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FOREGROUND 30 NOW The downing of “One Tree” advances landscape education; behind the scenes of a dogged Toronto fountain; robots among the plant rows; a San Francisco alley reaps green benefits; and more.

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58 THE 2017 ASLA STUDENT AWARDS This year students stretched both their imaginations and geographical boundaries with their projects.

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60 COMMUNICATIONS 68 STUDENT COLLABORATION 74 COMMUNITY SERVICE 80 RESEARCH 82 ANALYSIS AND PLANNING 96 RESIDENTIAL DESIGN 98 GENERAL DESIGN

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“ IT’S A FUTURISTIC LANDSCAPE IN MINIATURE.” —ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, P. 112

112 THE 2017 ASLA PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

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CONTRIBUTORS Many ASLA Awards hopefuls encounter CAROLYN MITCHELL, Honors and Awards Specialist, in her role as the patient godparent of the entry process. Carolyn begins each year fielding the questions by entrants, checks every detail of the entries, and stays close to the honorees right up to the presentation of the awards at ASLA’s Annual Meeting. She has been our colleague since 2004.

“I never know what my day is going to bring, fielding questions from someone as close as Maryland or someone as far away as China, talking to students, advisers, or even a parent.

When the day of the ceremony arrives, knowing I helped put that burst of pride on their faces makes it all worthwhile.”

TERENCE POLTRACK is familiar to most people as ASLA’s director of communications, having joined us a er a career in journalism. Behind the scenes, Terry produces the juries for the ASLA Awards. He also has managed the Society’s Diversity Summits for the past several years.

He is currently completing a rebranding campaign for ASLA.

“I am always stunned by the beauty and complexity of the submissions.

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usan Combs will be back for the goldencheeked warbler. Combs is a former Texas state comptroller, agriculture commissioner, and state representative who has been nominated by President Trump to run the policy and budget section of the U.S. Department of Interior. The job will put her in charge of all things related to the Endangered Species Act, under which the golden-cheeked warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia) is listed as being at risk of extinction. She “has an aesthetic interest in the golden-cheeked warbler and seeks to conserve the warbler and its habitat within Texas,” according to a petition she signed in June 2015 to have the bird taken off the federal Endangered Species list. But “Combs believes that local and state conservation efforts would be of greater benefit to the warbler and that continued unwarranted regulation under the Endangered Species Act can impede voluntary and local conservation efforts.”

a law enforcement official for the service, Mowad arrived in 2010 to oversee its four Texas offices.

Combs was serving as state comptroller. Mowad said he soon discovered that species protection in the state did not run by the book. “Susan Combs had a small group of individuals that she associated with, and that small group was profiting off of decisions that the Fish and Wildlife Service was making,” Mowad testified. This group “was, in my opinion, receiving preferential treatment in…getting their paperwork through, getting decisions from the Fish and Wildlife Service.” The decisions were geared toward benefiting industry by thwarting the listing of imperiled species for protection. Combs is said to have likened these listings to “incoming Scud missiles” that threaten the Texas economy.

How Combs, who today runs her family’s west Texas cattle ranch, wound up shaping endangered species policy as state comptroller is somewhat hazy. The responsibility previously lay with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In 2011, a state representative then in office, Warren Chisum, a Republican from the city of Pampa, introduced an amendment to a must-pass spending bill that transferred oversight of endangered species to the comptroller. The Texas Oil & Gas Association pushed for the transfer; otherwise, no reasons for the move emerged, and no hearings were held, because it was not accomplished with a stand-alone bill. That same year, the conservation plan for the sagebrush lizard came out and effectively averted the listing of the lizard under the Endangered Species Act. The industry-heavy coalition would be in charge of the lizard’s fate.

Combs seems fond of these voluntary and local conservation efforts, as opposed to statutory mandates, to protect species, perhaps because they have little if any force. In 2011, she masterminded an effort called the Texas Conservation Plan for the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus arenicolus). The plan was less about conserving the lizard than keeping it off the Endangered Species list and out of the way of the Texas Oil & Gas Association and the Texas Farm Bureau, among other cosigners of the plan, with “a locally controlled and innovative approach.” Another cosigner was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southwest Region office. The problem, according to Gary G. Mowad, a former enforcement official and Texas administrator for the U.S. Fish and Mowad testified that upon completion of the Texas Wildlife Service, was that “this plan was not only Conservation Plan, Benjamin Tuggle, then the dinot enforceable, but it wasn’t even verifiable.” rector of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southwest Region, congratulated the Austin staff in person That observation arose in the course of a whistle- for their work on the plan and, Mowad added, blower protection complaint Mowad filed against “[Tuggle] stated, ‘There was not [sic] way we were the wildlife service in 2014. After two decades as going to list a lizard in the middle of oil country

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during an election year.” Mowad says his “jaw just about hit the ground, because that to me showed that that was a pre-decisional determination” and was not based on “the best available science,” as required by the Endangered Species Act. “I am of the opinion this was a political decision,” Mowad said.

Having gotten the lizard where she and her allies wanted it, Combs then aimed at the goldencheeked warbler, which has been listed as endangered since 1990. The bird winters in Mexico and Central America and nests in summer in 33 central Texas counties where it depends on Ashe juniper for nesting material. The National Audubon Society recently cited an estimate that 1.5 million acres of the warbler’s Texas habitat had disappeared between 1999 and 2011, and that the bird’s population had dropped by a quarter. In 2015, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a “free enterprise” group in Austin, filed a petition with the wildlife service to have the warbler delisted— the petition Combs signed. It claimed there were 19 times the number of extant warblers than were counted when the species was first listed. The service reviewed the petition and rejected it. Then in early June of this year, the foundation sued the Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the warbler.

That suit is pending. On August 3, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved Combs’s nomination, along with four other nominees for the Interior and Energy departments. Combs has no particular biological credentials, but all that stands now between her and the warbler—and about 1,275 other endangered animals and plants in the United States—is an expected yes vote on her nomination in the full Senate upon its return from August recess.

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CRITICAL LIFTING AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, STUDENTS DOCUMENT AND MEMORIALIZE A LANDSCAPE IN FLUX.

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Choreographing this potent— and at times absurdly moving— tree-removal ceremony was Jesse Vogler, Affiliate ASLA, a 21st-century Fitzcarraldo and an assistant pro-

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fessor of landscape architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Vogler and his team of students thought this act of landscape demolition required a worthy ritual: extracting one tree of the 32 slated for removal for a new student center. They would honor its service, scale, strength, and site relationship, and also laser scan the tangled root complex.

The removal of Tree B5 marked the start of construction for the East End Transformation, an 18-acre expansion of facilities for arts, architecture, and engineering at Washington University’s Danforth Campus. The capital project includes an underground parking structure in place of the current Brookings Drive allée, to be topped with the new Ann and Andrew Tisch Park, designed by Michael Vergason Landscape Architects.

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he crane whined, the cable tightened, the tree swayed, and the crowd murmured. But Tree B5, an 80-year-old, 85-foot-tall, 15-ton Quercus palustris, did not budge from its place in the Brookings allée.

Earlier, a crew used high-pressure hydro-excavation tools and a giant vacuum to daylight the oak’s filigree of roots, and arborists jumared up with four cable slings to steady the crown. The audience in front of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in Saint Louis was transfixed by this massive marionette, anticipating the moment the formidable machine might pluck it like a weed. After the failure of the initial tug, the crew phoned the crane supervisor to ply more tension, and yet some grounding force would not let go. B5 was defiantly planted.

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To address the impact, Vogler and Ken Botnick, a professor of art, hosted a semester-long, interdisciplinary studio that asked students to physically engage with the scale, duration, and materials of the in-between landscape: “For some of [them], this was the first time they had held a

shovel and dug a hole,” Vogler says. Over the semester he dispatched spades, laser levels, and 3-D scanners in the hands of students to analyze and interpret this landscape in transition. In the initial weeks of the studio, participants homed in on “obsessions” related to the culture and material qualities of oak trees.

They initiated provisional projects to instigate discussions at the intersection of conceptual art, landscape architecture, and high-performance construction techniques. “The topic was well defined: to bring friction from this moment of demolition and construction,” Vogler says. “But the process of how we would make meaning from it was truly openended. We didn’t start out by saying, ‘We’re going to hire a crane to extract a tree out of the allée.’ We were building the ship while sailing it.”

The One Tree Project, as it became known, is exemplary of the innovative methods of landscape education that close the gap between low-risk methods of paper-based or digital design abstraction and the critical

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risks of working in landscapes at actual size, where true forces and materials are charged with powerful vulnerabilities and contingencies. “Critical lifting” is a specific crane operation, one that may involve an irreplaceable load, an uncertain weight, one with a potential shock load (the doubling of weight due to gravity), or a load that is unstable in flight. The critical lifting of Tree B5 engaged these material and safety risks—and risks of conceptual failure—in sharp relief.

Near the end of the day, a nearby excavator was dispatched to the scene to hasten the process. The operator leaned the boom and bucket against the trunk, pivoted, pushed again, and finally, Tree B5 gave way, its fall cradled by the careful slackening of the crane cable. Partway down it caught, the crown shuddered and blossomed, and it was finally laid to rest to bittersweet applause.

THE ONE TREE PROJECT, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

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MEET VINOBOT AND VINOCULER, A DUO THAT CAN VISUALIZE HOW PLANTS ADAPT TO THEIR SURROUNDINGS.

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n a cornfield in Missouri, two robots, one stacked on top of the other, file down the narrow rows. As they move, they collect information about the plants using various sensors —enough to create a 4-D graphic model on a computer. By building these models, scientists can show how plants react and adapt to their surrounding conditions. Someday, more robots like these might toil in cities and forests as well, helping humans determine how a plant species is responding to climate change.

“We wanted these robots to investigate different species of plants,” says Gui DeSouza, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri’s Vision-Guided and Intelligent Robotics Laboratory. “One plant may respond better to flood conditions, another to extreme heat.

We’re essentially trying to correlate the plant’s phenotype, or the plant’s observable behavior during an environmental change, to its shape and physiology.”

DeSouza’s research as an engineer centers on formable objects, such as plant leaves, and devising ways to calculate their measurements. Leaves, he says, constantly move and sway, making their surface area and structure

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difficult to calculate.

But with two robots collecting images, DeSouza says it’s possible to illustrate how plants adjust to their environment over time and build visualizations of complex plant behavior that have traditionally been difficult to capture.

Vinobot, one of the two robots, has sensors at three levels: near the ground, a few feet above the ground around the midlevel of the plant, and at the top of the plant. At each level, the Vinobot gathers information about light, humidity, and temperature. The top level of sensors on Vinobot has a quantum sensor model that can measure photosynthetically active radiation, or the amount of light the plants are able to use during photosynthesis.

The other robot, Vinoculer, is a tower equipped with an arm that has two steady cameras, one of them using infrared to detect temperature changes over time, that rotate around plants to create a 3-D image of the plant as well as a 4-D temperature change model that displays heat on the plant at different times.

It can also scan its surrounding area from 30 to 60 feet in any direction to identify plants of interest, such as ones that are struggling.

