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Dozens of landscape architects gathered recently at the Multnomah Athletic Club to honor their own.

The American Society of Landscape Architects‘ Oregon chapter opened the awards ceremony by bestowing its highest honor, Fellow of ASLA, to two people: Mike Faha of GreenWorks and Rob Ribe of the University of Oregon.

Ribe teaches ecological planning and research methods to students in landscape architecture, planning and environmental studies. He was director of the Institute of Sustainable Environment for 10 years. He also is an author, and according to ASLA, his research on forest landscapes has advanced that body of knowledge.

Faha was one of the nation’s first landscape architects to demonstrate that ecological function can work along with urbanism and aesthetics, according to ASLA, and has worked in the field for 25 years. His built projects in the Pacific Northwest have received international recognition, as well as attention from thousands of visitors.

Mayer/Reed Inc. and GreenWorks received the Award of Excellence and the People’s Choice Award for landscape architecture and urban design for the east segment of TriMet‘s MAX orange line from Portland to Milwaukie. GreenWorks also received a Merit Award for its landscaping design along U.S. 20 near Sisters.

Four other Merit Awards were given. University of Oregon associate professor Roxi Thoren received one for her book, 鈥淟andscapes of Change Innovative Designs and Reinvented Sites.鈥�

Design studio MIG Inc. received a Merit Award for its design of the playground at Nadaka Nature Park in Southeast Portland. Design studio PLACE received a Merit Award for its greenscape design of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building. Also, students in UO‘s Landscape Architecture Department received a Merit Award for a hypothetical indoor food production project.

Rebecca Wahlstrom, a spokeswoman for ASLA Oregon, said the students navigated a landscape design challenge for their project.

鈥淚t was a kind of imagining about what could happen and looking at ways to grow food indoors,鈥� she said.

Lorraine Davis, special assistant to the UO president and provost, was given an honorary ASLA membership for her years of helping schools with the landscape architecture accreditation process.

The Oregon Chapter Service Award was presented to Renee Wilkinson, Oregon ASLA communications chairwoman, for聽redesign of the Oregon chapter’s website.