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Categories
General Design
Recognizes: site-specific works of landscape architecture or urban design. Professional entries in this category must be built; Student entries are not required to be built.
Typical entries include: public, institutional, or private landscapes, of all kinds (except residential—see residential category); historic preservation, reclamation, conservation; green roofs, stormwater management, sustainable design; design for transportation or infrastructure; landscape art or installation; interior landscape design; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design and execution (for professional entries); design context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and 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 in this category.
Residential Design
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 land holdings. Professional entries in this category must be built; Student entries in this category are not required to be built.
Typical entries include: single or multi-family residential projects; activity areas for cooking, entertaining, recreation, relaxation; sustainable landscape applications; indigenous and native landscapes; new construction or renovation projects; historic preservation, rehabilitation, 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 professional entries); context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and 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 in this category.
Analysis and Planning
Recognizes: the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide, and evaluate landscape architecture design. Entries in this category are not required to be built or implemented.
Typical entries include: urban, suburban, rural, or regional planning efforts; 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; 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, 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 in this category.
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; assessments of social, economic, or environmental impacts of landscape architecture; studies 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.
Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards in this category.
Communications
Recognizes: achievements in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, and the 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.
Criteria: The jury will consider the effectiveness of message presentation, the innovation in approach or delivery, and the 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 in this category.
NOTE: Official entrants in this category are not required to be a professional member of ASLA, but may be an Affiliate member or join as an Affiliate member in order to enter.
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: parks; plazas; sculpture gardens; botanical gardens; river walks; and more. Public officials and agencies, civic and historic preservation organizations, and interested individuals and entities are encouraged to submit projects in this category.
Criteria: The jury will consider the project's sustained value to the community it serves and the continued relevance of the project's design expression.
Recognition: The Professional Awards Jury may select one Landmark Award recipient.
NOTE: Official entrants in this category are NOT required to be a professional member of ASLA or to join. Local organizations, public officials, and other interested individuals are welcome to enter a qualified project.
Student Collaboration
Recognizes: collaborative work by landscape architecture students with students from allied and/or complementary disciplines, including those in other design fields, business, and the natural and social sciences, for example. 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, Communications, and Community Service brought about through collaborative effort among students from landscape architecture programs and allied and/or complementary disciplines.
Criteria: Projects submitted in this category must be team projects and each team must include at least one landscape architecture student and one non-landscape architecture student. The jury will evaluate the project under the criteria outlined in the categories listed above and will also consider the demonstration of collaboration among the disciplines represented on each team.
Recognition: The Student Awards jury may select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards in this category.
The Student Community Service Awards
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 Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards in this category.
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