Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honors the best in landscape architecture from around the globe, while the ASLA Student Awards program gives us a glimpse into the future of the profession.
Award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture magazine, and in many other design and construction industry and general interest media. Residential category award recipients will also be featured in Garden Design magazine. Award recipients, their clients, and professors will be honored at the Awards Presentation Ceremony.
The Student Community Service Award
Recognizes: pro bono community service by students demonstrating sound principles or values of landscape architecture.
Typical entries include: individual students or student organizations providing community-based advocacy or public service; development of public education programs; leadership in advocacy through local organizations or through Student ASLA Chapter activities; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider effectiveness related to the community’s environment and quality of life, and the demonstration value to other communities, students, and professionals.
Recognition: The Student Awards Jury may select one organizational and one individual Community Service Award recipient.
Student Collaboration
Recognizes: collaborative work by landscape architecture students with students from allied and complementary disciplines, including those in other design fields, business, and the natural and social sciences.
Typical entries include: projects that meet the criteria within the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis & Planning, Research, and Communications, brought about through collaborative effort with students from allied and complementary disciplines, including other design fields, business, and the natural and social sciences.
Criteria: Projects submitted in this category must be team projects and must have at least one landscape architecture student as part of the team.
Recognition: The Student Awards jury may each select one Award of Excellence and any number of Honor Awards.