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Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ Announces 2025 Student Awards

Thirty-four Student Award winners elevate the future of the landscape architecture profession

2025-09-02
Student AwardsË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ 2025 Student Communications Award of Excellence. Stewards of Pyrran: A Game of Fire, Care, and Cooperation. Melissa Tan, Student Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. Faculty Advisor: Emily Schlickman, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ. University of California, Davis


Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ has announced its 2025 Student Awards. Winners showcase innovation and represent the highest level of achievement among the future of the profession. All project winners and their schools are listed below.

Jury panels representing a broad cross-section of the profession, from the public and private sectors, and academia, select winners each year and are listed below. The 34 winners were chosen out of 502 entries.

"What an incredible display of talent," said Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ CEO Torey Carter-Conneen. "I'm so proud of the talent and advocacy at the heart of these projects because they reflect a deep commitment to tackle the thorny issues communities face."

Award recipients will be honored in person at the awards presentation ceremony during the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ 2025 Conference on Landscape Architecture in New Orleans, LA, on Saturday, October 11. Media are invited to attend; please email press@asla.org for credentials. For more information, visit .

Members of the media, please contact press@asla.org to request hi-res images.

?Award Categories

General Design

Award of Excellence?
Opaque Ground: Reimagining Human-Soil Relations in the Lower
Don University of Toronto?

Honor Award
Working with Beaver Engineers: First Step in Restoring Eco-Corridors Beijing Forestry University
Beijing Forestry University, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and University of California, Berkeley?

Honor Award
From Ruins to Roots: Healing through Unity, Growing for the Future
University of Pennsylvania?

Honor Award
From River to Seabed: Vertical Solutions for Sea Barren Ground
Kyung Hee University?

Honor Award
Riverfront Stitch: Mending Cleveland¡¯s Industrial Valley
Kent State University??

Honor Award
Seeding the Shoreline: A Living Armature for Pengambengan¡¯s Future
Xi¡¯an University of Architecture & Technology and Sichuan Agricultural University?

Honor Award
Reclaimed Edges: Uncovering History, Designing Resilient Futures?
Harvard University??

Honor Award
After the Ashes
University of Oregon?

Honor Award
Soundscapes as Ecology: Designing for Natural Rhythms
Ohio State University?

Residential Design

Award of Excellence
Monsoon Memory: Khmer Hydro-Traditionalism for Community Resilience
Soochow University?

Urban Design

Award of Excellence
Kipuka Wai¡± Weaving Ahupua¡¯a Wisdom for the Hawaiian Goby¡¯s Voyage
Soochow University??

Honor Award
Mitigating Seoul¡¯s Half-Basement Floods: Green Justice in Action
Soochow University?

Honor Award
Lugar de Encontro/ Landscape of Encounters
University of Pennsylvania?

Honor Award
The Oasis Effect: Reclaiming Tunis¡¯s Indigenous Water Systems
Harvard University?

Student Collaboration

Award of Excellence
Re-Wetting Grossbeeren
Harvard University?

Honor Award
THE URBAN FARM EXPANSION: Design by the Community for the Community? ?
University of Oregon?

Honor Award
TREES ALIVE! Techniques, Details, Traditions
Illinois Institute of Technology and The University of Tokyo Crownsville Hospital Memorial Park: A Landscape of Healing and Renewal

Analysis & Planning

Award of Excellence
Stabilizing Thawing Ground: Meltwater Management in Utqiagvik, Alaska?
University of Virginia?

Honor Award?
Reweaving the Water Networks: Casarabe Wisdom for the Llanos de Mojos? ?
Southwest Jiaotong University, Xi¡¯an University of Architecture & Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, and Sichuan Agricultural University?

Honor Award
Auwai Revived: Integrated Ecological Strategies from Mountains to Sea
Beijing Forestry University and Fujian University of Technology?

Honor Award
Beyond the Channel: Reconnecting a Resilient Arroyo Seco
California State Polytechnic University at Pomona?

Honor Award
Heart of the Great Lakes
Hefei University of Technology, Chongqing Jiaotong University, and Soochow University?

Honor Award
Power Lines and Beating Hearts: The Body Electric in the Energy Future
Harvard University?

Honor Award
Floods & Beasts: Adaptation Strategies for Sundarbans Border Communities
Shanghai University, Beijing Forestry University, and Chongqing University?

Honor Award
The Haunt of Mobile: Reconnecting Down the Bay
Auburn University?

Communications

Award of Excellence
Stewards of Pyrran: A Game of Fire, Care, and Cooperation
University of California, Davis?

Honor Award
Shifting Terrains: Glacial Debris and Flow
University of Virginia?

Honor Award
SOLARPUNK: Recovering the Lost Art of Landscape
University of British Columbia?

Honor Award
Way to the Park?
Macau University of Science and Technology Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ Time: Adaptive Management for Coastal Salt Marshes

Research

Award of Excellence?
HAIL: Healthy Aging through Intergenerational Living
Texas A&M University?

Honor Award
Overlooked Carbon Contributions of Urban Green Spaces
Beijing Forestry University, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign?

Honor Award
Reimagining Residential Landscapes in the Pacific Palisades
Purdue University?

Student Community Service

Award of Excellence
Stimulating the Senses, A Calming Retreat in a Skilled Nursing Setting
University of Washington?

Honor Award
Nasi Ulam Forest Garden as a Living Lab
National University of Singapore?

?The 2025 Student Awards Juries

Jury: General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design & Student Collaboration

Jury Chair: Lauren Stimson, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, STIMSON

Members:

  • Diana Budds, Fast Company, Architect¡¯s Paper.?
  • Nathaniel Cormier, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, RIOS?
  • Swati Khimesra, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Surface 678?
  • John Leys, Sherwood Design Engineers?
  • Nancy Monteith, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, City of Salt Lake City?
  • Ebru ?zer, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Florida International University?
  • Janet Rosenberg, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Janet Rosenberg & Studio?
  • Brett Weidl, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, MKSK?
  • Jury: Analysis & Planning, Research, Communications & Student Community Service

    Jury Chair: Haley Blakeman, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Moffat and Nichol?

    Members:

  • Kewiji Asakura, FË¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Asakura Robinson ¨C Houston?
  • Nina Chase, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Merritt Chase?
  • Gonzalo Cruz, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, AECOM?
  • David Goldberg, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Penn State University?
  • Michael Tunte, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, City of Aspen?
  • Claire Weisz, Hon Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, FAIA, WXY?
  • Marcel Wilson, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ, Bionic?
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