Honors, Awards and Exhibitions

2022 Civil + Structural Engineer Magazine’s Yearbook of Engineering Achievement Award Heartwood Preserve

2021 Architizer A+ Award, Heartwood Greenways and Stormwater Masterplan

2020 Architecture MasterPrize

Large Scale Landscape Projects, Heartwood Greenway System

2020 Preservation Design Award Livermore Depot Rehabilitation and Relocation

2020 NCC ASLA
Honor Award in Analysis & Planning, Heartwood Greenways & Stormwater Masterplan

2020 APA Awards for Excellence in Sustainability Green Infrastructure Plan or Project Category Winner, Heartwood Greenways System

2019 AIA Silicon Valley Merit Award Ohlone College

2019 Governor’s Historic Preservation Award Livermore Depot

2017 NCC ASLA
Merit Award, Battery East Vista

2016 ASCE San Francisco Section
Parks and Recreation Project of the Year Award, Battery East Vista

2015 ENR California Best Projects
Best Project, CSU Cal Maritime Physical Education & Aquatics Center

2015 SCUP Excellence Awards
Honor Award, Ohlone College Academic Core

2014 AIA CC
Honor Award, Edie and Lew Wasserman Building UCLA

2014 NCC ASLA
Honor Award, Foothill College

2014 NCC ASLA
Merit Award, 888 Brannan

2013 AIA East Bay
Honor Award, Foothill College Physical Science and Engineering Complex

2012 ASLA
Landmark Award, Yorkville Park

2011 AIA Hong Kong Chapter
Merit Award, Urban Planning, Lang-Fang Eco Smart City Master Plan

2009 AIA San Francisco Chapter
Small Firms Great Projects, Fibrogen Headquarters at Mission Bay

2009 University of California Best Practice Award
Overall Sustainable Design, Veterinary Medicine Research Facility 3B

2009 California Community College Facility Coalition
Award of Merit, Physical Science and Engineering Complex

1996 ASLA
Presidents Award of Excellence, Yorkville Park

1991 ASLA
Honor Award, Citadel Grand Allee

1991 ASLA
Honor Award, Becton Dickinson Atrium

1984 Garden Design Magazine Competition
Winning entry, Birdsall Residence

Publications

ASLA-NCC, “Pushing Ground and Graphite”, 2023.

Meyer, David. “Stirring the Soul.” The Shape of Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture, edited by Marc Treib, Oro Editions, Novato, CA, 2022, pp. 148–167.

Global Design, “Heartwood Greenway System”, December 9, 2022.

Jacobsson, Clare, “A Soaring, Light-Filled Atrium is at the Heart of this San Francisco Facility Serving Mental Health Needs”, Architectural Record, July 5, 2023.

Topscape Paysage, “Stati Uniti Omaha - Heartwood Preserve Greenways”, Il Progetto Del Paesaggio Contemporaneo, Sommario 48, 2022.

Meyer, David, “A Holistic Approach to Managing Floodwater”, Civil and Structural Engineering Magazine, December 1, 2021.

Meyer, David, “Using Purposeful Design in Floodwater Control Systems”, Storm Water Solutions, October 29, 2021.

Gonzalez, Cindy, “Heartwood Preserve to showcase a park and creative water basins”, Omaha Workd-Herald, March 28, 2021.

Levy, Martin, “Heartwood Preserve Greenways, Heartwood Park to open June 1st”, Patch, March 22, 2021.

Schweiss, Kara, “Designing for People And Nature: Heartwood Preserve Brings New Look to Classic Location”, Omaha Magazine, May 26, 2020.

Archello, 888 Brannan and Waller Park, 2020.

Gonzalez, Cindy, “Applied Underwriters celebrates work on Heartwood RPeserve development, touts natural features”, Omaha World-Herald, September 26, 2019.

Beardsley, John and Bluestone, Daniel. “Landscape and the Academy”, Harvard University Press, May 14, 2019.    

Tate, Alan. “Great City Parks.” Routledge, 2015.

Hunt, John Dixon. “Historical Ground: The Role of History in Contemporary Landscape Architecture”, Routledge, February 13th, 2014.

World Landscape Architecture, Volume 11, Small, WLA Magazine, 2014.

The Atlas of World Landscape Architecture, Braun Publishing AG, 2013.

Amoroso, Nadia. “Digital Landscape Architecture Now”, Thames and Hudson, 2012.

Global Sustainable Landscape Masterpieces, Eco Landscape Today – Volume 2, Dopress Books, 2012.

Sullivan, Chip. "Illustrated History of Landscape Design"  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010. 

Rihan, Xing, “Public Landscape”, H. K. Rihan International Culture Spread Ltd., 2010.

Lam, George, “Ideas and Concepts – Landscape Architecture, Pace Publishing, 2009.

Richardson, Tim. “Avant Gardeners”, Thames and Hudson, 2008.

Sullivan, Chip. "Drawing the Landscape." John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.

White, Hazel.  "How to Celebrate a Tree." The San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2003.

"Gardener's World -Documentary." British Broadcasting Company (BBC), August 22, 2003.

Louie, Elaine.  “In the Cotswolds, A ‘Snake in the Grass’ and Other Aesthetics.”  The New York Times, July 24, 2003.

Donald, Caroline, “Daring to be Different.”  The London Times, June 15, 2003.

Kirkwood, Niall, “The Art of Landscape Detail: Fundamentals, Practices and Case Studies” John Wiley and Sons. 1998.

Potteiger, Matthew and Purinton, Jamie, “Landscape Narratives; Design Practices for Telling Stories.”  John Wiley and Sons.  1998.

Cerver, Francisco A. “Village of Yorkville Park.”  Landscape Architecture 02, The World of Environmental Design.  1997.

Andrighetti, Rick.  “Village of Yorkville Park, Toronto.”  The Canadian Architect.  August 1994.

Handmaker, Linda. “Setting the Landscape in Motion.” Garden Design Magazine. August 1984.