Outstanding Juries Named for Professional and Student Awards Programs
Entry forms and payment must be received by February 9, for professional awards program, and May 18, for student awards.

ASLA has named the juries for the 2007 professional and student awards programs. As in past years, the juries reflect the growing field of landscape architecture, with participants drawn from public practice, academia, residential design, and multidisciplinary practices. In addition, each region of the country is well represented in both juries. Christopher Dimond, FASLA, HNTB, will serve as jury chair for the professional awards program, while Todd Johnson, FASLA, Design Workshop, will chair the student jury. Johnson served as the 2006 professional awards jury chair. The 2007 Awards call for entries and juror photographs are available online.

Christopher Dimond, FASLA, HNTB, Kansas City, Mo., will serve as jury chair for the 2007 ASLA professional awards program. Todd Johnson, FASLA, Design Workshop, will serve as jury chair for the 2007 ASLA student awards program.

Members of the professional awards jury convening in March 2007 include:

• Christopher Dimond, FASLA, HNTB, Kansas City, Mo., Jury Chair
• Warren T. Byrd, FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, Va.
• William B. Calloway, FASLA, SWA Group, Sausalito, Calif.
• Adele Chatfield-Taylor, American Academy in Rome, New York, N.Y.
• Astrid Haryati, ASLA, Assistant to the Mayor, City of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• Richard Hawks, FASLA, State University of New York, Syracuse, N.Y.  
• Raymond Jungles, FASLA, Raymond Jungles, Inc., Miami, Fla.
• Ketzel Levine, National Public Radio, Portland, Ore.
• Ken Smith, ASLA, Ken Smith Landscape Architecture, New York, N.Y.

Bill Marken, editor-in-chief of Garden Design magazine in Los Altos, Calif., will join the jury for the Residential Design Category and William H. Tishler, FASLA, representing the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will join the jury for selection of the Landmark Award.

Members of the student awards jury convening in June 2007 will include:

• Todd D. Johnson, FASLA, Design Workshop, Denver, Colo., Jury Chair
• Ellin Goetz, FASLA, Goetz + Stropes, Naples, Fla.
• Dean Hill, ASLA, Terratecture, Fishers, Ind., and host of the DIY Network television series “Grounds for Improvement.”
• Leonard J. Hopper, FASLA, New York City Public Housing Authority, New York, N.Y.
• Shannon R. Nichol, ASLA, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, Ltd., Seattle, Wash.
• Mark Rios, FASLA, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, Los Angeles, Calif.
• Lolly Tai, FASLA, Temple University, Ambler, Pa.

The ASLA awards program is divided into five categories: General Design; Residential Design, co-sponsored by Garden Design magazine; Analysis and Planning; Research, co-sponsored by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture; and Communications. The call for entries also includes the Landmark Award, co-sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, recognizing a landscape architecture project completed between 15 and 50 years ago.  The student awards program features a Student Collaboration category and a Student Community Service Award.

Professional award entry forms are due by Friday, February 9, 2007.  Professional submissions must be received by Friday, February 23, 2007.  Student entry forms are due by Friday, May 18, 2007. Student submissions must be received by Friday, June 1, 2007.

Award winning projects will be featured in Landscape Architecture magazine and other industry and general media.  Professional residential design award winning projects will also be featured in Garden Design magazine.  Award recipients and their clients will be honored in a ceremony followed by a luncheon at the ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo, in October 2007, in San Francisco, Calif.  The award winning projects will be featured in a video presentation to premier at the ceremony.