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Residential Design Recognizes: site-specific works of landscape architecture for residential use. Entries are encouraged in all scales of design, from small gardens to large private landholdings. Professional entries in this category must be built; Student Awards entries in this category are not required to be built. Typical entries include: activity areas for family entertaining, recreation, relaxing; sustainable landscape applications; indigenous and native landscapes; new construction or renovation projects; historic preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or restoration; affordable landscape concepts and innovations; small site development; private gardens; rooftop gardens; and more. Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design and execution; design context and the expression of local or regional characteristics; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and demonstration of design value to the client and to other designers. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards. Recognizes: the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide, and evaluate landscape architecture design. Professional and Student entries in this category are not required to be built or implemented. Typical entries include: urban, suburban, rural, or regional planning efforts and/or development guidelines; transportation planning, town planning, or campus planning; plans for recovery or reclamation of brownfield sites; environmental planning in relation to legislative or policy initiatives or regulatory controls; and natural resources protection, conservation, or historic preservation planning; and more. Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of the analysis and planning effort; planning context and the application of local or regional characteristics; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; likelihood of successful implementation; and demonstration of design value to the client, the public, and other designers. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards. Recognizes: research projects that identify and investigate challenges posed in landscape architecture, providing results that advance the body of knowledge for the profession. Typical projects include: investigations into methods, techniques, or materials related to landscape architecture practice or education; assessments of social, economic, or environmental impacts of landscape architecture; study of relationships of landscape architecture to law, education, public health and safety, or public policy; investigations into historic practices, designed sites, cultural landscapes, or individual designers and design heritage; and more. Criteria: The jury will consider how the research is framed, the context and resources of the study, the methods of inquiry, the results of investigation, and the lesson value of the research conclusions to the field at large. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards. Recognizes: achievements in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, and their lesson value to the intended audience. Typical entries include: print media, film, video, audio, CD, or DVD formats; online communications; interpretive design; exhibition design; and more. For students, project representations may also be entered in this category. Criteria: The jury will consider the effectiveness of message presentation, innovation in approach or delivery, and value to the intended audience. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards. Recognizes: pro bono community service demonstrating sound principles or values of landscape architecture. Professional entries must demonstrate sustained, pro bono community service for at least five years. Typical entries include: individuals or organizations providing community-based advocacy or public service; development of public education programs; leadership in advocacy through local organizations or through ASLA Chapter activities; and more. Criteria: The jury will consider effectiveness related to the community’s environment and quality of life, and the demonstration value to other communities and professionals. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one organizational and one individual Community Service Award recipient.
The Landmark Award Recognizes: a distinguished landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago that retains its original design integrity and contributes significantly to the public realm. Typical entries include: built landscape works of all kinds. Criteria: The jury will consider the significance of the project’s sustained value to its community, its durability, and the continued relevance of the project’s specific design expression. Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury may select one Landmark Award recipient. Recognizes: collaborative work by landscape architecture students with students from allied and complementary disciplines, including those in other design fields, business, and the natural and social sciences. Typical entries include: projects that meet the criteria within the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis & Planning, Research, and Communications, brought about through collaborative effort with students from allied and complementary disciplines, including other design fields, business, and the natural and social sciences. Criteria: Projects submitted in this category must be team projects and must have at least one landscape architecture student as part of the team. Recognition: The Student Awards jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards.
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