“We can measure leaf angles and the distance between leaves,” DeSouza says. “We can also measure seeding and the size of the corn—which suggests how that family of corn is responding.” Once the imagery is taken, it’s compiled and sent back to the lab, the Bradford Research Center, for further analysis. This might entail comparing older 3-D models to newer 3-D models to see how the plant’s growth is progressing.

“What we’re really studying is how climate change is changing migration patterns and temperatures,” DeSouza says, adding that a California orange orchard has been in contact about using the robots for studying orange trees, and he expects other farmers will want to build their own robots to gather plant information.

DeSouza says that these robots are cheaper to assemble than unmanned aerial vehicles and don’t need Federal Aviation Administration approval to fly, making them attractive options for studying vegetation. “Anywhere that a deformable object changes, any type of plant, Vinobot and Vinoculer can use our algorithms to model the object,” he says, “and show how different variables affect it.”

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Y NOW, you’ve probably seen photos of the fountain at Toronto’s Berczy Park. Three-tiered, castiron, and quasi-Victorian in style, it’s the centerpiece of Claude Cormier + Associés’s makeover for the downtown park. What’s made it particularly Instagramworthy are its 27 dogs, including a ring of a dozen pugs, all with jets of water spouting from their mouths. Adorning the fountain are more pugs, set among a grid of dog-collar-like studs, while a single cat perches on the edge, gazing toward a pair of Canadian warblers on a light pole.

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The cast-iron canines are a nod to the increasing presence of dogs in urban Toronto—until recently, Berczy Park hosted a dog festival called Woofstock—but also a way to bring together residents, workers, and tourists of all ages, says Claude Cormier, ASLA. When it opened in June 2017, the park became an instant destination.

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was a mix of 3-D scanning and “ Itsculpting.

We wanted to work with this foundry in Alabama [Robinson Iron] because they have the knowledge of old cast-iron fountains. We did one mock-up from that little toy [set]. They cast one piece in iron, and we tested it with the hose and the nozzle. And then it was tested in Toronto with [fountain designer] Dan Euser’s specificity. Each dog is different, but each one has a leg large enough that you could fit a pipe of one-inch diameter in it.

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In 2016, Alabama’s Little River Falls dried up during a record-setting drought.

he drought hit Alabama in fall 2016. By November, as the flow of water into Mobile Bay slowed to a trickle, saltwater species like blue crabs were observed more than 40 miles upstream. Some waterways dried up completely, including Alabama’s iconic Little River Falls. “It’s personal to me because the stream that my kids play in actually was dewatered,” says Mitch Reid, a program director at the Alabama Rivers Alliance. “Everything that was in it—fish, snails, mussels—died. There were even dead snakes in the middle of the streambeds, withering away. It kind of felt like Armageddon.”

It was not, of course, the end of the world but rather the by-product of a lack of planning on the part of the state. Reid says that unlike a vast majority of states, Alabama lacks a comprehensive water management plan or statewide policies to regulate how much water farmers, manufacturers, and municipalities draw in times of drought. Where Reid lives, golf course irrigation was among the reasons Patton Creek dried up. “I never did take issue with the golf course,” he says. “My issue is that the state didn’t have the ability to step in and balance the needs of the stream with the needs of the users.”

This lack of management is what earned the Mobile Bay River Basin a spot on America’s Most Endangered Rivers for 2017, a list compiled by the advocacy group American Rivers. The river system, whose watershed covers two-thirds of the

state of Alabama and also reaches into Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi, is a national treasure of aquatic biodiversity, with more species of freshwater fish, mussels, and snails than just about any other part of the country. The biologist E. O. Wilson, who was born and raised in Alabama, described the Mobile–Tensaw Delta as an “American Amazon.”

That biodiversity is threatened by the state’s poor water management, says Ben Emanuel, one of American Rivers’s directors of clean water supply, “especially freshwater mussels, which are often the canary in the coal mine for river ecosystems.”

The effects are felt particularly hard in Mobile Bay, a major economic engine for the state. “The big-picture impact, and the reason that the entire basin is listed, is that management decisions here in the northern part of the state impact the flow of water all the way down into the Mobile Delta,” Reid adds.

Beyond its biodiversity, the delta—the second-largest in the country—has a “rich cultural, social heritage,” says Charlene LeBleu, FASLA, the interim head of Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture. Hidden within the delta are everything from 750-year-old mounds made by indigenous peoples to a town founded by the last group of slaves ever brought to the United States. “There is something around every corner in Mobile to be dug up,” says LeBleu, who recently led a studio in Mobile that sought to mitigate thermal pollution in Mobile Bay. (Stormwater runoff in Mobile can reach 122 degrees Fahrenheit and cause severe damage to the marine ecosystem.)

On top of all that, in June of this year, cities across Alabama saw record rainfall. Suddenly, no one was thinking about the drought. “It’s hard to get people excited about a water management plan when they’re literally dealing with floodwaters on a weekly basis,” Reid says. “But the best time to make good decisions about water use is when you have water. We don’t [want] to get into another 2016 before we dust off that report.”

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LeBleu is hopeful that the inclusion of Alabama’s rivers on this year’s Most Endangered list will prompt the state to take action.

There are signs of progress: This year, after five years of study, the Alabama Water Agencies Working Group delivered its final recommendations to the governor’s office; in May legislation was introduced that would provide a foundation for statewide management. The bill was never voted on, however, and the governor’s report has yet to be released. In April, Alabama’s governor, Robert Bentley, resigned after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of misusing campaign contributions.

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PARKS PROGRESS A NEW YORK PROGRAM “AGITATES” FOR BETTER PARKS ON BEHALF OF ITS RESIDENTS.

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n 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an infusion of $150 million that would go toward renovating parks in the city’s poorer neighborhoods, giving parks that have been overlooked for decades the kind of attention that Central Park and the High Line get monthly.

By 2015, the initiative’s pot had grown to $285 million. Today, more than 60 parks are reaping the benefits, and eight wealthier park conservancies, including Central Park’s and the High Line’s, have pitched in $15 million toward the effort.

firm, says she has learned that although these communities are underserved, residents are savvy New Yorkers. “They’ve been to the High Line, Central Park, and Randall’s Island,” she says.

The primary difference between lower-income neighborhoods and their wealthier counterparts is that working families often don’t have as much time to “agitate for a project,” Shipley says. In this regard, the Community Parks Initiative can help create real park equity. “The driving force has been getting the commuQuennell Rothschild & Partners nity involved in the project,” Shipley scooped up 11 of the commissions, says. “There’s not a lot of difference and Alison Shipley, a partner in the in what these communities are look-

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The main challenge is budgetary, with parks coming in between $1.2 million and $4 million. “The budget is limited, and the process is fairly fast-tracked, so they don’t want you to go out on a limb,” Shipley says.

“It’s more a matter of using standard materials in a way that’s a bit more interesting.” The firm uses different colors of concrete with scoring patterns to break out of the standard grid, or arranges rubber safety surface tiles in patterns. Introducing concrete grade changes with steps, ramps, and terraces provides a variety of vantages rather than a flat play space.

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Shipley says community meetings helped produce parks where residents got most, if not all, of what they wanted. Pie charts were used to illustrate how the requests fared against one another, and Shipley says people usually understood if something they wanted didn’t make it into their park. Most were just

happy to finally see improvements, she says. “We learned not to try to cram too much into one space. It’s tempting to give them everything, but it can become a laundry list. It’s better to think what really comfortably fits in a space without trying to overly program [it], and to create as much green space as possible.”

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Over the past year or so, the GBD program has significantly improved the public landscaping within a 70-block portion of the city. Essentially a neighborhood tax, the GBD is a parkcentric twist on a special assessment district (also called a community benefit district, among other names). Regulated by state and local government, they often take the form of special business districts formed by retailers to pay for street cleaning, security, and other communal needs. In San Francisco, property owners in a defined area vote to set up such a district, and a nonprofit organization with an elected board decides how the yearly assessments, which are calculated based on square footage and type of usage, are spent.

“City departments have money and power, but they are huge lumbering things, while advocates at the local level see what the opportunities and needs are,” says Julie Christensen, executive director of the Dogpatch & Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District. “The GBD bridges the gap between the two.”

Like Angel Alley, nearly all of the streetscapes in the Dogpatch, an evolving industrial area that was not designed with residential amenities, began as the pet projects of resident volunteers. The GBD will help ensure that these ad hoc parks are maintained into the future. With an annual budget that comes to $600,000 this year, the GBD is able to supplement what the public works department provides with more frequent maintenance, a greater variety of plants, and improved infrastructure (including new exercise equipment, paths, and drainage systems). This year, the group plans to put out an RFP for the redesign of Woods Yard, a block-long park along 22nd Street. “[The GDB] is a creative, grassroots way of getting parks cleaned up and projects done, and provides a sustainable funding stream,” says the economist Margaret Walls, a senior fellow at Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C.–based environmental think tank. “However, there are potential downsides to this approach: It could possibly create a ‘haves and have-nots’ situation or encourage the city to allocate funds elsewhere. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the long term.”

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or years, Angel Alley in San Francisco, which leads to the headquarters of the Hells Angels, had a fittingly outlaw aura. Narrowed by half in an expansion of the neighboring municipal bus yard, this section of Tennessee Street was trash-strewn and unmaintained. In 2015, community members used grant money to clean up the alley and hired the landscape architect David Fletcher, ASLA, to design it. Now, gabion walls of concrete rubble, coated with glow-in-the-dark paint for nighttime visibility, define planter beds filled with succulents. And the streetscape is getting regular maintenance, thanks to the neighborhood’s green benefit district (GBD), a creative new funding mechanism for city parks.

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ittle more than a concrete slab in a small town in eastern Quebec —at least on paper—the redevelopment of the Rimouski Breakwater easily might have escaped the world’s attention. Rimouski, a predominantly French-speaking city of approximately 50,000 people, is closer to Allagash, Maine, than to Montreal, and the project in question involved enhancing a space of just 10,760 square feet. With an equally small budget—$300,000— the landscape architects at OPTION aménagement, based in Quebec City, were charged with enhancing an existing breakwater at the terminus of the Promenade de la Mer, a three-mile-long multiuse path that follows the Saint Lawrence River, which in Rimouski is 25 miles wide and gives the air a salty bite.

nection between the user and the landscape: a white aluminum tide tower communicates the level of the tide; a steel compass rose nods to the city’s maritime history. Mostly it is the absence of ornament that makes the design so successful. The theatricality of the setting drove the team’s minimalist approach. No feature stands above waist height, and even railings were omitted to provide clear sight lines across the water (a decision that was not without detractors). “Complete openness is essential for activities, and the quay’s use, which is still safe, is rooted in the habits of its users,” André Nadeau, a landscape architect and principal at OPTION aménagement, wrote in an e-mail. (Nadeau’s responses were translated from French.)

