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ASLA 2008 Awards Call for Entries Released
ASLA has released its 2008 awards call for entries for professionals and students. Award recipients receive featured coverage in Landscape Architecture magazine and in many other design and construction industry and general-interest media. Residential category professional award recipients will also be featured in Garden Design magazine. Award recipients, their clients, and advisers will be honored at the awards presentation ceremony followed by a special champagne reception during the ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO in Philadelphia, October 3-7, 2008. The award-winning projects will be featured in a video presentation to premiere at the ceremony.
The prestige of the ASLA awards program relies in large part on the high-caliber juries that are convened each year to review submissions. Members of the professional awards jury convening in March 2008 include:
 Warren T. Byrd, FASLA |
Warren T. Byrd, FASLA, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, Virginia, Jury Chair
- Mary Ellen Cowan, ASLA, MESA, Dallas
- Robert A. Ivy, FAIA, Editor-in-Chief, Architectural Record, New York
- Niall Kirkwood, ASLA, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Steve Martino, FASLA, Steve Martino/Cactus City Design, Phoenix, Arizona
- Elizabeth D. Miller, ASLA, National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, D.C.
- Dennis Pieprz, Affiliate ASLA, Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts
- W. Gary Smith, ASLA, W. Gary Smith Design, Austin, Texas, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Kongjian Yu, International ASLA, Peking University Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, Turenscape, Beijing, China
- Bill Marken, Honorary ASLA, editor emeritus of Garden Design magazine, will join the jury for the Residential Design category.
- 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 2008 will include:

F. Christopher Dimond, FASLA |
F. Christopher Dimond, FASLA, Kansas City, Missouri, Jury Chair
- Cheryl Barton, FASLA, Office of Cheryl Barton, San Francisco
- Abhijeet Chavan, ASLA, Co-founder, Co-editor-in-Chief, Planetizen, Los Angeles
- Barbara Faga, FASLA, EDAW, Atlanta
- Walter Hood, ASLA, Hood Design, University of California Berkeley, Oakland, California
- Jane Kolleeny, Senior Editor, Architectural Record; Managing Editor, GreenSource, New York
- Kevin Robert Perry, ASLA, Nevue Ngan Associates, Portland, Oregon
- Kristen Richards, Editor, ArchNewsNow, New York
- Kevin M. Shanley, FASLA, SWA Group, Houston
The ASLA awards program features six categories: General Design; Residential Design, co-sponsored by Garden Design magazine; Analysis & Planning; Research, co-sponsored by the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture and Landscape Journal; Communications; and the Landmark Award, co-sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The student awards program also features a Student Collaboration category and the Student Community Service Awards. Student award recipients will receive a complimentary full registration to the 2008 annual meeting.
Entry forms and payment must be received by:
- Friday, February 1, 2008, for Professional Awards
- Friday, May 9, 2008, for Student Awards
Submission binders must be received by:
- Friday, February 15, 2008, for Professional Awards
- Friday, May 23, 2008, for Student Awards
To view the 2007 ASLA Professional Awards video, please visit the following links:
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