Richard Haag (b. 10/23/1923 Louisville KY; BLA UCal at Berkeley 1950, MLA Harvard University GSD 1952, Fulbright Fellowship to Japan 1954-55, Residency at the American Academy in Rome 1998), founded the UW Department of Landscape Architecture (1963) and has twice received the ASLA Presidents Award for Design Excellence, for Gas Works Park (Seattle) and The Sequence of Gardens at Bloedel Reserve (Bainbridge Island) – the only person so honored by his profession. In 2003, his colleagues presented him with the ASLA Medal – the highest award given by the national American Society of Landscape Architects, recognizing an individual "whose lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of the public and the environment."

Universally recognized as one of the leading landscape architects of his time, Rich Haag has exhibited a genuine kinship with the aims of The American Institute of Architects and the thousands of design professionals who draw inspiration from his work and strength from his widely, wisely expressed convictions. AIA Seattle welcomed this distinguished "humanitarian of design" as an Honorary Member in 1981, recognizing the number and breadth of his contributions to the local professional culture. In the years since, his sustained and extended influence has had a genuinely global effect.

For more than five decades, he has toiled side by side with architects in the rich but rocky field of design leadership, advancing the design professions' highest ideals as colleague, collaborator and friend, teacher and critic, civic activist and design advocate. Architecture and all the design professions have realized enormous benefit from his individual and cumulative achievements - in the brilliant projects he's created and collaborated on in and around his Seattle home and throughout the world; in the Diaspora of literally thousands of students and disciples who have passed through the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where in 1963 he founded the influential Department of Landscape Architecture, or who have heard or read his scholarly discourse; and in his legacy of commitment to the potential for design to serve society beautifully, intelligently, and democratically.

In 1998, Harvard Design Books published Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. Now a UW Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture honored by his colleagues there with the 2003 establishment of the Richard Haag Scholarship in Landscape Architecture, Haag continues to teach, lectures internationally, and practices as Principal of Richard Haag & Associates in Seattle. In 1999, the AIA recognized the national significance of his professional contributions by welcoming him as an AIA Honorary Member, on his nomination by AIA Seattle.

We urge Fellows/Honors Council attendees to bring young architects and colleagues as their guests, to share the inspiration and experience of this presentation.

Cordially,

Donald Carlson FAIA
President, Fellows/Honors Council

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