Inspired by the works of Piet MonOPTION aménagement’s redesign drian, modular benches are grouped makes only a few moves, but every in small islands interspersed with one of them strengthens the con- voids of treated spruce planks and

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Leymus arenarius and clustered toward the middle to provide space for walking and fishing, as well as small-scale concerts. Because the breakwater is especially popular at sunset, lampposts were replaced with low, porthole-like lights around the perimeter and light fixtures that were integrated into the benches.

Over the past two years, the modest space has become a destination for everyone from local fishers to concertgoers, and in 2017, the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects gave Rimouski Breakwater its highest honor, the Jury’s Award of Excellence, a prize given to just one project per year. “We were very surprised to win such honors,” Nadeau told LAM. “In our opinion, the modesty of the initiative and budget made us outliers. To receive such a distinction is a good lesson for everyone.

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This year, the Award of Excellence in Student Collaboration goes to the design/build of an observation platform at a coastal wetland in Texas. A project winning an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning suggests coastal strategies to absorb and divert sea-level rise along the Gulf of Mexico. In the category of Communications, an Honor Award goes to a proposal to make three-dimensional maps more accessible to the blind. Each of the winning projects this year shows a commitment to innovation in design and rigor in analysis. This year’s student work is evidence that the new genThe jury for this year’s student awards conveyed eration of landscape architects is not shying away its admiration for the ways in which the students’ from the challenges ahead. projects addressed complex problems. One juror commented, “I feel so excited about the future of A full list of team members and contributors for our profession. For the longest time design and each project can be found on the ASLA website, sustainability were separate things. They’ve been www.asla.org. knitted so seamlessly in so many of these projects.” are tackling multilayered challenges in locations from Mongolia to Haiti to Illinois with thoughtful attention to site-specific solutions for cultural, social, and environmental issues. Many of the projects mesh ingenuity with a pragmatic focus on issues that engage the profession on a global scale. Where students addressed the increasingly evident topic of climate change, for example, their strategies were also often applicable to scenarios beyond the scope of the intended site.

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his extensively illustrated manual for improving water quality in southeast Tennessee is “an incredibly substantive publication,” the jury said. “The students should consider turning this into a book. I want this book!” said one juror. It is needed. A third of Tennessee streams, the students note, cannot support healthy aquatic wildlife; some 40 percent of the state’s streams are not fit for human recreation. HydroLIT breaks down Tennessee’s water challenges into five categories: development, transportation, ecological protection, waste management, and education. It then offers mitigation strategies (for the present and future) derived from both current scientific research and local expertise.

SARAH NEWTON, STUDENT ASLA; LINDSEY BRADLEY, STUDENT ASLA; ERICA PHANNAMVONG, STUDENT ASLA; KYRA WU, STUDENT ASLA UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FACULTY ADVISER BRADFORD COLLETT, ASLA

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AGRO PELAGO FOODSCAPES FOR THE FUTURE

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hat if landscape architects could work as well with the sea as they do with the land?

That is the premise of Agro-Pelago, a video from the University of British Columbia about future foodscapes. After rising seas swamp extant agricultural areas with saltwater, the project suggests, giant floating farm platforms could supply a hungry population with harvests of salttolerant crops, shellfish, seaweed, and conventional produce, while wind turbines spin overhead to produce power. People will visit the platforms to watch their food grow, and even share it at communal tables on the site. “This is a place to share stories and skills,” the film’s narrator says of the floating farms, “while we nourish the land we soon realize nourishes us, too.” The jurors were impressed.

“This is one of those issues that is going to be in front of us pretty quickly,” commented one juror.

“We’ve got to grab this and run.”

JACLYN KALOCZI, STUDENT ASLA UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FACULTY ADVISERS SUSAN HERRINGTON; MARTIN LEWIS

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URBAN LANDSCAPE METRICS: RE IMAGINING THE CLASS FIELD TRIP IN NEW YORK CITY’S GREAT PARKS

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his booklet is the product of 16 Penn State landscape architecture students who each selected a park in New York City, from sprawling Central Park to tiny Paley Park, and spent an entire semester studying their chosen site to understand it on a “physical, conceptual, experiential, programmatic, and social understanding” level. They visited the parks, drew them digitally, researched their histories, and also analyzed them as functional urban spaces. The students discovered that some of the parks lacked even basic site plans—so they created their own. One goal of the project was to create a database of parks to work as a model for future park makers. The jurors were enthusiastic: “The detail, the history of every site—how much work went into this!”

QUINN PULLEN, ASSOCIATE ASLA THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISERS CHRISTOPHER COUNTS; MARIA COUNTS, ASLA

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TACTILE MAPTILE: WORKING TOWARD INCLUSIVE CARTOGRAPHY

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actile maps with raised surfaces have long been used by people with visual impairment to help negotiate pedestrian routes.

But the maps are expensive, and might not exist for the particular places a user wants to explore.

This project out of the University of Washington proposes a web application that would let anyone create a three-dimensional map of any given area.

The data generated could be downloaded and rendered on a 3-D printer to create tactile maps that are quick, easy, inexpensive—and exactly what the user needs. The jurors praised the project, which one thought had utility beyond simply helping the blind: “I thought it was very interesting to take raised surfaces as an analytical design, as a teaching tool, with you out into the field.”

JESSICA HAMILTON, STUDENT ASLA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FACULTY ADVISERS ANAT CASPI; BEN SPENSER; THAÏSA WAY, ASLA

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nown for diversity in migratory bird populations, the project site is situated near a coastal marshland at Goose Island State Park, managed by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD).

It’s a particular hot spot for endangered whooping cranes. Since sight lines into the marshland are limited by a slough and wetland scrub, an observation platform was designed and built by a team of 11 architecture and two landscape architecture students in an advanced design studio who collaborated with TPWD and park staff. The platform’s accessibility ramp for bird-watching and wetland education is obscured by a six-foot wall that spans 90 feet. This wall was built using materials that are durable in the salty environment—pressure-treated lumber and weathering steel—and designed so that gaps allow sight lines and fauna to pass through the structure. Native species such as bluestem grasses surround the platform and are used in discussing the stewardship of wetland habitats by TPWD staff. “It’s not trying to be a statement. It’s just rising quietly up,” said one jury member.

NEIVE TIERNEY, STUDENT ASLA; ERIC ALEXANDER; SARA BENSALEM; MITCH FLORA; HANNAH FROSSARD; JAMES HOLLIDAY; HANNAH IVANCIE; JOSH LEGER; MAX MAHAFFEY; QIANHUI MIAO, STUDENT ASLA; OLAKUNLE ONI; SEBASTIAN ROJAS; MICHELLE SIFRE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN FACULTY ADVISER COLEMAN COKER

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THE WHITE HOUSE KITCHEN GARDEN

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even years after Michelle Obama’s White House kitchen garden was first installed, students visited to observe current site usages and determine the best way to improve and preserve it, with the final design as a nod to the motto E pluribus unum (Out of many, one). The students designed and made an arbor to mark the now-formalized entry sequence of engraved bluestone pavers leading to the newly established heart of the garden.

Here a table and benches— fabricated by the design team— reside, acting as a gathering space that allows for optimal views of the garden. Leaning on the motto for the garden enhancements, the arbor and table set were constructed using wood from around the country that represented the “diversity of climatic zones, ecological communities, and agricultural and craft traditions” around the nation. One juror lauded the level of craft as “remarkable.”

SCOTT SHINTON, ASSOCIATE ASLA; JOSH ARONSON; ANNA CAI; STEPHEN GROTZ; MARY MCCALL, ASSOCIATE ASLA; OWEN WEINSTEIN UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FACULTY ADVISERS JULIE BARGMANN, ASLA; TANYA DENCKLA COBB; MELISSA GOLDMAN; ELIZABETH MEYER, FASLA; NANCY TAKAHASHI, ASLA

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FOLLOW THE WATER: RAIN GARDEN AS DIAGRAM

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outed as a living diagram of green infrastructure, the Follow the Water project at Mississippi State University’s Starkville campus— created by a mix of landscape architecture, graphic design, and civil engineering students— explains the process of a rain garden using graphic visuals set up throughout the project site. Water from the gutter is collected in the 2,000-gallon cistern for use on a nearby vegetable bed. When it overflows, the water spills into a basin bisected by four weirs before being absorbed into the ground. This flow is emphasized by arrows and labels. Each weir is marked by transparent plates that represent the four major functions of a rain garden—delay, cool, absorb, and filter—with accompanying dots of varying sizes and colors to illustrate these concepts. The garden is accompanied by wall diagrams and an informational pamphlet geared toward differing levels of education, age, and professional backgrounds. One juror noted, “If you don’t know anything, you can approach this and learn something. And if you do know, you can still get something good out of it.”

ABBEY WALLACE, STUDENT ASLA; JOANNA BAUER; ANAS BDOUR, ASSOCIATE ASLA; JESSICA CAMP, STUDENT ASLA; WILL CARSON; JOHN-TAYLOR CORLEY, STUDENT ASLA; AMY FARRAR; HEATHER HARDMAN; JAMES HUGH, STUDENT ASLA; MORGAN LINNETT; HENGYANG MA, ASSOCIATE ASLA; AMER MAHADIN, ASSOCIATE ASLA; MADDIE MARASCALCO; EDITH MARTINEZ; JENN MCFADDEN; LESLIE MOMA, STUDENT ASLA; ABBEY RIGDON; LAURYN RODY; HAYLEE UPTON; MOHAN ZANG, ASSOCIATE ASLA; ANNA ZOLLICOFFER MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISERS CORY GALLO; GNANESWAR GUDE; SUZANNE POWNEY; BRIAN TEMPLETON, ASLA

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RIDGE LANE

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espite its continued growth and the enormous pressure for housing, the city of San Francisco contains more than 1,500 vacant lots—an area half the size of Golden Gate Park. This project for Ridge Lane in the Ingleside neighborhood incorporates a grassroots approach to revitalizing five individual parcels, each just 15 feet wide but ranging in length from 76 feet to 230 feet. Originally plotted as a street, this “orphan space” between houses has served as an informal path for neighbors, but was also prone to crime.

Students worked with a core group of local residents to reconceive Ridge Lane as a community asset, beginning with the westernmost parcel, which given its

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geography is valuable butterfly habitat. A concrete path, inspired by the venation of butterfly wings, is flanked by native and locally adapted plantings and gabion benches. An adaptable design module was developed for use in future phases, which are expected to commence next year. Jurors commented on the process.

“They took it all the way through,” one said. “They even went back and did postoccupancy work.”

NAHAL SOHBATI, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA ACADEMY OF ART UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISERS HEATHER CLENDENIN, AFFILIATE ASLA; MARY MUSZYNSKI, ASLA; WRIGHT YANG

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EARTH AND SKY GARDEN: A THERAPEUTIC GARDEN FOR THE PUGET SOUND VETERANS AFFAIRS HOSPITAL

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n existing but little-used courtyard is transformed into a therapeutic garden for patients and hospital staff, offering respite as well as views of nature. Divided into a Sky Room and an Earth Room, the garden refers to the Pacific Northwest landscape through the use of native plants and materials. Informed by conversations with veterans as well as occupational therapists, universal design principles are creatively employed—handrails curve up to become the support for a green wall, which itself is wheelchair accessible—ensuring access for all users. The jury was impressed by the project’s ambition. “The idea to work with this very deserving population of veterans, and to work through a very challenging space,” said one juror. “I had to remind myself several times—this is a student project.”

