ASLA Releases 2005 Awards Call for Entries

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has released its 2005 Awards Call for Entries.

The program features five categories of professional and student awards, including:

• General Design
• Residential Design, a new category in partnership with Garden Design magazine
• Analysis and Planning
• Research
• Communications

The call for entries also includes the Community Service Award, recognizing landscape architects and landscape architecture students providing pro bono service to the community, and the Landmark Award, recognizing a project completed between 15 and 50 years ago, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The deadline for receipt of the entry form is Friday, May 13, 2005, and submission materials must be received by Friday, May 27, 2005. Professional and student award recipients, their clients, and faculty advisors will be honored in a ceremony followed by a luncheon at the ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo, on Monday, Oct. 10, 2005, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The professional awards jury convening in June will include Jury Chair Gary Hilderbrand, FASLA, principal, Reed Hilderbrand Associates, Watertown, Mass; and jurors:

• Beth Dunlop, architecture critic, The Miami Herald, Miami, Fla.;
• Edward Feiner, FAIA, Honorary ASLA, former chief architect, U.S. General Services Administration, director, Washington Center, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Washington, D.C.;
• Terence Harkness, FASLA, professor of landscape architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
• Todd Johnson, FASLA, principal and chief design officer, Design Workshop, Denver, Colo.;
• Miriam Lehrer, ASLA, founding principal, Mia Lehrer + Associates, Los Angeles, Calif.;
• Mario Schjetnan, FASLA, Grupo de Diseno Urbano, Mexico City, Mexico;
• Suzanne Turner, FASLA, professor emerita, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La.;
• Barbara Wilks, FAIA, ASLA, founding principal, W Architecture & Landscape Architecture, New York, N.Y.
• Bill Marken, editor-in-chief, Garden Design magazine, Los Altos, Calif., will join the jury in considering submissions in the Residential Design category; and
• Karen Jessup will join the awards jury in considering submissions for the Landmark Award, representing the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The student awards jury includes Jury Chair Frederick Steiner, FASLA, dean, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin; and jurors:

• F. Christopher Dimond, FASLA, AICP, senior vice president & chairman, Urban Design & Planning Services, HNTB Corporation, Kansas City, Mo.;
• Ilze Jones, FASLA, AIA, president, Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, Seattle, Wash.;
• Mikyoung Kim, ASLA, principal, Mikyoung Kim Design, associate professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Boston, Mass.;
• M. Ann Mullins, FASLA, campus landscape architect, University of Colorado at Boulder;
• Kenneth Smith, ASLA, principal, Ken Smith Landscape Architect, New York, N.Y.; and
• Susan Szenasy, editor-in-chief, Metropolis magazine, New York, N.Y.

Last year, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, Charlottesville, Va., and Peter Walker & Partners, Berkeley, Calif., won awards of honor in the design category. Urban Strategies of Toronto, Ontatrio, Canada took home an award of excellence in the analysis and planning categories. In all, 33 companies were honored with awards in 2004 and all winning entreies can be found on ASLA's Web site by clicking here.