Principal Landscape Architect, Richard Haag Associates, Inc.

Landscape Architect, educator, pioneer of adaptive reuse, naturalist, innovator, and scientist are terms expressed about Richard Haag in more than 600 built projects. Haag was educated at University of Illinois, University of California at Berkeley (B.L.A.), Harvard University Graduate School of Design (M.L.A.), awarded a Fulbright in Japan for two years and was Resident at the American Academy in Rome. Haag twice received the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Presidents Award for Design Excellence and is Founder and Professor Emeritus of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington; the Richard Haag Endowed Scholarship was instituted in his honor. Haag is a national/international lecturer and juror. Haag received the 2003 ASLA Medal, a lifetime achievement award, the highest honor given to a Landscape Architect by his peers and the 2007 ASLA Design Medal. He received the First Waterfront Cultural Heritage Award in 2009 from The Waterfront Center/The Cultural Landscape Foundation.