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Residential Design Category
In partnership with Garden Design magazine.
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.
Residential Design Category Rules and Entry Instructions
- For professionals, at least the first stage of construction
must be completed in order to be eligible. Student entries are
not required to be built.
- Individuals, firms, owners, public agencies, organizations,
or other entities may enter the professional Residential Design
Category as long as the project’s creative team includes
a landscape architect, a graduate of a landscape architecture
program, or a faculty member of a landscape architecture program.
Residential Design Category Entry Instructions
- All submission materials must fit into the official entry binder
provided by ASLA. The binder contains 24 views in 8.5” x 11”
format. The jury will not consider any items that are oversized or behind
other items. Additional material not included in the binder views will
be discarded.
- Entries in this category must conceal the name of the landscape
architect(s), other designers, students, and/or firm(s) responsible
for designing the project. This information should be listed on
the Residential Concealed Identification and Credit Form.
- Entrants are responsible for clearing photographs with photographers
for publication and reproduction by ASLA. ASLA will provide proper photography
credit when using photos, but will not assume responsibility for any
copyrights or photography fees.
- Binder covers may not be altered in any manner.
Entry binders must contain the following items:
- Descriptive Data Summary: Complete the form
and place the two (2) pages so that they show as the first two
views of the Entry Binder.
Professional
Residential Descriptive Data Summary Form
Student Residential
Descriptive Data Summary Form
- Drawings and Photographs:
- Submit at least five (5), but no more than ten (10) total
drawings and/or photographs, in both hard copy and electronically
on a CD-ROM (see details below).
- Hard copy drawings and photographs must be 8” x 10”
in either landscape or portrait format. No collages or smaller
format photos will be accepted.
- Descriptions of Drawings and Photographs:
On a separate, one-page, typed sheet, please provide one or two
sentences describing each drawing and photo. Place the sheet in
the view immediately following the photos in the Entry Binder.
- Plant List
- Concealed Identification and Credit Form:
Complete the form and attach to front cover of the Entry Binder
with a paperclip (please do not staple).
Professional
Residential Concealed Identification and Credit Form
Student Residential
Concealed Identification and Credit Form
- Copy of Submission on CD-ROM [required]:
- Save all Entry Binder contents on an IBM-compatible CD-ROM.
- The Descriptive Data Summary, descriptions of drawings
and photographs, and Concealed Identification and Credit form
should be saved in a word processing application (such as
rich text format, MS Word, WordPerfect, WordPad, etc.).
- Photographs and drawings must be stored in JPEG format
and the dimensions should be 3000 pixels x 2400 pixels, at
a minimum of 300 ppi (pixels per inch). Label each image with
your Entry Binder number and the number of the image. For
example, if your entry number is “123,” you will
label your JPEG files as 123-01, 123-02, 123-03, and so on.
- Please label the CD-ROM jewel case with your Entry Binder
number and secure the CD-ROM in the pocket inside the front
cover of the Entry Binder.
To download and edit forms:
- Place cursor over highlighted link;
- Right click on mouse to show menu of options;
- Click “Save Link/Target As” and save to your hard drive
(under a name and place you can easily find);
- Open with word processing application (MS Word, WordPerfect, WordPad,
etc.).
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