Richard Shaw

Biography

Richard Shaw is a principal in the office of Design Workshop in Aspen, Colorado. He is a Logan native, the son of USU Professor Emeritus Richard J. Shaw of the Department of Biology. Leaving his Cache Valley home behind, Richard went to work at Brauer & Associates in the Minneapolis area. He received an MLA at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he won the Jacob Weidenmann Prize in 1976. He joined the fledgling firm of Design Workshop in 1976, shortly after its opening in Aspen, and has played an instrumental role in its development as one of the top landscape architectural firms in the country.

Richard has gained recognition for his work on a wide variety of project types and scales, ranging from major year-round resort communities to single family residential design. A sampling of projects on which he has managed principal design responsibility include the Aizu Resort, Fushima Prefecture, Japan; Aspen Mountain Base Redevelopment, Colorado; Baqueria Beret, Pyrenees, Spain; Blackcomb Resort, Whistler, British Columbia; Canyon Village Redevelopment, Yellowstone National Park; the Estrella Resort, Goodyear, Arizona, and the North Lake Tahoe Tourism Plan, Lake Tahoe, California.

Richard has won numerous honors and awards for his work with the office, including a Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA) National Merit Award for the Banff Downtown Enhancement Plan, 1993, both the CSLA and ASLA National Merit Awards for the Bow Canmore Corridor Visual Impact Assessment, 1991, and the CSLA National Merit Award for Kananaskis Village, 1989. He was also the recipient of the 2009 ASLA Design Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the American Society of Landscape Architects.