2023 Professional Awards
of the Potomac Chapter ASLA
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William
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The purpose of the award is to recognize local landscape architects whose lifetime achievements and contributions to the profession have a unique and lasting impact on the profession and/or our Chapter.
President Carla Ellern, ASLA presented this year’s award to Dennis Carmichael, FASLA during the Chapter’s annual Awards Gala on May 11 at River Farm in Alexandria, VA.
2023 Lifetime Achievement Award
Dennis Carmichael, FASLA, LEED AP
carmichael associatesDennis Carmichael, FASLA, LEED AP, is a licensed landscape architect with 47 years of experience, spending most of his career with EDAW in Alexandria, VA.
His work has served as a catalyst for the revitalization of many American cities, including Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Wharf District Park in Boston, West Main Street in Louisville, and Ross’s Landing in Chattanooga. Locally, he designed the landscape for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Census Bureau, Potomac Yard Park, and Sallie Mae. He is currently leading the design of a ten-acre deck park over the interstate highway in midtown Atlanta.
Dennis has received over forty design awards and his work has been published in such magazines as Landscape Architecture, Urban Land, and Architecture. He has taught at Tulane University and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse University and lectured at numerous other colleges. He has served as national President of ASLA and as President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation.
In the words of a colleague and frequent collaborator, “No matter how much Dennis has seen and done, he looks upon the next site or opportunity or design critique with the same humbleness of ego and zest for the possible.”
In recognition of Dennis’s contributions, the Chapter has contributed to the Forest Service’s “Plant a Tree Program,” so 10 trees will be planted in Dennis’s honor.
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