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.

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.

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 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.

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.