Which landscape architects in the Boston area get the most and the highest 
quality reviews?

Hi,

Here are some Boston area landscape architects that have received numerous 
awards in recent years:

Pressley Associates
http://www.pressleyinc.com/

Carol R. Johnson Associates
http://www.crja.com/
http://www.crja.com/Profile/AwardCli/awardfr.htm

William Rawn Associates
http://www.rawnarch.com/
http://www.rawnarch.com/awards.html

Brown and Rowe Landscape Architects
http://www.brownrowe.com
http://www.brownrowe.com/Awards.htm

Hargreaves Associates
http://www.hargreaves.com/firm/awards.html

http://www.architects.org/emplibrary/ud_jury_comments_2001.doc
Claire Barrett AICP (Claire Barrett & Associates, Cambridge MA)
Mark Ginsberg AIA (Curtis + Ginsberg Architects, New York City)
Hunter Morrison (Cleveland City Planning Commission)
Brian Shea AIA (Cooper Robertson & Partners, New York City)
Robert Stein AIA (Carlson Associates, Framingham MA)

Urban Design Awards
http://www.architects.org/design_awards_programs/index.cfm?
doc_id=9#awards_schedule

Here's more information on highly rated landscape architects in Boston Area:

From an article in Boston Globe:
http://216.239.35.100/search?
q=cache:aeAXgfjBwygC:www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/064/science/
Landscape_architects_pit_ideas_against_dirty_water%
2B.shtml+boston+landscape+architects&hl=en

"The first-place award for professionals was given to Comprehensive 
Environmental Inc. 
of Merrimack, N.H. Each first-place-winning design receives $1,500.

Honorable mentions were given to Richard Claytor and John Sourial of Horsley 
and Witten Inc. 
of Sandwich and The BioEngineering Group Inc. of Salem."

From the Boston Society of Architects Design Awards Program page:
http://www.architects.org/design_awards_programs/index.cfm?doc_id=62

Carol R. Johnson Associates (landscape architect, Boston); 
The Halvorson Group (landscape architect, Boston)
Sasaki Associates (architect/landscape architect/civil engineer, Watertown MA)
Pressley Associates (landscape architect, Cambridge MA)

From the American Society of Landscape Architects Year 2000 Awards page:
http://www.asla.org/Members/awards/awardwinners/Awrds2000.htm
Landscape Architect(s): Pressley Associates, Inc  
Landscape Architect(s): Walker-Kluesing Design Group 
Landscape Architect(s): Urban Places Project, Umass; YouthPower/El Arco Iris 
Holyoke, MA 

More ASLA awards info:
http://www.asla.org/Members/awrd_toc.htm


Here's a newsgroup thread answering a similar question:

http://groups.google.com/groups?
q=boston+landscape+architect+OR+architects&hl=en&selm=38C119B0.415B%
40world.std.co

m&rnum=7

The Massachusetts Board of Landscape Architects 
(http://www.state.ma.us/reg/boards/la/default.htm) may be 

contacted for more information.

Their site includes these useful pages:

Facts for Consumers: Landscape Architects
http://www.state.ma.us/reg/consumer/fspagela.htm

Consumer Tips
http://www.state.ma.us/reg/consumer/WhenChoosing.htm

License Check
http://license.reg.state.ma.us/pubLic/licque.asp?color=green

The following two services claim to pre-screen their architects and have a 
service guarantee.

Respond.com: Landscaping Services
http://www.respond.com/buyers/requestform.jsp?
noproxy=1&cat=1106320000&path=1604022377&src=4419241
ServiceMagic: Landscaping Architects
http://www.servicemagic.com/servlet/RedirectServlet?m=goto&D=CATEGORY&catOID=-
9208&entry_point_id=451

Two more resources that might be able to provide consumer information:

The Council of Landscape Architectual Registration Boards
(CLARB) 
12700 Fair Lakes Circle, Suite 110
Fairfax, Virginia 22033
tel. 703/818-1300

Boston Society of Landscape Architects
(BSLA) 
19 Harrison Street
Framingham, MA 01702
tel. 508/620-5018

Also, try these Google searches:

boston landscape architect OR architects OR architecture
award OR awards landscape architect OR architects OR architecture
massachusetts landscape architect OR architects OR architecture
on both Google Web and Google Groups pages (use Web and Groups tabs on the 
Google home page).

Good luck!

This helps my search and provides many leads for further information.  
Thanks.  One thing that would be helpful is if the urls were active links.  It 
would make using the email of the answer a lot easier.  Great job though.

Snathan, I'm not sure what mail reader you use, but you may want to check its preferences. Most GUI-based email programs (not Pine and the like) automatically recognize fully formed URLs and will highlight them, making them clickable, automatically taking you to your browser. I'd be surprised if your mail reader does not have this feature (particulary since, as far as I know, any mail reader that can recognize the HTML which would give you active links can also recognize a stand-alone URL).

IE5.1 on Mac OS X does not display clickable URLs in these pages.

Just so you know I use MS Explorer and still get no result from clicking on 
the URLs.