Honoring a person of esteemed character who has rendered the profession of architecture as a valuable service within the territory of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA), and has conspicuously upheld the BSA's aims.
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Anyone who is not eligible for AIA or Associate AIA membership in the Boston Society of Architects/AIA (BSA) or any other chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Stephen Stimson, FASLAPartner and PrincipalSTIMSON
Stephen Stimson has been practicing landscape architecture for forty years after growing up on 10th generation dairy farm and studying landscape architecture at UMass Amherst and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He founded STIMSON in 1992, and the work of the firm is diverse, ranging from comprehensive planning and design of public parks and museums to college campuses, schools, farms and gardens. The team of forty designers, planners and horticulturalists is spread across urban and rural studios in the Northeast. He has an innate love of hand drawing, materiality, craft, and plants. STIMSON has been recognized with numerous regional and national awards, and Stephen has had the distinct privilege of working alongside dozens of New England, national and international architects over his career. For the past twenty years, he has been working on Charbrook, a lifelong project that remains his family home, studio, working farm, plant nursery and place of experimentation and inquiry. He believes that good design should be present in all aspects of a person’s life. An open-minded and spontaneous spirit has encouraged a diverse body of work that reflects the independent interests of the entire STIMSON team, earning them the Firm Award from the ASLA in 2021. In 2004, Stephen was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects for his body of work in the field of landscape architecture.
Ronald M. DrukerPresidentThe Druker Company, Ltd.
Ronald M. Druker, President of The Druker Company, Ltd. has been involved in a variety of development activities encompassing retail, hotel, residential and office projects over his career. His most recent focus has been on urban mixed-use developments, including The Heritage On The Garden in Boston’s Back Bay, across from the Public Garden and Atelier|505 in Boston’s South End. Both of these complexes were recognized by the Urban Land Institute by winning the coveted “Oscar” of the profession, The ULI Award for Excellence.The Druker Company is currently completing construction on 350 Boylston Street, a 235,000 sq. ft. mixed-use retail and office building in Boston’s Back Bay designed by Robert A.M. Stern. Located across from the Public Garden, 350 Boylston is fully leased to Bain & Company and will serve as its headquarters. Occupancy is expected to be January of 2026.Druker is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, The Columbia Graduate School of Business and was a Loeb Fellow at The Harvard Graduate School of Design where he also was a member of the Urban Design faculty from 1975-1983.Druker is active on many civic, educational and cultural boards including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the Belmont Hill School, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Museum of Fine Arts, where Druker has served on the Executive Committee and chaired the Campus Planning and Building Committee.
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