Congratulations to Annaliese Bischoff, Professor Emerita of Landscape Architecture, who won a 2025 BSLA Design Award. Professor Bischoff received a Jury Special Recognition Award for “Recovering and Sharing the Work of Frank A. Waugh for New Audiences," a project about her recent book, The Man Who Loved Trees.
The Man Who Loved Trees tells the story of Frank A. Waugh (1869-1943) and his evolving love for trees. Waugh was a pioneering advocate of native planting design and a professor of landscape architecture who, in 1903, founded the program that became the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst. Annaliese Bischoff was inspired to write The Man Who Loved Trees after stumbling upon the prospectus for Waugh’s planned book on tree portraits, which reflect the themes he used in analyzing nature and in landscape design.
The BSLA jury noted: "This project collects and presents tree illustrations into a well-crafted narrative, aiming to celebrate historic etchings with a non-traditional organizational approach."
Learn more about Bischoff's project and other BSLA Design Award winners here and in the 2025 BSLA Fieldbook publication.
Beyond this achievement, Annaliese Bischoff was recently interviewed for a "Local Author Spotlight" at the Jones Library in Amherst, and she has been invited to curate an exhibit about Frank A. Waugh at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Kansas in 2027.