ESTHER (GINA) KIM, STUDENT ASLA; DOMINIQUE ALVIAR, ASSOCIATE ASLA; AARON BEATTIE; COLLEEN BRENNAN, STUDENT ASLA; BYRON BRINK, ASSOCIATE ASLA; TYLER J. BRITTAIN; JAEN CERVANTES; STEVE COCCI; SHAN GAO, STUDENT ASLA; SHUYI GAO, STUDENT ASLA; JENA GERRY; PETER HUGH; FERN HUYNH, ASSOCIATE ASLA; JACQUELINE KIM; YAE LEE, STUDENT ASLA; OLMSTED MARIZOL; ARISA NAKAMURA, ASSOCIATE ASLA; EKATERINA NAZAROVA; LYNA NGET, ASSOCIATE ASLA; THUONG NGUYEN; EUNJEE OH, ASSOCIATE ASLA; JAE JUNG PARK, STUDENT ASLA; PEDRO POPOCA; ARYUNA POSELENOVA, ASSOCIATE ASLA; HILARY RATLIFF; HAYDEN TAUSCHER, STUDENT ASLA; ARTHUR UNG, ASSOCIATE ASLA; ROYCE UTTERBACK; TIFFANY WONG; (ALEXIS) JIANGHEZI ZHENG, ASSOCIATE ASLA; YUTONG ZHU UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FACULTY ADVISERS SCOTT JONES; PATRICK MCCLEARY; JEREMY WATSON; DANIEL WINTERBOTTOM, FASLA

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AN OUTDOOR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR AND WITH A PRIMARY SCHOOL COMMUNITY IN BANGLADESH

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or a primary school in Raipura, 80 miles east of Dhaka, the largest city in Bangladesh, the redesign of a barren schoolyard was conceived with students to enhance the learning experience. A series of “learning areas,” including a brick amphitheater built by students and small bamboo huts, provide new opportunities for instruction and play, as well as gathering places for the community. Focus groups conducted after completion indicate that the project has had a positive impact on student performance and truancy. One juror said, “You just look at the before and after, and the difference this will make in children’s lives year after year—it brings tears to your eyes.”

MATLUBA KHAN, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH FACULTY ADVISERS SIMON BELL; SARAH MCGEOWN; EVA SILVEIRINHA DE OLIVEIRA

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FAIRY TALES TO FOREST

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ethodological clarity and welldefined results are the hallmarks of this project, which begins with the question, “What role does the forest play in the story?” Recognizing that existing programs to engage young people in landscape stewardship often neglect kids’ preconceptions of the landscape, this project analyzed children’s literature as an important source of early impressions. Using books, the student investigator developed a series of spatial characteristics overlaid with expressive qualities that can aid in developing typologies for more engaging forests in the future. “It opens a door for lots of different ways of thinking about how forests impact on an emotional level—children or not,” said one juror.

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WATER AND THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF ILLINOIS

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ith its 27 million acres of arable land, the state of Illinois produces tons of nonpoint-source (and thus less-regulated) agricultural pollution that flows into the Mississippi River. Pursuing a statewide goal of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer pollution by 45 percent, this project examines Illinois’s major river watersheds individually and finds ways to slow or stop the infiltration of these harmful chemicals. The design solutions cover a range of hard and soft infrastructure, including hardscape retaining walls, wetland buffer zones, and water-retaining topography. Throughout, these prescriptions remake agricultural terrains to be less like mono-functional behemoths and more like approachable, diverse landscapes. The jury appreciated the project’s scope as well as the fine-grained approach to the research. “It has some pretty specific data about the individual river systems. The detail of biodiversity of each of the systems was very impressive,” said one juror.

JAQUELINE CARMONA, STUDENT ASLA; NATHAN BURKE, STUDENT ASLA; YIZHEN DING, STUDENT ASLA; MARIA ESKER, STUDENT ASLA; LAYNE KNOCHE, STUDENT ASLA; CAMERON LETTERLY, STUDENT ASLA; APRIL PITTS, STUDENT ASLA; CESAR ROJAS-CAMPOS, STUDENT ASLA; ZI HAO SONG, STUDENT ASLA; YUXI WAN, STUDENT ASLA; XIAODONG YANG, STUDENT ASLA; WEI ZING; WANHUI ZUO UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN FACULTY ADVISER KATHERINE KRASZEWSKA

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DESERT RIVER WATER CONSERVATION

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long the Tarim River in the Taklamakan Desert of northwestern China, water extracted for irrigation has sapped the ecosystem of its vitality and cut off smaller tributaries from the river.

This project finds ways of conserving water in this intensely arid basin, potentially providing the region with a more lucrative suite of cash crops to grow. The plan takes advantage of the area’s wet- and dry-season climate by installing underground reservoirs to collect moisture when meltwater is flowing from the mountains and to release it (with the aid of remote sensors) through irrigation pipes when the weather is dry. From there, it’s an intricate dance of crop rotation schedules that minimize water consumption. “I think this is very responsive to its settings,” said one juror.

“There’s clear, hard data, and you can find it.”

ZHUOFAN WAN, STUDENT ASLA UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY ADVISER ROBERT M. WRIGHT, ASLA

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DISASTER AUTOPSY MODEL

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ver the course of less than a week in August 2016, an intense rainstorm dumped three times more water on Baton Rouge, Louisiana, than Hurricane Katrina had. Subsequent flooding damaged nearly 150,000 homes. To prevent a similar flooding scenario in the future, the Disaster Autopsy Model begins with a network of weir barriers bordered by bottomland forest that can absorb floodwaters. More than 1,000 ponds that dot Baton Rouge are woven together with underground pipes or aboveground bioswales, forming a flexible catchment basin.

Pylons that offer emergency flood warnings, power, and wayfinding when storm clouds darken can also send signals to flood control gates based on the capacity of catchment basins. “The light towers that guide you out—you’d never think of that unless you had to find your way out in a boat,” said one juror. “I’m from there, and I’ve done that.”

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his project examines the dangers posed by climate change for flood-prone League City, Texas, on Galveston Bay near the Gulf of Mexico, but its array of water barriers makes it a great resource for any place looking to stave off sea-level rise. “I like the transferability,” said one juror. “It’s a tool kit. You can take it anywhere.” To deal with flood risks from sea-level rise and hurricanes, the plan identifies soft and hard mitigation infrastructure that absorbs and slows the advance of water (sloped trails, dredged trenches, wetlands, and permeable pavement) and blocks it outright (elevated highway floodgates, flood walls, and parking structure berms). These strategies are applied to an extensive riparian park bordering Clear Creek and used to pursue three broad goals for flood prevention: decreasing impermeable surfaces, adding absorptive greenscapes, and capturing runoff.

ZIXU QIAO, STUDENT ASLA TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISER GALEN NEWMAN, ASLA

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REVIVING THE 30 METERS

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he Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is the world’s largest hydroelectric power source. Since its opening, it has brought economic development to the region, but it has also created havoc for local ecosystems, forced the resettlement of more than a million people, and caused dramatic water level fluctuations of up to 30 meters. Planning for landscapes that can withstand this 30-meter variance and remain productive is the focus of this proposal. Dredged bioretention cells help collect sediment washed down the river, reclaiming land. Habitats for fish are built along the shoreline, and luminous poles and other remote sensor devices forecast the water quality and track the locations of endangered fish. “I thought this was a really strong project from the analysis level, through the planning, down into the realistic and compelling sitespecific proposals,” said one juror.

TIANJIAO YAN, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY ADVISER JUSTINE HOLZMAN, ASLA

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LANDSCAPE IN EVOLUTION: CREATING A RESILIENT NOMADIC LANDSCAPE FROM BOTTOM UP IN HULUNBUIR

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ather than offer a prescriptive top-down landscape plan for the Inner Mongolia region of China, this proposal suggests a new set of bottom-up relationships in a place that is undergoing fundamental changes in its people’s relationship to the land. Populated by nomadic herders for hundreds of years, Inner Mongolia has seen its settled populations boom since the dawn of the 20th century. New static agricultural and industrial landscape uses have brought environmental degradation such as deforestation and pollution. To put the region on more solid footing, the designers suggest varied patterns of intercropping and reforestation. Mine trenches are converted into pond habitats, and wind energy farms spring up on broad plains in the place of dirty, coal-fired power plants. Jurors admired the way the plan offers solutions but also “respects the Mongolian people.”

JINGYI LIU, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA; NATING LI, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA; ERJI SHANG, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA; MINGRUI WANG, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA; MENGHAN ZHANG, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA; JUELIN ZHOU, STUDENT AFFILIATE ASLA BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISER QING LIN

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FORESTS ON THE EDGE: PLANT BASED ECONOMIES DRIVING ECOLOGICAL RENEWAL IN HAITI

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n Haiti, 98 percent of forests have been harvested, leaving the countryside bare and depleted, subject to unsustainable farming as well as damaging winds and erosion. Forests on the Edge identifies plant groups that can be swapped in and out to provide economic resources and respites for the degraded soil. “Productive” plants (like the kapok tree) offer firewood, lumber, and oil-bearing nuts and fruit.

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and provide habitats for beekeeping. The plan takes the traditional practice of planting live fences to delineate crop fields and expands it, urging the use of trees like the physic nut that can work as windbreaks and hold onto soil amid steep slopes as they grow into linear forests. “If there was ever a place that needed a landscape architecture solution, it’s Haiti,” said one juror. “You could take this to any number of organizations tomorrow and have a plan.”

CHRISTINE FACELLA, STUDENT ASLA CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK FACULTY ADVISERS CATHERINE SEAVITT NORDENSON, ASLA; MATTHEW SEIBERT, ASSOCIATE ASLA

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rent to a younger, foreign population, one juror: “If this was built, I would and the communities have largely love wandering this neighborhood dispersed. This new plan proposes as a visitor.” to bring them back by creating public spaces out of existing vacant lots and green areas. These spaces, say WILLIAM BAUMGARDNER, STUDENT the designers, “could host the meet- ASLA; CHENYUAN GU, ASSOCIATE ASLA; DANDI ZHANG ings of each village and allow for an HARVARD UNIVERSITY intimate neighborhood-scale space GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN where residents could rest during FACULTY ADVISERS ROK OMAN; the day and gather at night.” Noted DAVID RUBIN, ASLA; SPELA VIDECNIK

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INVISIBLE WORKS: A PUBLIC INTRODUCTION TO THE DYNAMIC LIFE OF WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE

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his innovative project embraces the wastewater cycle as an opportunity for creating new forms of engagement in public space. The site is the Metro Wastewater Treatment Plant near Saint Paul, Minnesota. Identifying and revealing distinct stages of the 15-hour wastewater treatment process allowed the designer to propose ways of highlighting and augmenting how the public views the often hidden systems on which modern life depends.

