat D. Taylor, ASLA
University of Texas
Arlington, Texas 

Pat Taylor, of the University of Texas, received his nomination, in Leadership/Management, from the Texas Chapter. As a landscape architecture educator and advocate of the profession for 46 years and leader within the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, he is a leading proponent for the profession to related disciplines and the public. His expertise encompasses landscape architecture, urban design theory, resource management master planning, park planning and design, qualitative research methodology and organizational communications. He was instrumental in the establishment of the International Studygroup for the Multiple Use of Land (ISOMUL), a global platform for scientific debate and publication. As the UT Arlington program director he has chaired 63 thesis committees in addition to his professorial and administrative duties and responsibilities. Six have received national awards. He leads by example as he continues to shape the next generation of landscape architects.