In ASLA: 100 Years historian Melanie Simo traces the development of the profession of landscape architecture from the founding of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899. As she describes the controversy, concerns, and trends of the professionparticularly as evidenced in the awards program of the societySimo points out the various threads that come together to form the figure in the carpet, the image of a complex, broad, and diverse profession at the end of the second millennium. Her history is complemented by the essays of 13 ASLA Award winners, some of the best known and most respected figures in the field, and by more than 100 photographs of some of the most famous projects of the century.