
Award of Excellence
The White Forest: Density and the Void
Frederick G. Besançon, Associate ASLA
Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI
faculty advisors: Isabel Zempel and
Elke Berger
Honor Awards

Reconciling Purity and Nature: A Bathing Pool for Daingerfield Island
Allison Thurmond, Student ASLA
Virginia Tech Washington Alexandria Architecture Consortium, Alexandria, VA
faculty advisors: Paul Kelsch, Ph.D., ASLA, and Paul Emmons, Ph.D., RA
LOOPSCAPE
Kyung Eui Park, Associate ASLA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Valerio Morabito
Living with Floods
Chen-Wei Wu, Student Affiliate ASLA;
Shih-Chia Chiu, Student Affiliate ASLA;
I-Chun Chien, Student Affiliate ASLA;
Shih-Yeu Hou, Student Affiliate ASLA, and
Jheng-Ru Li, Student Affiliate ASLA
Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
faculty advisors: Shiau-Yun Lu and Shian-Po Liao
Honor Award

The Productive Landscape:
Urban Housing for Autistic Adults
John Gough, Student ASLA, and
Adam C. Nordfors, Student ALSA
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
faculty advisor: Kim Steele

Award of Excellence
Switching Trajectories in the Rhine Delta
Matanya Sack, Student Affiliate ASLA, and
Liesl Vanautgaerden, Student Affiliate ASLA
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Zurich, Switzerland
faculty advisors: Christophe Girot and Sebastien Marot
Honor Awards

Remediation Infrastructure:
A Comprehensive Development Strategy for the Remediation of the Gowanus Canal
Heather Fuhrman, Associate ASLA
City College of New York, New York, NY
faculty advisors: Achva Benzinberg-Stein, FASLA; Denise Hoffman-Brandt and
Hanque Macari
Wild North vs. Rational Port Landscape Architecture Articulates a New Northern Portscape Near Moosonee, Ontario
Courtney Likins, Student ASLA
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
faculty advisor: Jane Wolff
MUMBAI: Infrastructure as Architecture
Katie O'Meara, Student ASLA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Anuradha Mathur
Rejuvenating the Channel-Scape—Wanquan Stream Channel Multi-Functional Planning and Design
Xuan Lu, Student ASLA
University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities campus, MN
faculty advisors: Robert Sykes, ASLA; Joseph Favour; Lance Neckar, ASLA, and Vincent deBritto
Exhibiting the Ground:
Applying Fire as a Design Element
for the Stapleton Community
Nieve Nielson, Student Affiliate ASLA
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
faculty advisors: Anthony Mazzeo and Adam Clack
OKRail 2025: Reclaiming Rural America
Cody Klein, Student ASLA, and
Seth Slifer, Student ASLA
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
faculty advisor: John R. Ritter, ASLA

The North Slope Vision Plan:
Balancing Systems in Repurposed Industrial Lands
Erin Lybeck, Associate ASLA;
Tarrigon Van Denburg, Associate ASLA;
G. Russell Wightman, Associate ASLA, and
Tony Ignacio, Associate ASLA
California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Philip N. Pregill, ASLA; Gerald O. Taylor Jr., ASLA; Susan Mulley and Doug Delgado
Honor Awards

Road Rights of Way: Connective Conduits,
Katy Amon, Student ASLA
The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
faculty advisors: Patrick Mooney, ASLA, and Ronald Kellett

Species Evolution On Steep Sloped Green Roofs
Erik Jones, Student ASLA;
Theresa Miller, Student ASLA;
Jeremy Monsma, Student ASLA, and
Jillian Puszykowski, Student ASLA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
faculty advisor: Joanne Westphal, FASLA
Honor Award

Tucson's Urban Wildlife Walk
Kimberly Creagan, Student ASLA
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
faculty advisors: Margaret Livingston, ASLA, Lauri Macmillan Johnson, ASLA, and
Elizabeth Scott, ASLA
Women in the Dirt: Landscape Architects Shaping California
Robyn Newkirk, Student ASLA;
Pavel Petrov, Student ASLA, and
Carolann R. Stoney, Student ASLA
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Philip N. Pregill, ASLA; Andrew O. Wilcox, ASLA; Susan Mulley; Chris Aykanian and James Becerra

Unspoken Borders 2009:
Ecologies of Inequality
Michelle Lin, Student ASLA;
Matthew Soule, Student ASLA;
Janelle Johnson, Student ASLA, and
Thabo Lenneiye, Student ASLA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Amy Hillier
Honor Award

International Student Center
Rain-Garden
Aarthi Padmanabhan, Student ASLA, and Jeremy Merrill, Student ASLA
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
faculty advisors: Lee R. Skabelund, ASLA, and Dennis Day, FASLA
Dead Tires on the Sidewalk, Dead Tired at the Bus Stop
Andrew Kanzler, Student ASLA
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Chris Aykanian, Claire Latane, ASLA, and Andy Wilcox, ASLA
Honor Award

Preservation and Progress: Choroni's Productive Traverse
Marisa Bernstein, Student ASLA, and
Nicolas Koff, Student Affiliate ASLA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: David Gouverneur