The jury admired the project’s “strong graphic and conceptual framework” and its “great range of investigation,” and noted how the designer “engaged so well with the technical aspects.” Said one juror, “I’ve rarely seen an LA taking the lead on wastewater and sewers. I think this is very progressive for landscape architecture.” Observed another, “I usually don’t think of this kind of facility as a destination. But this really could be.”

BRIDGET AYERS LOOBY, ASSOCIATE ASLA UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FACULTY ADVISERS BLAINE BROWNELL; JOSEPH FAVOUR, ASLA; MATTHEW TUCKER

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ike many towns in the Hudson River Valley, the once-vital industrial site of Kingston Point in Kingston, New York, has declined since its early 20th century heyday and now faces a new challenge from climate change. Increased flooding and sea-level rise will eventually inundate Kingston’s waterfront, but this project proposes a way to accept and adjust to the changing coastline in a way that revitalizes the waterfront’s cultural and natural character.

The tripartite approach of Adapt, Reinforce, and Return imagines each section of the waterfront as a distinct zone over the next 100 years. “It didn’t shy away from climate change and sea-level rise,” commented one juror. “They said, ‘OK, this is what’s happening; this is how we can deal with it.’”

HONG GAO, STUDENT ASLA; QIANLI FENG, STUDENT ASLA; LUYAO KONG, STUDENT ASLA CORNELL UNIVERSITY FACULTY ADVISER JOSHUA CERRA, ASLA

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ilan’s canals were once the circulatory system for the city’s economy and urban development. As the canal network becomes obsolete as transportation infrastructure, this proposal envisions it as an urban armature for a new park that knits together aspects of the regional landscape for a more vibrant and ecologically adaptive city. Jurors found the project “elegantly and clearly presented in terms of the nature of the spaces.” Attention to the materiality of the site and landscape also garnered praise. “They thought about materials, they thought about how structures stand up. They made beautiful choices,” said one juror.

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CONCRETE NURSE LOGS: SPAWNING BIODIVERSITY FROM BALLARD’S CENTURY OLD LOCKS

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he Pacific Northwest’s Ballard Locks act as a lever between the saltwater of Puget Sound and the freshwater of Lake Washington, but its infrastructure function belies its attractions for cyclists, pedestrians, and boaters. However, as the designer notes, “Ballard Locks is an engineering feat, but a failure of science.” It is forced into the landscape and continues to disrupt the region’s habitat and ecology. The design proposal argues that a concrete structure, made to retain its form and purpose over time, could be designed to become—through decay and breaching—a site of flowering biodiversity. “I would show this to my students because it does things that are novel,” said one of the jurors. “Many projects have timelines: this happened, that happened. This takes chronology forward.”

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CREATING DYNAMIC HYBRID: TOWARD LANDSCAPE INNOVATION IN A SMART CITY

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This project takes Kashiwa-no-ha in Japan as its site, and develops a landscape plan that is flexible, environmentally sustainable, and fits in with the culture of a newly planned “smart” town site for an aging demographic. Drawing on the site’s history as a horse breeding center, the designer developed transparent layers of use focused on urban agriculture and multiple purpose. Jurors admired the attention to spatial organization in this project and recognized it for “the strongest social sustainability program” among the submissions.

“There need to be spaces that acknowledge that Japan is aging and has a very low birth rate. There is also an effort to bring different ages together,” said a juror. “They did a really nice job with the spatial organization.”

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THE TURNING POINT: A FOCUSED DESIGN STUDY FOR THE GOWANUS CANAL IN BROOKLYN, NY

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his project embraces the opportunities afforded by the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted waterways in the country.

Designated an EPA Superfund site in 2010, the Gowanus is to undergo a long process of excavation, dredging, and capping beginning in the near future. The designer selected the site around an illegally filled turning basin as an opportunity to invite the public into the remediation process, including viewing platforms during the excavation, the installation of a salt marsh, and designed extensions into the community. The jury appreciated the “multiple scales” of the project. “They looked at city context, historic national context, then they brought it down to good, site-scale design,” said one juror. “There’s a thread through this whole project that the public deserves to be part of its cleanup.”

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BY KASSANDRA D. BRYANT, STUDENT ASLA; ZACH MORTICE; JENNIFER REUT; AND MAGGIE ZACKOWITZ

PARKS THE NEW MALLS? You Warren AREmight think so, given the success of Klyde Park by OJB Landscape Architecture, a wildly popular, amenity-packed five-acre deck park over a freeway in Dallas. The project is the Award of Excellence winner in General Design, and it represents, in one sense, the apotheosis of the kind of parks that have become the norm rather than the exception across the country. A feat of engineering, both civil and social, Klyde Warren Park provides the catalysts for real estate development and sustainability programming that landscape architecture firms offer to cities. Giving the people what they want, as well as what they need, was the key to many of the awardwinning projects that flourished in unlikely spaces.

The Analysis and Planning category and the Research category have long been the projection of the profession’s aspirations and anxieties. In the former, winning projects focused on environmental and cultural sustainability, community revitalization, and coastal resilience. In the latter, the presence of climate change and sea-level rise adaptations, plant resiliency, and water management strategies signals the acceptance of a future that will change rapidly and unpredictably.

With so much focus on marshaling and conserving existing resources against rapid change, it is perhaps fitting that the Award of Excellence in Communications went to a website primarily concerned with documenting the past—the Digital Library of Landscape Architecture, an evolving digital archive of historic designed landscapes mapped worldwide.

With so much in flux, the ASLA awards allow us to take stock of how we have arrived at this moment, as much as where the profession may yet take us.

Projects of great ambition, regardless of the scope or budget, and audacious design moves were evident in many of the 204 General Design submissions, far and away the most popular category among the 465 total submissions for 2017. Residential Design, the backbone of many firms, demonstrated the profession’s particular facility at integrating challenges of A full list of team members and contributors for each site, scale, and program, while delivering beautifully project can be found on the ASLA website, www.asla.org. detailed work around the heart of the private realm.

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PROFESSIONAL AWARDS JURY CHAIR ELIZABETH MILLER, FASLA NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C.

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JOINING THE JURY FOR THE SELECTION OF THE RESEARCH CATEGORY:

M. ELEN DEMING, ASLA UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA–CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS (FOR THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION)

CHARLENE LEBLEU, FASLA AUBURN UNIVERSITY AUBURN, ALABAMA (FOR THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATORS IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE)

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eni, Vidi, Didici,” proclaims the Latin slogan beneath the logo on the Digital Library of Landscape Architecture History (DiLiLAH) home page: “I came, I saw, I learned.” College students’ learning was the original point of the project, developed by Benjamin George, ASLA, an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at Utah State University, for his History of Landscape Architecture class. Now anyone visiting the DiLiLAH website (www.dililah.org) can enjoy 40 (so far—more are planned) virtual tours of historic landscapes around the world: first by locating the site via satellite map, then zooming in. Each click-and-drag panoramic view is stitched together from as many as 20 images, then connected through the virtual tour interface, which includes navigational elements and information hot spots. “It provides an opportunity to deepen the users’ perspective as a resource,” noted one juror. “Their knowledge of these places will grow.”

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ECOLOGY AS THE INSPIRATION FOR A PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY PARK

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resident George W. Bush’s deep love for Texas is reflected in the design for the grounds of his central Dallas presidential library. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has transformed 15 acres of formerly derelict and degraded urban space into a hilly park of sustainable landscapes representative of different areas of the state, including Blackland Prairie (once Dallas’s primary landscape, though little remains), Post Oak Savanna, Cross Timbers forest, and more.

The book The Landscapes of the George W. Bush Presidential Center uses beautiful photography and smart graphics to tell the story of the inspiration, construction, and sourcing (finding so many native species proved challenging) of the facility’s landscapes. The jury appreciated how well the project communicates both the landscape design and the scientific approach. “It’s hard to find outreach to the general public,” said one.

“And this one does.”

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awrence Halprin would have turned 101 years old this year. The Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin by the Cultural Landscape Foundation is a multifaceted retrospective representing five decades of the landscape architect’s work for a general audience. It consists of a traveling photographic exhibition of 55 commissioned images,

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prin’s legacy visible and valued, and to promote a dialogue that will lead to informed stewardship.”

Jurors called the project “excellent” and noted that “it communicates really well.”

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a 92-page gallery guide, and an accompanying website that includes a video oral history featuring Halprin himself. Many of Halprin’s significant projects have been demolished. Others, such as Capitol Towers in Sacramento, California, are threatened. The goal of this project, the organizers say, is to raise awareness and “make Hal-

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art monograph, part manual, part manifesto” describes the richly illustrated book by the landscape architect Kate Orff, ASLA. Its objective is to reconceive “urban landscape design as a form of activism” and offer a look inside the philosophy of combining ecological awareness and smart design that drives Orff’s firm, SCAPE. Projects (organized under chapters titled “Revive,” “Cohabit,” “Engage,” and “Scale”) include oyster regeneration in Brooklyn’s polluted Gowanus Canal, a self-guided urban wildlife safari following the route of a New York City subway line, and an extensive Lexington, Kentucky, public space built along a buried stream channel that honors the region’s karst geology while replacing what was once a wastecarrying canal. Jurors noted that Toward an Urban Ecology “includes a lot of tools we’re going to be using for sea-level rise. There are some very innovative directions in here.”

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lot of things he did were forerunners of our environmentalism today,” said one juror of Jens Jensen. Now, a documentary by Carey Lundin, Jens Jensen: The Living Green, tells the story of the legendary Danish-born landscape architect and his naturalistic, specifically American park making in the early 20th century. As Jensen is quoted in the film explaining his Chicago parks: “If you can’t bring the city dweller to the country, then you must bring the country to the city.” Archival photos and footage are blended with commentary by historians to give context to Jensen’s midwestern work. The discovery of long-lost recordings of Jensen himself several years into the project helped the filmmakers bring their subject to life.

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CHAMPIONING CONNECTIVITY: HOW AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION CAPTURED GLOBAL ATTENTION AND INSPIRED INNOVATION IN WILDLIFE CROSSING DESIGN hen roads cut across animals’ habitats, animals die—and people do, too.

The Animal Road Crossing Project (ARC) is working to save them both with “an interdisciplinary partnership seeking to inspire new thinking, new methods, new materials, and new solutions for the next generation of wildlife crossing structures.” In 2010, ARC’s International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition brought together 39 international teams of landscape architects, engineers, transportation specialists, and others.

The winning design, a forested bridge spanning Interstate 70 near Vail, Colorado, was submitted by HNTB and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

Now in its postcompetition phase as a nonprofit partnership (arc-solutions.org), ARC’s mission is to raise awareness of the need for animal crossings and the reconnection of fragmented landscapes. One juror commented of the project: “I thought this was terrific and should be in the hands of every state department of transportation.”

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his transdisciplinary, iterative research project based in a rapidly urbanizing archipelago in the Arctic Ocean captivated the jury for its “elegant narrative” and “compelling” presentation.

Jurors called it “beautiful,” “fluid,” and “emotive,” and recognized the research agenda, an exploration of future scenarios dominated by climate change, as a critical investigation for the profession. In conjunction with the Oslo Center for Urban and Landscape Studies’s Future North effort, the team mapped both the past and present, integrating the cultural, physical, topological, material, and documentary characteristics in a seamless presentation. The project narrative demonstrated a key understanding of the role of context, drawing on environmental historiography and critical geography. It situates the project within a cultural history of mapping that recognizes that

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no research project is objective and that every narrative “sanctions some voices over others,” with important consequences. Drawing this idea out further, the team considered the tensions between the data displayed in plan and in section, a dialogue that is ongoing and productive, if unresolved. The jury lauded the project team for eschewing easy answers, particularly as the region is such a significant site for the study of the impact of climate change. “An exquisite marriage of art, science, and education,” said one juror.

KATHLEEN JOHN-ALDER, ASLA, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND TROMSØ ACADEMY, TROMSØ, NORWAY

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“Having a model that quantitatively evaluates sites for climate change and related issues we’re going to see in the future is really important. We’re showing people a tool that’s available to everyone and can be adapted in many ways,” said one of the jurors.

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he jury called this “classic case study analysis” the “wave of the future for federal agencies in assessing cultural landscapes.” The research team collaborated with the National Park Service to develop an analytical framework and vulnerability assessment matrix for evaluating impacts and compiling climate change projection data for 164 cultural landscapes in 43 parks across the NPS Pacific West Region. The matrix, which the jury lauded for its many future applications

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SEEDING GREEN ROOFS FOR GREATER BIODIVERSITY AND LOWER COSTS

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reen roof construction technology has come a long way, but the profession remains reliant on varieties of Sedum despite their lessthan-optimal biodiversity profile. This research project demonstrates that native grasses can be economically and ecologically sustainable in green roof scenarios. Looking at variables such as plant species, speed of coverage, and mode of planting or seeding, the research team determined that some native grasses— when installed via pelletized seeding—could thrive and meet the coverage requirements within the two-year standard. This approach reduced planting costs by about $5 per square foot. The jury lauded the project’s utility for the profession, calling it “very applicable” and “research I can use tomorrow.” One juror noted the project’s potential scale: “If we find a strategy that can be multiplied by a million, we can have a huge impact. And this is a strategy that could be multiplied by a million.”

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RENDERING LOS ANGELES GREEN: THE GREENWAYS TO RIVERS ARTERIAL STORMWATER SYSTEM GRASS

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ong before the city was the sprawling pavement garden it is today, Los Angeles had a river that was fed by seasonal rains and snowmelt through a network of tributaries. Now essentially invisible, this tributary network is the organizing framework for the Greenways to Rivers Arterial Stormwater System (GRASS) project, a tool to help planners manage the city’s stormwater. The stormwater greenways have many goals, including managing and filtering polluted stormwater, reducing the city’s reliance on imported water, and providing green open space connections through the neighborhoods, as well as educational opportunities for local residents. The GISbased Phase I provided the technical analysis, and the current iteration incorporates neighborhood and political priorities into the planning process and integrates the impacts into the process. The jury called this preproposal “refreshing” and admired the “clearly stated research problem.” “What I liked about this project was the ease with which it toggled between qualitative and quantitative procedures,” said one juror.

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THE ECOLOGICAL ATLAS PROJECT his project assimilates information about South Florida’s ecology into a dynamic and engaging format that is legible to a wide swath of public and professional audiences. This beautifully produced and visually coherent project uses mapping and pattern recognition to communicate the temporality and interdependency of living systems, and is meant to act as a model for a way of approaching and communicating

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large amounts of data. Jurors called this project “very transferable” to clients and the public and admired the way the graphic design translated complex research into “easily understood” forms.

“We need a tool like this to communicate with our clients. I can see myself using this,” said a juror.

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STORM + SAND + SEA + STRAND BARRIER ISLAND RESILIENCY PLANNING FOR GALVESTON ISLAND STATE PARK

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alveston Island State Park was a popular recreation destination until Hurricane Ike devastated the fragile Texas barrier island in 2008. Though the damage was overwhelming, it created important opportunities for planning. Frequent storm surges and sea-level rise are the twin engines of Studio Outside’s 50-year master plan for the 2,000-acre state park.

The design firm recognized the park’s main strength—a singular bay-to-beach experience—as the scaffolding for restoring its ecology, empowering the client, and educating visitors about the past, present, and future of the coastline.

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Using predictive models to generate high-, medium-, and low-probability scenarios, the team used a middle scenario of 22 percent land loss by 2060 to guide the plan. Strategies included restoring the dunes for habitat, aggregating development, scaling overnight accommodations by impact, and siting a new Discovery Center back in the bay, where it could draw new visitors and be a model for sustainable building and further research. The jury lauded this project for its far-reaching

influence and applicability: “It takes a really problematic area and makes it a real asset that works for the city. The planning process is laid out very well in everything they’ve presented to lead you to what you get going through this place.”

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his plan, developed for the historic landscape of the artist Frederic Church’s 1872 house in upstate New York, considers not just how to interpret the landscape as a linear narrative, but how to activate the whole landscape and bring and the historic site,” said one of the jurors. “We it into an equitable relationship with the historic need to develop the context of our historic landresidence. Church was a major American land- scapes without overdesigning them.” scape painter of the Hudson River School, and the landscape of Olana reflects his sophisticated understanding of landscape character as well NELSON BYRD WOLTZ LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS as his global travels. The strategic plan offers NEW YORK THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP AND THE NEW YORK opportunities for greater audience engagement STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND through the siting of a new visitor center, and HISTORIC PRESERVATION, CLIENTS studies of land use, soil, hydrology, topography, and viewsheds inform the interpretation. The jury called the plan “very sensitive,” and admired the deep research that backed the designer’s judicious hand. “Where the landscape architects made the intervention for the parking and visitor center really honors the historic nature of the buildings

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he master plan for this 23-acre landfill does not have small ambitions. With proximity to the downtown of Louisville, Kentucky, the Waterfront Botanical Gardens site is designed to achieve LEED Platinum, SITES, and Living Building Challenge certification while creating a new public amenity with substantive education and research components. The firm faced challenges (aside from the site’s 75-year use as a landfill) balancing the creation of a sense of local place with the desire to be a national and global model for sustainable design. Research delved into the land use history, soil, and hydrology of the site but also its transit and transportation opportunities.

The team developed a series of thematic spaces that will work at several scales and functions, and the jury was particularly impressed by the integration of architecture, engineering, and landscape. “An interesting structure is inserted without destroying the landscape. So many of these projects are form-driven, but this one blurs that line,” said a juror.

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t would be hard to overstate the importance of Pullman, Illinois, on Chicago’s South Side.

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a long-standing history of preservation advocacy.

In 2015, President Obama designated Pullman a national monument, thereby ushering in a new phase in the town’s future. Working with the National Parks Conservation Association and the American Institute of Architects Chicago, the design team developed Positioning Pullman to use the new national designation as a platform for future needs, including a marked increase in visitors, energy-conscious carbon reduction strategies, and community development. Costs and benefits were included in the strategy document for the national monument, as well as implementation strategies, and the integrated planning process it represents has become a model for other National Park Service sites.

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CONSERVATION AT THE EDGE PROTOTYPING LOW INTERVENTION CONSERVATION IN THE PATAGONIAN WILDERNESS ic-Toc Marine Park in the Patagonia region of Chile is one of the most biodiverse and productive regions in the world.

Characterized by acres of dense, near-pristine forest and an open edge near the water, the site is an extraordinary opportunity for conservation. The landscape architects were asked to develop a plan to restore and protect the site, building on local, low-tech skills that could be scalable. With no detailed survey of the site available, research required the team to walk transects of the site on foot and combine that data with coarse GIS and ecological research. The jury found the presentation to be “graphically beautiful and thematically important” and “a straightforward approach to a complex problem.”

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vacant parcels, and the conversion of 200 vacant lots into community hubs, orchards, pollinator habitats, and stormwater management sites. An important aspect of the plan is the community redevelopment framework, which structures development to include rehabilitation, new housing, and productive landscape sites. The jury noted the “interesting” solutions and said the project is “admirable and needs to be rewarded.”

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his plan takes the lot-by-lot approach of urban vacancy to the next stage by addressing blighted lots at the neighborhood scale. Working in the Detroit neighborhood of Fitzgerald, which has experienced a 50 percent vacancy rate and contains more than 300 vacant parcels, the landscape architects developed a plan that uses landscape strategies to address the community’s many issues, including affordable housing, workforce development, and community empowerment, as well as healthy, productive landscapes. Included in the plan’s agenda is a new greenway and community park created through consolidation of

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TEXAS CAPITOL COMPLEX MASTER PLAN

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s Austin, Texas, continues to grow and sprawl, this plan offers a corrective by creating an attractive, pedestrian- and bike-friendly nexus at the northern end of Congress Avenue. The centerpiece of the plan is a new four-block central mall, a tree-lined open space that draws and connects to the 40-block Texas Capitol Complex.

Assessing the site’s history as well as the layers of existing regulations, design oversight, and infrastructure needs challenged the designers to develop strategies that would accomplish many objectives, including maximizing the economic potential of state-owned office space and creating vibrant public spaces and street corridors. The jury admired the plan’s comprehensiveness “and the way it integrates into Austin’s downtown.”

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or the Michigan house of a client whose boutiques have helped promote some of the world’s most adventurous clothing designers, Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture created grounds rooted in a modernist aesthetic. Around the sculptural heft of the architecture is a Cor-Ten steel frame that works as a plinth. The steel recurs throughout the landscape: in retaining walls and as a jagged series of beams set end-in into the ground (like “supersized pickup sticks”), which serves as both a screening wall and artwork. Beyond the neat hedges and curated plantings near the building stretches an entry drive with wilder growth, including river birch and a meadow of grasses. Jurors called the project “gorgeous” and “exquisite,” and one commented: “It may look like a museum, but the clients really live in it.”

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NORTHEAST HARBOR, A RESTORATION ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND or more than a century before it was razed, the summer home of Charles William Eliot—the longtime president of Harvard and an early-20th-century advocate for the preservation of Maine landscapes—sprawled across this Mount Desert Island site. Now the grounds of a new family’s estate are tucked on the five-acre wedge between Acadia State Park and the Atlantic Ocean in coastal Maine. “Much like Eliot, our client envisioned a family sanctuary fully integrated with the surrounding wild,” explained the landscape architect Stephen Stimson, FASLA. “They wanted the site to feel like a micro-Acadia, with distinct trails and accessibility from the upper to the lower site.” That’s been accomplished with a palette of native plants and an eye toward restoration of a landscape bruised by extensive construction. Among the improvements: a play area for the client’s children, a new grove of spruce and fir, kitchen and swale gardens, and stone stairways to help negotiate the grade. Calling the project “an excellent adaptation of a historic site to its historic home,” jurors admired its “seamless integration into the landscape.”

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rbors of woven willow shelter the expansive outdoor kitchen, living, and dining rooms of this Sonoma, California, house on a wooded, 17-acre site—a wellblended extension, the jurors noted, of the house’s architecture, but designed by a landscape architect. The jury especially appreciated the items that Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture had made specifically for the site, including the outdoor kitchen’s concrete counters and the pool terrace fire

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pit. Though vineyard views unspool beyond a swimming pool and bocce court, there’s more to the property than recreational amenities. Hidden photovoltaic panels provide all of the compound’s electrical needs, even charging the owner’s electric vehicles. “Visually powerful,” said one of the jurors.

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n one side of the site was a sprawling oceanfront golf course.

On the other was a high, eroded cliff—which also happened to be the stormwater discharge point for a nearby residential development.

Invasive plants had choked out native vegetation. So CSM Design faced some challenges creating a landscape to surround the contemporary residence tucked along the Chilean coast. “You can see where the cliff face has slumped as a result of seismic activity. This was a kind of restoration project at some level, and the transformation is remarkable,” said the jury. One key was the way landscape architects collaborated with the engineers responsible for managing the stormwater. “We were able to increase the width of the flow zones to reduce discharge velocities,” the designer said, which in turn allowed vegetation to take hold, staving off further erosion of the cliff.

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uch an incredibly difficult site,” said the jury of this project built into the cliffside of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill.

“They made land out of air.” Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture’s design for the contemporary residence pulls visitors up the steep grade from the sidewalk with an array of textures: a stone pathway, the cliff face’s raw rock, weathered Cor-Ten steel, a green roof studded with succulents. At the back of the house, a shade garden offers respite and helps screen the space from the neighboring property. And just as a reminder that this is no ordinary place to put a house, the project’s cantilevered CorTen overlook uses clear glass as a guardrail, revealing a heart-stopping drop-off to the hillside below.

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ing the house and outbuildings. Reed Hilderbrand said, “The property serves as a proving ground, shared with private and public constituencies, to promote advances in gardening, a testament to deepening national interest in the cultural significance of ornamental and culinary plants and sustainable landscape practices.”

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wo decades of intertwined history between the client, the landscape architect, and the landscape itself are evident in this project, a farm that “integrates organic sustainable practices without losing the poetry of the garden,” the judges said. What started out as 16 fallow acres has, over the years, grown to more than 60, and now incorporates meadows, woodlands, and wetlands in addition to more structured gardens, both experimental and ornamental, surround-

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the space while preserving the aesthetic and productive qualities of the landscape. This was achieved by highlighting and incorporating the existing walls into several landscape focal points that pay homage to the site’s past. One of these, a tucked-in garden up to 12 feet below the retaining wall, creates a supportive microclimate for the plantings. One judge lauded Reed Hilderbrand’s “spec-

tacular recognition of the former walls.” The visual narrative of the farm is continuous via the anchor that the walls create, which informs the orientation of each built element within the landscape.

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aking its name from the Algonquian word for “lookout,” this historic 200-acre farm in coastal Stonington, Connecticut, is one of the few remaining in the region.

Slated for redevelopment in the early 1990s, it was purchased by the client in an effort to preserve its old-world agrarian charm and open viewsheds. Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture renewed and restored

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rawing inspiration from entropic geologic processes that shaped the site millennia ago, this landscape in New York State is a minimalist complement to the residence’s modern architecture. Hollander Design Landscape Architects employed unusual geometric forms and linear materials to subtly register the undulations of the existing topography. The designer also managed this while protecting existing trees, including ginkgoes, which speckle the landscape as a nod to the geologic history of the site (the trees are living fossils of the

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Triassic Period when the landform would have first taken shape). The stunning basalt walkway negotiates 18 feet of elevation, and its angled and irregular lines echo the chaotic nature of evolution. Several jurors noted the simplicity of the design. One remarked, “The hand of the landscape architect is so deft that it’s invisible; it disappears.”

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o modernize a space (or five) previously envisioned by one of landscape architecture’s greats is an intimidating task. Showing a keen understanding of Lawrence Halprin’s palette, JETT Landscape Architecture + Design created a unified language among five courtyards and adjacent buildings while modernizing Halprin’s decades-old vision.

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When a waterproofing failure threatened the surrounding structures and parking deck below, the designer reimagined the landscape of the Northpoint Apartments in San Francisco’s North Beach area with an artful use of water and stone. JETT struck a balance between the limited water capacity of the site and modern focal points, employing elevated Cor-Ten steel planters and vertical stone water elements.

Specimen trees punctuate the courtyards at key points, continuing the contemporary linear language throughout the courtyards.

The jurors commented that they were “impressed by the respect the landscape architects showed to the work of Halprin.… This is a true cultural landscape.”

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lyde Warren Park caps eight lanes of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas, offering a unique park typology for every lane it shields from the sun. Across the 1,200-footlong, five-acre park near the city’s downtown and arts district, there is an array of recreation spaces: a dog park, water feature plazas, a performance pavilion, and pedestrian

promenades. Visitors can find a wideopen great lawn, intimate and cloistered oak groves, and a children’s play area animated with lively topography.

Most plants here are native or well adapted to the North Texas climate, and more than half of all surfaces are permeable. That means an estimated 18,500 pounds of carbon dioxide are sequestered annually through this

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are moving in; it’s great for business,” said one juror. “There are so many places in the world for which this project is relevant,” said another. “It’s transformational.”

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new foliage, and 64,000 gallons of stormwater are intercepted by the landscape. The park has already become wildly popular, helping to boost attendance at the nearby arts district’s cultural institutions and acting as a catalyst for additional real estate investment. The jury took note of the economic impact: “It has totally reenergized the downtown core. People

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careful composition of shaggy native flora and clean rectilinear lines, the Entrance Garden provides a peaceful, meditative space for an events venue in São Paulo. After progressing through a tunnel formed by a pergola, a lushly planted green wall to the left and a brise-soleil to the right, visitors emerge into a courtyard garden filled with native plants, including Brazil’s namesake tree, the Brazilwood. Square floating stepping-stones lead visitors into a shallow reflecting pool, amid “garden islands” that balance the slate gray composition with tiles of green. Jurors called this “beautifully designed.” “I liked it because it was a smaller, intimate space,” said one juror.

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stormy sea than a desert lake. These aggregations of dredged material and riprap slope out of the earth as frozen waves in the desolate landscape, providing habitats for shorebirds, small mammals, and invertebrates. Interpretive kiosks explain local wildlife, native cultures, and the area’s history, bringing an approachable thread of narrative to an otherwise alien place. “It’s a pretty

amazing piece,” said one juror. “Part of that is the way in which it works with the environment by recalling what was there, and works with what is there now.”

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alifornia’s Owens Lake once stretched across 110 square miles. Today it is a nearly lifeless bowl of toxic dust—the largest single source of dust pollution in the nation. Though the dust was new, the winds that drove it weren’t, and The Whitecaps land art installation pays homage to the 80-mile-per-hour winds that used to whip across the water, making it appear more like a

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he jury loved this project, which comprises two outdoor rooms joined by an art gallery, calling it “exquisite and so wellconceived.” The Windhover Contemplative Center on the campus of Stanford University is a spiritual retreat where the architecture and landscape were conceived as a unified whole. Intended to house the works of the painter and Stanford professor Nathan Oliveira, the gallery is placed in an existing oak woodland and begins with an entry sequence that shields visitors from the busy campus and adjacent street with bamboo hedges and ginkgo trees. Tactile, natural materials predominate: stone, gravel, decomposed granite, and rammed earth. The long, narrow building is anchored on one end by a large reflecting pool courtyard, with a Zen rock garden in the middle, both of which are open even when the galleries are closed. “It’s a public space that at the same time is intimate,” one juror noted.

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huttered since 1995 (and part of one of the largest brownfield sites in the nation), the 10-acre Bethlehem Steel Plant blast furnace makes for astounding scenery: 20 stories of catwalks, smokestacks, and pipes entangling the structure like arteries around a heart. It’s foregrounded by an asymmetrical amphitheater that’s a sharp and rectilinear counterpoint to the burly curlicues of the steel furnace. A smaller event space, a picnic and play area, and an elevated walkway that runs along the former rail line that used to serve the factory round out the programming. The new interventions use an industrial material palette: rusting steel, dark pavers, and concrete. Jurors praised the project for being “iconic” to this part of northeastern Pennsylvania, and for recognizing that this quality could have a resonance in contemporary landscape after it was ignored for so long. “These are the buildings we used to take down,” one juror said.

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CENTRAL SEAWALL PROJECT his redesign of a 3,700-foot section of seawall in downtown Seattle packs a lot into a thin strip of concrete. Previously, the seawall piers blocked light from penetrating into the water, creating a lifeless stretch of shore that discouraged the salmon that used this path to migrate. But the Central Seawall Project used custom-designed glass pavers inserted into the concrete pedestrian promenade to allow light to filter down, kick-starting a renewed ecosystem and allowing the fish to navigate more easily. The face of the seawall was also custom designed in a pattern of raised perpendicular rectangles, a varied texture ideal for small marine life to settle in. The salmon migration route was raised to protect the fish from predators. The collaboration between the landscape architects and marine habitat experts resulted in the first-ever set of marine surface texture design guidelines. “It’s a major engineering project, and it was a landscape architect who led the group of engineers to resolve a major problem,” a juror noted.

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or this courtyard surrounded by commercial buildings in the Chinese city of Suzhou, its landscape architects created a sharp digital sculpture whose main ingredient is water. Inspired by the classical gardens of Suzhou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Z+T Studio Landscape Architecture used a water feature stream to connect two unique zones: a creek garden and a lake garden. The water emanates from a bathtub-shaped monolith of Chinese sesame black granite and flows through bends and eddies that combine

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parametric precision with organic curves, distinctly reminiscent of the work of Zaha Hadid. These shallow trenches in the creek garden give the appearance of abstracted riverbank models, as tiny terraced elevation changes step down to the channel and raise up as human-scaled islands.

It’s a futuristic landscape in miniature, one you can walk across in a few dozen paces. In the lake garden, a wider reflecting pool features fewer digital curves, but offers rectilinear floating pavers that bring visitors out into the water. Jurors called the project “so elegant” and “inspirational.”

The restrained plant palette, “immaculate” detailing, and use of materials were also admired. “It’s a very built landscape. It’s a piece of art,” noted one juror.

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MERGING CULTURE AND ECOLOGY AT THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART mid new pedestrian connections, the 28-acre site of the North Carolina Museum of Art hosts a refreshingly naturalistic sculpture garden, allowing flowing, laissez-faire topography to frame the art. The farther visitors venture from the new museum galleries, the less formal the spaces become, giving way to a wilder wetland setting, all of which

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was created to capture, hold, and clean the site’s stormwater. Back at the museum, courtyards act as entry points to the building, beckoning with fountains, reflecting pools, and allées of river birches—a landscape touch point that calls out the implicit connection between art and ecology.

Jurors called this “beautiful” and “fabulous,” and admired the way it knits

into the region. “It’s integrated with this incredible greenbelt that goes for miles and miles right into the downtown,” a juror said.

