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General Design
Recognizes: Site-specific works of landscape architecture. Entries are not required to be built.
Typical entries include: Single-site public, institutional, or private landscapes of all kinds (except
entries qualifying for urban design or residential design categories); projects that include historic preservation, reclamation, or conservation; green roofs, stormwater management, sustainable design; design for transportation or infrastructure; landscape art or installation; interior landscape design; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design and execution; design context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; hazard mitigation, climate adaptation, and resilience strategies; and design value to the client, community, and to other designers.
Residential Design
Recognizes: Site-specific works of landscape architecture for residential use that elevate the design principles of quality, context/place, environmental responsibility, maintenance require- ments and durability. Innovative design and construction techniques that help to reduce overall construction and maintenance costs will also be recognized. Entries in this category are not required to be built.
Typical entries include: Single or multifamily residential projects; activity areas for cooking, entertaining, recreation, or relaxation; sustainable landscape applications; new construc- tion or renovation projects; historic preservation; new urbanism projects with multifamily development; projects located in Opportunity Zones; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design context and execution, materiality, environmental sensitivity, community benefit, sustainability through Low Impact Development (lid) incorporation, green infrastructure or additional site specific techniques that are innovative.
Analysis & Planning
Recognizes: The wide variety of pro- fessional activities that lead to, guide, and evaluate landscape architecture design. Entries in this category are not required to be built or implemented.
Typical entries include: Urban, suburban, rural, or regional planning efforts; development guidelines; transportation, town, or campus planning; plans for reclamation of brownfield sites; environmental planning in relation to legislative
or policy initiatives or regulatory controls; cultural resource reports; natural resources protection; historic preservation planning; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider the qual- ity of the analysis and planning effort; context; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; likelihood of successful implementation; and value to the client, the public, and other designers.
Research
Recognizes: Research that identifies and investigates challenges posed in landscape architecture, providing results that advance the body of knowledge for the profession.
Typical entries include: Investigations into methods, techniques, or materials related to the practice of landscape architecture; studies of relationships of landscape architecture to law, education, public health and safety, or public policy; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider how the research is framed; the context and resources of the study; the methods of inquiry; the results of investigation; and the value to the field at large.
Urban Design
Recognizes: The Urban Design Category recognizes projects that activate networks of spaces that mediate between social equity, economic viability, infrastructure, environ- mental 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, etc.
Criteria: The jury will consider the quality of design; urban design context; planning context; contribution of project to a broader urban landscape; environmental sensitivity and sustainability; and attention to social justice, equity, and inclusion.
Communications
Recognizes: Achievements in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, and the lesson value to an intended audience.
Typical entries include: Print media, film, video, audio, CD, or DVD formats; online communications; interpretive design; exhibition design; and more. Supplemental materials are required and should be sent directly to the ASLA awards program prior to the submission deadline.
Criteria: The jury will consider the effectiveness of the message presen- tation, the innovation in approach or delivery, and the value to the intended audience.
Note: Submissions in this category are not blind.
Student Community Service
Recognizes: Pro bono community service by students demonstrating sound principles and values of landscape architecture.
Typical entries include: Individual students, student teams, or student organizations providing pro bono community-based advocacy or public service.
Criteria: The jury will consider the effectiveness related to the service and the demonstration value to other com- munities, students, and professionals.
Student Colloboration
Recognizes: Collaborative work by landscape architecture students
with students from complementary disciplines, including those in other design fields, business, the natural and social sciences, and more. Student entries are not required to be built.
Typical entries include: Landscape architecture projects that meet the criteria within the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis and Planning, Research, Communications, Urban Design, and Community Service brought about through collaborative effort among students from landscape architecture programs and complementary disciplines.
Criteria: Projects submitted in this category must be team projects;
each team must include at least one landscape architecture student and one non-landscape architecture student. The jury will evaluate the project under the criteria outlined in the appropriate category and will also consider the demonstration of collaboration among the disciplines represented on each team.