ASLA 2020 Professional and Student Awards Call for Entries Now Open

por Jacquelyn Bianchini

ASLA 2019 Professional Analysis and Planning Honor Award. +StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic, TLS Landscape Architecture, Shanghai OBJECT TERRITORIES, and [dhd] derek hoeferlin design | Photo Credit: TLS | OT | dhd

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is accepting submissions for its 2020 Professional and Student Awards Program.
ASLA Awards are the oldest and most prestigious awards program in the profession of landscape architecture. They honor the best and most innovative landscape architecture projects from around the globe and give a glimpse into the future of the profession.
This year, a new award category, Urban Design, will recognize projects that activate networks of spaces that mediate between social equity, economic viability, infrastructure, environmental stewardship, and place-making in the public and private realm.
Award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture Magazine and are honored at the awards presentation ceremony during the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture in Miami Beach, October 2-5, 2020.
Submissions for ASLA Professional Awards are due no later than 11:59 PST on Friday, March 6, 2020.
Submissions for ASLA Student Awards are no later than 11:59 PST on Monday, May 11, 2020.

ASLA 2019 Student General Design Honor Award. A Plastic Tide, The University of Hong Kong | Photo Credit: Wiley Chi Wai Ng, Student ASLA

ASLA bestows Professional Awards in General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, Analysis & Planning, Communications, Research categories. In each of these categories, juries select a number of Honor Awards and may select one Award of Excellence. One Landmark Award is also presented each year.
This year’s Professional Awards Jury includes:

Chair: Jose Alminana, FASLA – Andropogon
Jane Berger – Writer
Ujijji Davis, ASLA – SmithGroup
Mark Hough, FASLA – Duke University
Mark Johnson, FASLA – Civitas
Kathleen John-Alder, FASLA – Rutgers University
Mia Lehrer FASLA – Studio-MLA
Tanya Olson, ASLA – Tallgrass Landscape Architecture
Robert Rogers – Architects+Urban Designers
Stephanie A. Rolley, FASLA – Kansas State University
Gale Newman, ASLA – Texas A&M University

ASLA bestows Student Awards in General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, Analysis & Planning, Communications, Research, Student Community Service, and Student Collaboration. In each of these categories, juries select a number of Honor Awards and may select one Award of Excellence. One Landmark Award is also presented each year.
This year’s Student Awards Jury includes: