CATEGORIES GENERAL DESIGN
RESEARCH
Recognizes site specific works of Landscape Architecture or Urban Design. Student Awards entries in this category are not required to be built.
Recognizes research projects that identify, examine and address challenges and problems that are resolved using solutions of value to the profession.
Typical entries include public, institutional, or private landscapes of all kinds; historic preservation, reclamation, conservation, or sustainable design; design for transportation or infrastructure, landscape art or installation, interior landscape design, green roofs, and more.
Typical entries include investigations into methods, techniques, or materials related to landscape architecture practice or education, assessments of social, economic or environmental impacts of landscape architecture, study of relationships of landscape architecture to law, education, public health and safety, or public policy,and more.
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN
URBAN DESIGN
Recognizes site specific works of Landscape Architecture or Urban Design. Student Awards entries in this category are not required to be built.
Recognizes projects that activate networks of spaces that mediate between social equity, economic viability, infrastructure, environmental stewardship, and beautiful place-making in the public and private realm. Entries in this category are not required to be built or implemented.
Typical entries include single or multi-family residential projects; activity areas for entertaining, recreation, and relaxing; sustainable landscape applications, indigenous and native landscapes, new construction or renovation projects; historical preservation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, or restoration affordable landscape concepts and innovations, small site development, private gardens, rooftop gardens, and more.
PLANNING + ANALYSIS Recognizes the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide, or evaluate landscape architectural design. Typical entries may include: urban, suburban, rural or regional planning efforts and/ or development guidelines, campus planning, regional transportation plans, recreational planning, urban planning, security analysis and planning, government policies (ordinance writing and development guidelines), programs, legislation or regulations, landscape analysis, such as environmental assessments and natural and visual resource inventories, and natural resources protection, conservation, restoration, and/or reclamation plans.
Typical entries include conceptualized urban projects spatially greater than one block in the realm of public, institutional, or private landscapes; streetscapes, waterfronts, mixed-use developments, neighborhoods, districts, cities, placemaking interventions and civic improvements that may include elements of reclamation, stormwater management, transportation or infrastructure studies, art, and more.
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