ASLA Selects Two Texas Chapter Members to the Council of Fellows

ASLA has selected 41 members for induction into its distinguished Council of Fellows. Following the investiture ceremony, the new Fellows may use the suffix “FASLA” to denote this high honor, which is among the highest honors ASLA can bestow. Fellowship recognizes the significant contributions these individuals have made to the profession and the public through their works, leadership and management, knowledge, and service.

Congratulations to James Richards and Earl Broussard, the newest Fellows from the Texas Chapter.

James Richards was nominated in the Leadership/Management Category by the Texas Chapter. His creative range spans professional and community contributions, firm and interdisciplinary leadership, award-winning work, writing and drawing for publication, university-level teaching, and public outreach. He has influenced scores of young professionals and continues to lecture and jury design, drawing, and creativity workshops. In publication he has championed the merging of rapid freehand sketching skills with digital design processes. The current freehand renaissance is a mark of his success in these endeavors. Richards has raised the public profile of the profession, shown landscape architects as design leaders, and inspired students and fellow professionals internationally. He earned his bachelor of landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and master of landscape architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Earl Broussard was nominated in the Leadership/Management Category by the Texas Chapter. He is a teacher, mentor, advocate, elected official, and founder of one of the largest landscape architecture firms in the Southwest. The firm's landscapes encompass the iconic entirety of the Texas cultural landscape, including the state capitol, the governor's mansion, and the Alamo. As a six-term city councilman, he is the first landscape architect in Texas to hold an elected public office. During that time, he established landscape preservation codes for West Lake Hills and advanced public appreciation of the value of landscape architecture. Broussard co-led the campaign to bring Texas a landscape architecture practice act. Broussard earned his bachelor of landscape architecture from Louisiana State University and his master of landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

The 2010 ASLA Council of Fellows investiture reception and dinner will be held on Sunday evening, September 12, at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C., during the ASLA 2010 Annual Meeting & EXPO [http://www.asla.org/2010meeting/]. For ticket information, please visit the Annual Meeting & EXPO website.”