American Society of Landscape Architects

  2004 ASLA Professional Awards


Communications Award of Merit

The Built Environment Image Guide—For the National Forests and Grasslands
USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC

A comprehensive, well organized, beautifully illustrated guide covering a broad range of environments across the continent. . . Design guidelines and rationale are very clearly articulated and illustrated. . . A very valuable guide to the seasoned practitioner as well as the layperson.
           2004 Professional Awards Jury Comments

This guide was developed to help the USDA Forest Service return to its rich tradition of planning and designing quality facilities that are both aesthetically pleasing and that present the appropriate image for the agency. It serves to illustrate the role of everyone involved in creating and maintaining a quality facility, from project sponsors, decision makers, and designers, to field staff and technicians. Its heavy use in the field and its impact throughout the Forest Service is very apparent.

 

First page of article in LA Magazine, February of 2004, featuring the Built Environment Image Guide. (Photo: Landscape Architecture Magazine)

Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, Monongahela National Forest. Quality of facilities Forest Service is striving for, and the BEIG is influencing. (Photo: Forest Service)

Lolo Pass Visitor Center, Lolo National Forest. Example of a facility fitting into the landscape with concern for meadow restoration and boardwalk construction to be soft on the land. (Photo: Forest Service)

Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, Forest Service Alaska Region. Quality of facilities Forest Service is striving for, and the BEIG is influencing. (Photo: Forest Service)

Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center, Forest Service Alaska Region. Quality of facilities Forest Service is striving for, and the BEIG is influencing. (Photo: Forest Service)

Raised boardwalk, George Washington-Jefferson National Forest. Example of excellence of design in spectacular settings, with BEIG used to support concepts. (Photo: Forest Service)

Mendenhall Glacier Area, Forest Service Alaska Region. Example of visitor facilities adjacent to lakeshore area being restored using bioengineering methods. Emphasis is on using natural and sustainable methods as encouraged in the BEIG. (Photo: Forest Service)

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Forest Service Northeastern Region. Example of BEIG concepts used to influence the modification of typical Forest Service signs to be sensitive to, and reflect the prairie landscape character. (Photo: Forest Service)

Example of how the BEIG has influenced the design of cost effective, pre-manufactured toilet facilities used by the Forest Service and other agencies. Upper left is affectionately known as the "Tupperware Toilet" (no longer used). (Photo: Forest Service)

Example of how the BEIG was used as a guide to develop examples of fire fighter housing barracks architecture in all eight of the Provinces described in the BEIG. (Photo: Forest Service)

   

Awards Press Release |  Awards Home