ASLA is pleased to announce the winners of the 2000 ASLA National Student Design Competition. Winning entries will be displayed at the ASLA Annual Meeting in St. Louis on October 28-31.

Undergraduate Individual Design Category

FIRST PLACE

Nissa R. Paggi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for "A Transcendent Landscape: A Place for Memory and Hope"

Robin Chubb, University of Toronto, for "Seed City: building a community of memory"

Commendations:

Gerald Dieleman, University of Guelph, for "Downsview Park: evoking the experience" commended for "strong narrative and graphic presentation of a design that effectively conveys the concept"

Drew Kent, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, for "Mission Bay South Waterfront Development Plan" commended for "forward and inventive design concept illustration for site specific revitalization"

Melissa Lind, Arizona State University, for "Recycling an American Dream" commended for "calling us to a higher level of environmental responsibilities"

Eric Taylor, Kansas State University, for "Chapman's Landing Planned Community" commended for "strong solutions and conceptual forms that are well connected to the site"

Graduate Individual Research Category

First Place

Joseph Ragsdale, University of Virginia, for "Industrial Strength Landscape Research + Design in Industrial Terrain from State to Site"

David DuMez Hopman, University of Texas at Arlington, for "Towards a 'Critical Regionalism" For Rapidly Developing Areas of Texas"

Commendations:

Sharon Beirne Fuller, University of Texas at Arlington, for "Cemeteries as Sacred Landscapes" commended for "calling designers to reconsider the contemporary and future role and place of familiar landscapes"

Peter Briggs, University of Guelph, for "Community Development with Indigenous Communities: Facilitating the Creation of Appropriate Environments" commended for "charting role of self-actualization in community participation"

Second Professional Graduate Research Category

First Place

Matthew Myers, University of Oregon, for "Street Corners, Homeless Camps & Vacant Lots: Appropriation & the Urban Environment"

Commendation

Jolie B. Kaytes, University of Oregon, for "Garden Experiment" commended for "combination of intellectual and poetic thought and presentation"

Graduate Team Research

First Place

Stacie Printon and J.T. Newton, University of Michigan for "Behind the Façade: African Influences in the Design of the South Carolina Rice Plantation Landscape"

Undergraduate Research

Commendation

James Chaddick, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for "Constructed Wetlands: A Research Study for the Las Vegas Springs Preserve" commended "for a well done body of research and application of that research for the development of a constructed wetland,"

Undergraduate Team Research

Commendation

Joseph James and Andrew Deer, Michigan State University for "The L.A. Times" commended for "story presentation of alternative educational tool"