BSLA
/ ASLA Fellows
Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA
bestows on members and recognizes the contributions
of these individuals to their profession and society
at large based on their works, leadership and
management, knowledge, and service. The designation
of Fellow is conferred on individuals in recognition of
exceptional accomplishments over a sustained period
of time. Individuals considered for this distinction
must be full members of ASLA in good standing for
at least ten years and must be recommended to the
Council of Fellows by the Executive Committee of
their local chapter, the Executive Committee of the
ASLA, or the Executive Committee of the Council
of Fellows.
This year, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
is honored to have two of its members included in
this year’s investiture in Denver at ASLA’s Annual
Meeting. Congratulations to Pat and Mikyoung.
Class of 2014
AS LA Fellow : K n o wl e d g e
PATRICIA SCHROEDER LOHEED, FASLA
Pat has taught at the BAC since 1972 and had research/teaching collaborations
with Harvard GSD, Harvard Lab for Computer Graphics, and SUNY at Syracuse,
Yale School of Forestry, Cook College of Rutgers University, and Cornell
University. She is the Founding Head and Distinguished Faculty of the School
of Landscape Architecture, Boston Architectural College, and currently is part
of a collaborative writing arts residency at the Catwalk Art Institute in Catskill,
NY. Earthos-Institute, a non-profit she helped found, centered on design/
science collaboration, received a grant from the Schoenfeld Foundation and is
sponsoring fall continuing “Conversations”, open to the public at their Earthos
Innovation Lab, in West Somerville. Her Earthos projects include City of Boston
Browne Fund Roxbury History/Memory Trail for the Grove Hall Neighborhood
Development Corporation and projects on Ile-A-Vache, an island of 15,000
inhabitants off the SW end of Haiti. She also spent a week painting watercolors
in Monet’s Garden, Giverny, France. Her design firm, PLLA completed a number
of public and private projects from 1976 to 2011, which included the Mass.
Ave. streetscape from Lafayette Sq. to Memorial Drive, the Bird Island Flats
CA/T project, the new Boston Police HQ, the Mugar Theater at the Weston School, and the Brightman Street Bridge,
Somerset/Fall River.
Pat completed her BSLA at the University of Michigan, was licensed in Michigan in 1968, and joined BSLA as a full
member while studying for her MLA at the GSD in 1969. She has served as BSLA Newsletter Editor, Program Chair, and
for four years was Chapter President. Pat has garnered a rich view of the global design professions and a global network
serving incoming international students at Harvard’s GSD.
Pat has had a distinguished career as a
leader in the Boston Metro area both as a
practitioner and as an educator. It is in this
latter role that I believe she has made an
important and lasting contribution to the
Knowledge base of the profession through
her commitment to education, and in
particular to teaching and mentoring.
Ken Bassett, FASLA
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“Recognition of one’s peers is gratifying! Issues of climate change
came to the fore in the 2008 IFLA Congress in Apeldoorn, NL and
at the recent ESRI Users Conference 2014 in San Diego that we
attended. I urge the Council of Fellows to use their bully pulpit as a
platform for dealing with climate change. The Dutch had their 40
year plan in place, fully staffed and funded with a 5 point plan in
June 2008.”
–Patricia Schroeder Loheed