ASLA 2003 Awards

Deadline for Entry Form - Friday, May 2, 2003, 5:00 EDT
Deadline for Submission of Materials - Friday, May 16, 2003, 5:00 EDT

Return the entry form (attached) with payment of the entry fee for each submission. Upon receipt of your entry form and payment, you will be sent an official entry kit with detailed submission requirements for each submission, along with prepaid UPS return shipping materials.

Please note that each award entry form and payment must be received by ASLA by Friday, May 2, 2003, 5:00 p.m. EDT, and submission materials must be submitted in an official entry kit and received by ASLA by Friday, May 16, 2003, 5:00 p.m. EDT. Download entry form for details: Entry Form (pdf document)

Any individual, firm, agency, or academic institution is eligible to enter as long as one of the project’s participants includes at least one of the following:

• ASLA member
• Nonmember landscape architect
• Graduate of a landscape architecture program
• Faculty member of a landscape architecture program

NOTE: Non-landscape architects may submit entries in Research and Communications categories.

J. Brooks Breeden, FASLA
Professor and Head, Landscape Architecture
Knowlton School of Architecture
The Ohio State University

Benjamin Forgey
Architecture Critic
The Washington Post

John Jackson III, ASLA
Jackson Person & Associates, Inc.
Memphis, Tennessee

Joseph J. Lalli, FASLA
EDSA
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Carol Mayer-Reed, FASLA
Mayer/Reed
Portland, Oregon

Witold Rybczynski, Hon. FAIA
Author and Meyerson Professor of Urbanism
University of Pennsylvania

Frederick R. Steiner, ASLA
Dean, School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin

Ramiro Villalvazo, ASLA
Chief Landscape Architect
USDA Forest Service

Joan H. Woodward, ASLA
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Category I—Design

Recognizes site-specific works of landscape architecture, including urban design. For large incremental projects, at least the first stage of construction must be completed to be eligible for an award. Design entries should exhibit a relationship to planning and a framework for an area larger than the immediate site.

Typical entries may include: communities and housing; urban design, streets, and public spaces; parks and recreational facilities; transportation corridors and facilities; residences and gardens; security features and facilities; resorts; institutions; historic preservation and restoration; reclamation and conservation; ecological restoration; landscape art and earth sculpture; and interior landscapes.

Judging criteria will include: quality of design; functionality; context; environmental responsibility; and relevance to the profession, the public, and the environment.

Category II—Analysis and Planning

Recognizes the wide variety of professional activities that lead to, guide, or evaluate landscape architecture design.

Typical entries may include: general development plans; regional transportation plans; recreational planning; urban planning; security analysis and planning; government policies, programs, legislation, or regulations; landscape analysis, such as environmental assessments and natural- and visual-resource inventories; and natural-resource protection, conservation, restoration, and/or reclamation plans.

Judging criteria will include: quality of analysis and planning; functionality; context; environmental responsibility; effective use, presentation, or programming of landscape architecture techniques; opportunities for landscape architecture to have a significant impact on the environment or environmental decision making; and overall relevance to landscape architecture, the public, and the environment.

Category III—Research

Recognizes research projects that identify, examine, and address challenges and problems that are resolved using solutions of value to the profession.

Entries must comprise the following:

1. identification of the problem to be researched;
   
2. relationships to be investigated;
   
3. method of inquiry used;
   
4. results of the research, which may include statistical or other analysis and demonstrate advancement of the body of knowledge of landscape architecture; and
   
5. conclusions concerning the significance of the results, comparisons with past research, applicability to landscape architecture, and the need for new or further research.

Judging criteria will include clarity and adequacy of execution of the above five steps, overall significance and relevance to the profession, and quality of the presentation.

Category IV—Communications

Recognizes achievements in communicating landscape architecture information, technology, theory, or practice to those within OR outside the profession.

Typical entries may include: books, articles, videos, and audio recordings of presentations on landscape architecture history, art, or technology; educational material intended for the nontechnical consumer; or material that increases awareness of landscape design, environmental, or conservation issues.

Judging criteria will include: quality of context; presentation usefulness to the intended reader or viewer; and overall significance and relevance to the profession, the public, or the environment.

Recognition Levels:

• Excellence Award—One Excellence Award may be designated in each category annually.
  
• Honor Award—A maximum of five percent of the entries in any category may be so designated.
  
• Merit Award—Any number of Merit Awards may be designated in each

The Landscape Architecture Community Service Award was created in 2002 to recognize individual landscape architects, landscape architecture firms, landscape architecture educational programs, or ASLA chapters for pro bono public and community service over a sustained period of no less than five years. Judging criteria will include the impact on or relevance to landscape architecture, the public, and the environment, while demonstrating sound principles of landscape architecture.

Eligibility:
•ASLA member
•Landscape architecture firm
•Landscape architecture educational programs
•ASLA chapter

The Landmark Award recognizes a built project that has been completed for not less than 15 years and not more than 50 years. It recognizes the significant contribution landscape architecture makes to the public realm, calls attention to the element of time in landscape architecture, and emphasizes the long-term benefits created by the landscape architecture profession. Typical entries may include: ASLA Centennial Medallion recipients; communities and housing; streets and public spaces; parks and recreational facilities; transportation corridors and facilities; public estates and gardens; institutions; commercial facilities; and resorts. Judging criteria will include: the profound and enduring significance the project has held in its community; the substantial contribution it has made to the community’s quality of life; and evidence that the project has remained consistent with or increased its level of importance since the project’s completion.

Eligibility:
•Original designer or firm
•Nominations on behalf of the original designer or firm
•Nominations from ASLA chapters for projects within their region