Richard Haag (b. 1923) 2004 Stewardship Award Recipient
Landscape Architect

"The most fundamental aspect of his work has consistently been a concern for landform and sculpting of the land. His predilection for prime forms, clarity of shape, simple and direct plan organization, as well as a modernist abstract imagery is a marked contrast from the post modernist classical revival and deconstruction works of the 1980s. In his work one finds the frequent employment of circles, squares, truncated cones and pyramids, and a generous use of vertical relief, stairs, and ramps. Simple and direct plan organization is often combined with an encyclopedic knowledge of plants and horticulture."

- Excerpt from Laurie Olin's profile of Haag. Read the Full Profile (doc)