Categories

General Design

Recognizes:  site-specific works of landscape architecture or urban design. Professional entries in this category must be built; Student Awards entries are not required to be built.

Typical entries include: public, institutional, or private landscapes, of all kinds; historic preservation, reclamation, conservation, or sustainable design; design for transportation or infrastructure; landscape art or installation; interior landscape design; green roofs; and more.

Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design and execution (for professionals); context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and design value to the client and to other designers.

Residential Design
In partnership with Garden Design magazine.

Recognizes: site-specific works of landscape architecture for residential use. Professional entries in this category must be built; Student Awards entries in this category are not required to be built.

Typical entries include: single or multi-family residential projects; activity areas for 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 (for professionals); context; environmental sensitivity and sustain-ability; and design value to the client and to other designers.

Analysis and Planning

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; campus planning; plans for recovery or reclamation of brownfield sites; environmental planning in relation to legislative or policy initiatives or regulatory controls; cultural resource reports; cultural and natural resources protection, conservation, or historic preservation planning; and more.

Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of the analysis and planning effort; context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; likelihood of successful implementation; and value to the client and other designers.

Research
In partnership with the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Journal.

Recognizes: research that identifies and investigates challenges posed in landscape architecture, providing results that advance the body of knowledge for the profession.

Typical entries 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; 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.

Communications

Recognizes: achievements in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, andthe lesson value to an 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.

The Landmark Award
In partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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 of the community in which it is located.

Typical entries include: built landscape works of all kinds. Nominations may be submitted by the original designer, on behalf of the original designer, or by any individual, firm, or organization in the community.

Criteria: The jury will consider the project's sustained value to the community it serves and the continued relevance of the project's specific design expression.

Student Collaboration

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. Student entries are not required to be built.

Typical entries include: landscape architecture projects that meet the criteria within the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis & Planning, Research, and Communications, brought about through collaborative effort among students from landscape architecture programs and 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.

The Student Community Service Award

Recognizes: pro bono community service by students demonstrating sound principles and values of landscape architecture.

Typical entries include: individual students or student organizations providing community-based advocacy or public service.

Criteria: The jury will consider the effectiveness related to the service and the demonstration value to other communities, students, and professionals.

Recognition: The Student Awards Jury may select one organization and one individual Community Service Award recipient.

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