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“Ward, you realize soon enough has done for the designed American landscape what Ansel Adams did for the wilderness, using panoramic and deeply thoughtful images to draw out the soul of a place,”
Scene in Black and Black and White: The Soulful Landscapes of Alan Ward, Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, December 11, 1997
Alan has passions for both design and photography, which are combined in the award-winning 1998 book American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation. This illustrated presentation is an updated version of the book, a chronological overview of significant American landscape designs - beginning with Middleton Place, an eighteenth-century site in South Carolina, and concluding with projects from the early twentieth century. This will be followed by Part Two, which continues the chronicle through the Modern era, concluding with sites from the late twentieth century.
ALAN WARD
EDUCATION:
University of Cincinnati, BArch, Architecture, 1974
Harvard Graduate School of Design, MLA, Landscape Architecture, 1978
PRINCIPAL AT SASAKI SINCE 1985: SELECTED PLANNNG AND DESIGN PROJECTS
Dallas Arts District Master Plan, 1983
Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia, 1988-2025
Cleveland Gateway Sports District, Master Plan and Landscape Architecture, 1994-1990
East Grounds of the US Capitol and New Visitor Center Landscape, 2000-2008
Master Plan and Landscape Architecture Concept Plan, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2002
The Avenue, Mixed-Use Development, Washington, DC, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, 2006-2011
Rehabilitation of the Landscape at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool, 2008-2012
Landscape Design for US Embassies: The Hague, Helsinki, and Beirut, 2008-Current
Losner Park, Homestead, Florida, Landscape Architecture, 2019-2022
Gasworx Redevelopment, Tampa, Forida, Planning, Rezoning, and Landscape Architecture, Current
SELECTED AUTHORSHIP:
American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation, Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Reston Town Center: A Downtown for the 21st Century, Editor and Author of Chapter: Planning and Design History, 2006
American Residential Architecture: Photographs of the Evolution of Indiana Houses, 2018
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
“Built Landscapes: Gardens of the Northeast,” Traveling exhibition, opening at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1984
“Nature by Design: Spring Grove Photographs by Alan Ward,” Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1985
“Luminous Landscapes: Photographs by Alan Ward,” National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2016
SELECTED AWARDS:
Bradford Williams Medal for Best Article in Landscape Architecture Magazine, 1985
ASLA Honor Award in Communication for the book, American Designed Landscapes: A Photographic Interpretation, 1998
Visiting Artist in Landscape Architecture at the American Academy in Rome, Fall 2002 and Fall 2006
SELECTED TEACHING:
Instructor in Architecture, College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University, Taught design and photography 1974-76
Taught seminar “Photography, Design, and the Landscape,” Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design<<