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he new Regenstein Learning Campus at the Chicago Botanic Garden uses natural landscapes to bridge the gap between recreation and intuitive experiential learning for kids. It’s a childscaled petting zoo of landforms: hills to tumble down, boulders to clamber over, hollowed logs to climb through, and a stream in a narrow channel that traces a walking path to splash in. The jury highlighted the project’s topographical “sophistication” and “exquisite, artful” mounds. The six-acre site also includes an amphitheater, as well as an apiary and butterfly exhibition tent.

Throughout, the meandering, curving paths and nonsequential landforms create new opportunities for independent play and discovery.

“Botanical gardens are failing because you can’t get young people there. To have a place where you can bring kids is really important,” said one juror.

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he green roof on top of Facebook’s corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California, works as both a place for respite with nature and as an active landscape for the company’s signature “walking meetings.” Organized around a half-mile pedestrian loop that exhibits the same serpentine twists as those seen in the expansive salt flats it overlooks, satellite paths spin off, bringing staff to idiosyncratic moments of art and landscape.

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There are diverse planting gardens, art installations, and sculptural wind and sun screens. Skylights dot the surface of the roof, and views of the salt flats are carefully choreographed. Plants (coastal sage scrub and prairie, needle grass meadow, manzanita, and more) were chosen for their ability to withstand drought, thin soil, erratic drainage, and the windy environment of the Bay Area coast. Jurors admired how the roof “connects to the landscape below.”

CMG LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE SAN FRANCISCO FACEBOOK, CLIENT

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QCP Rico Associates Roman Fountains Salsbury Industries Santa Barbara Designs Sitecra Sitescapes, Inc. SofSURFACES, Inc. Soil Retention Products Solus Décor, Inc. Spring Meadow Nursery Inc. (Proven Winners) Stepstone, Inc. Sternberg Lighting StressCrete Group / King Luminaire, The Structureworks Fabrication Superior Concrete Products Sure-Loc Aluminum Edging The Cultural Landscape Foundation Themed Concepts Thomas Steele Tiger Deck Tournesol Siteworks/Planter Technology Trellis Structures Tri-State Stone Co. for Carderock U.S. Green Building Council Victor Stanley, Inc. Vitamin Institute VORTEX USA Walpole Outdoors LLC Water Odyssey Wausau Tile Western Juniper Alliance Westile Westminster Teak Williams Stone Company, Inc. Wishbone Site Furnishings Ltd.

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Belden Brick Co.

330-456-0031

103

2017 EXPO Promotion

202-898-4444 226-227

Cast Lighting LLC

800-914-2278 13, 215

Eurocobble

877-877-5012 45, 218

American Public Transportation

703-706-8237

Kichler Landscape Lighting

800-659-9000 20, 215

GAF - Streetbond

973-628-3000

93

Louis Poulsen

954-349-2525

41

Hanover Architectural Products, Inc.

800-426-4242

199

Meteor Lighting

213-255-2060

193

Kafka Granite

715-687-2423

4, 217

847-588-3400 95, 216

Kaswell Flooring Systems

508-879-1500

217

Landmark Ceramics, Inc.

931-325-5700 10, 217

Pavestone Company

866-409-7971

C4

Peacock Pavers

800-264-2072

190

224

Association ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo

202-898-2444

11

ASLA Corporate Membership

202-216-2326

207

Sternberg Lighting

ASLA Heritage Circle

202-216-2369

205

StressCrete Group / King Luminaire, The 800-268-7809

Greenbuild Conference & Expo

972-536-6318

204

LA CES

888-999-2752

222

LUMBER/DECKING/EDGING

Landscape Architecture Foundation

202-331-7070

223

Bison Innovative Products by UCP

888-412-4766

192

Pine Hall Brick Co., Inc.

800-334-8689 12, 218

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

202-483-0553

206

Envirospec, Inc.

716-689-8548

216

SofSURFACES, Inc.

519-882-8799

89

U.S. Green Building Council

202-552-1369

221

Permaloc Aluminum Edging

800-356-9660 109, 216

Soil Retention Products

760-966-6090

202

Western Juniper Alliance

503-221-6911

200

Sure-Loc Aluminum Edging

800-787-3562

23

Stepstone, Inc.

310-483-6979

197

Tiger Deck

503-625-1747

216

Superior Concrete Products

817-277-9255

203

Tri-State Stone Co. for Carderock

301-365-2100

218

Wausau Tile

800-388-8728 81, 218

BUSINESS SERVICES Rico Associates

508-842-4948

212

DESIGN CONSULTANTS BrightView Design Group

844-235-7778

53

DRAINAGE AND EROSION

OUTDOOR FURNITURE Country Casual

240-813-1117

67

Westile

800-433-8453

107

Museum & Library Furniture LLC

240-743-4672

47

Williams Stone Company, Inc.

800-832-2052

218

Santa Barbara Designs

800-919-9464

195

Solus Décor, Inc.

877-255-3146

196

Westminster Teak

800-750-1595

6

Campania International, Inc.

215-541-4627

C2-1, 219

ACO Polymer Products Inc.

440-285-7000 91, 212

Iron Age Designs

206-276-0925 16, 212

PARKS AND RECREATION

Ironsmith, Inc.

800-338-4766 26, 212

Berliner Play Equipment Corporation

864-627-1092

FENCES/GATES/WALLS

PLANTERS/SCULPTURES/GARDEN ACCESSORIES

David Harber Ltd.

312-895-1586

101

85

Form and Fiber

888-314-8852

203

Columbia Cascade Company

800-547-1940 97, 217

Greenform LLC

310-331-1665

198

Gill Athletics

800-637-3090

HADDONSTONE

866-733-8225 105, 218

189

Evergreen Walls US

770-840-7060

212

Goric Marketing Group Inc.

617-774-0772 63, 216

Italian Terrace Collection Ltd.

203-615-4028

71

Illusions Vinyl Fence

631-698-0975

212

Greenfields Outdoor Fitness

888-315-9037

Planters Unlimited by Hooks & Lattice

760-707-5400

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HONORS THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS HAS ANNOUNCED ITS 2017 HONOREES, WHO WILL BE RECOGNIZED DURING THE 2017 ASLA ANNUAL MEETING & EXPO, OCTOBER 20–23 IN LOS ANGELES.

BY MAGGIE ZACKOWITZ

ASLA MEDAL

ASLA DESIGN MEDAL

CHARLES BIRNBAUM, FASLA

GARY HILDERBRAND, FASLA

Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, “felt the governmental ‘top-down’ approach to education, outreach, and advocacy was less effective than a ‘bottom-up’ grassroots approach,” said one colleague. So he founded the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) to do just that. As coordinator of the National Park Service’s Historic Landscape Initiative, and especially with TCLF, Birnbaum has raised awareness of the designed environment and helped protect its treasures. For this he will receive the ASLA Medal, ASLA’s highest award for a landscape architect.

MEDAL OF EXCELLENCE

CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY

The Landscape Architecture Medal of Excellence, for contributions to landscape architecture policy, research, education, and project planning and design, will go to the Central Park Conservancy. The conservancy is a model of public–private partnership—a nonprofit that works with donors and the city of New York to provide 75 percent of Central Park’s funding. One of the group’s admirers said, “Today Central Park has never been more beautiful or better managed in the park’s 150-plus-year history, thanks to the conservancy’s leadership.”

OLMSTED MEDAL

ATLANTA BELTLINE INC. AND ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP

The Olmsted Medal, for environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship demonstrated outside the profession of landscape architecture, will be presented jointly to the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. and the Atlanta BeltLine Partnership. These groups have helped transform Atlanta by conceiving and constructing the BeltLine—a 22-mile loop of trails, parks, and streetcar lines—along the old rail corridors that once circled the city. The BeltLine deserves this award, said one landscape architect, because it celebrates “the spirit of cooperation among various levels and segments of government, its citizens, profit and nonprofit organizations, and institutions.”

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The ASLA Design Medal—recognizing design work over a period of at least 10 years—will go to Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA. “Extraordinary beauty and cultural relevance” are hallmarks of his projects with partner Doug Reed, FASLA, and the Reed Hilderbrand firm. He has “an unyielding commitment to responsible use of the land, a willingness to take risks to expand the parameters of what is possible, and a tenacious persuasiveness and defense of his values and ideas,” noted one peer. His projects include Boston’s Arnold Arboretum Leventritt Garden and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

BRADFORD WILLIAMS MEDALS

BRIAN BARTH RAFFI KHATCHADOURIAN

LAGASSE MEDAL

LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL: KENNETH BAHLINGER, ASLA NON-LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONAL: JANETTE SADIK-KHAN, HONORARY ASLA

Kenneth Bahlinger, ASLA, “hasn’t simply studied, theorized, or advocated for the restoration of important natural resources,” said one colleague, “He has effectively done something about it,” with his work to improve Louisiana’s coastal regions.

For this he will receive ASLA’s LaGasse Medal for contributions to the management and conservation of natural resources and public landscapes.

Janette Sadik-Khan, Honorary ASLA, will receive the LaGasse Medal for a non-landscape professional, which also conveys honorary membership in ASLA. As commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation and as chair of the National Association of City Transportation Officials, she has shared her vision for urban spaces. “By recognizing Janette’s contribution,” noted one colleague, “we will encourage the next—and the next—Janette to think creatively so that we can work creatively.”

Two Bradford Williams Medals are awarded to recognize excellent writing about landscape architecture: one honoring an article from LAM and one from a mainstream publication. This year’s medals will go to Brian Barth and Raffi Khatchadourian. Barth’s story, “Let’s Beat It,” in the October 2016 issue of LAM, dealt with the relocation of JOT D. CARPENTER TEACHING MEDAL ELIZABETH K. MEYER, FASLA the residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles.

Khatchadourian wrote “The Long View”—about The Jot D. Carpenter Teaching Medal, the landscape photography of Edward Burtynsky— awarded for excellence in landscape architecture edufor the New Yorker’s December 19, 2016, issue. cation, will go to Elizabeth K. Meyer, FASLA. Meyer is the University of Virginia’s Merrill D. Peterson ProTHE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FIRM fessor of Landscape Architecture. Her commitment AWARD to her students and to the profession are well known, but GUSTAFSON GUTHRIE NICHOL she is also a member of the U.S. Commission of Fine Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) will Arts. Noted one colleague, “Every time she returns receive the Landscape Architecture from D.C., Beth reports how she needed to contextuFirm Award, ASLA’s highest honor for a firm. alize the design proposals. Always teaching. Always.”

Jennifer Guthrie, FASLA; Kathryn Gustafson, COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD FASLA; and Shannon Nichol, FASLA; founded JOHN T. LYLE CENTER FOR GGN in 1999 as a venture “in which design REGENERATIVE STUDIES would always come first and complex problems would be tackled with bravery, humor, humilThe John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative ity, and curiosity,” noted one admirer. Their Studies will receive the Community Service Award projects include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foun- for sustained pro bono service demonstrating the dation Campus in Seattle and the National Mu- values of landscape architecture. Founded at Caliseum of African American History and Culture in fornia State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in Washington, D.C. 1994, the center is “an open learning lab of the principles of sustainability in action.”

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