Two members of the Weitzman community were among the individuals and firms selected by the board of trustees of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for its 2025 Honors, the highest recognition ASLA bestows each year.
Dean and Paley Professor Fritz Steiner (MRP’77, MA’86, PhD’86) is the recipient of ASLA’s Landscape Architecture Medal of Excellence, which “recognizes significant contributions to landscape architecture policy, research, education, project planning, and design, or a combination of these items.” The Medal, which has been given since 2005, is given to individuals, firms, programs, organizations, and agencies. Steiner is only the fifth individual to receive it.
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture Christopher Marcinkoski has been recognized with honorary membership to ASLA, which recognizes “persons other than landscape architects whose achievements of national or international significance or influence have provided notable service to the profession of landscape architecture.” Trained and licensed as an architect, Marcinkoski is founding partner of PORT, an award-winning Philadelphia- and Chicago-based public realm planning and design practice.
In addition, two Penn alums, Ann English (C’80), RainScapes Manager at the Maryland Department of Environmental Protection, and Lisa Switkin (MLA’02), senior principal at Field Operations, were among the 50 members who were elevated to ASLA Fellows, among the highest honors ASLA bestows on members. They will be inducted at the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans from October 10 – 13, 2025.
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