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American Society of Landscape Architects Announces its 2026 Student Awards
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American Society of Landscape Architects Announces its 2026 Student Awards
39 Student Award winners elevate the future of the landscape architecture profession
ASLA 2026 Student General Design Award of Excellence. The Invisible Meadow: A Perceptive Approach to Seagrass Restoration. Miami, Florida, United States. Desi Roch-Hernandez, Student ASLA; Faculty Advisor: Yi Luo, ASLA. University of Florida
Desi Roch-Hernandez
Today, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2026 ASLA Student Awards. This year, 39 projects were chosen as winners. Winners showcase innovation and represent the highest level of achievement among the future of the profession.
"Today's student award winners are tomorrow's landscape architecture and community planning leaders," said ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen, Hon. ASLA. "Their projects support sustainability, equity, healthy infrastructure, and more, illustrating the critical importance of landscape architects and landscape architecture training."
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. This year's 39 winners were chosen out of 513 entries.
Analysis and Planning
Sponsored by USA Shade
Honor Award
Let the Hills Hold: Eco-Social Reknitting after Wayanad's Landslides
Soochow University
Honor Award
Saxis 2090: From Resistance to Resilience through Dredged Landscapes
University of Virginia
Honor Award
Living After the Feedlot: Restoring Yucatán's Karst Territory
Beijing Forestry University
Honor Award
Rooted Futures: Multi-Temporal Strategies for Coastal Tree Systems
Harvard University
Honor Award
Form Follows Forest: A Tree Driven Urban Design for Charlestown, MA
Harvard University
Honor Award
A Ground for Change: Regenerating Cultural Landscapes on Pine Island
University of Florida
Honor Award
Tracks of Transfer
Washington University in St. Louis
Honor Award
Making Up Ground: New Language for the Wasteland
Ohio State University
Communications
Sponsored by Soft Play
Award of Excellence
What's Your Sign?
University of Oregon
Honor Award
Growing Impact: Advancing Knowledge of Urban Desert Tree Care
University of Arizona
Honor Award
Paillettesage
University of Oregon
Honor Award
Root and Relationship: Sharing the Complexities of Planting Design
University of Georgia
General Design
Sponsored by Miracle Recreation
Award of Excellence
The Invisible Meadow: A Perceptive Approach to Seagrass Restoration
University of Florida
Honor Award
Fluid Itineraries: Rewetting Hobrechtsfelde
Harvard University
Honor Award
re-Wrighting Decay: A Regenerative Form of Cyclical Forest Stewardship
University of Toronto
Honor Award
Unearthing Wildness: On the Future of Urban Wilds
Harvard University
Honor Award
Greenlawn Cemetery Memorial Park & Garden
Ball State University
Honor Award
After Waste: A Post-Landfill Regeneration Framework
Cornell University
Honor Award
Where Flamingos Return, Life Returns
Harvard University
Research
Sponsored by Little Tikes Commercial
Award of Excellence
Between Line and Land
University of British Columbia
Honor Award
Tangier Island Watermen Working Landscape
University of Virginia
Honor Award
When Heat Does Not Stop Walking? Landscape Adaptation for Older Adults
Texas A&M University
Honor Award
Safety Beyond Surveillance: Guidelines for Safe Urban Public Spaces
Florida International University
Residential Design
Sponsored by EZ Dock
Honor Award
Grasses That Glow: Neighborhood Agency through Practices of Care
University of Virginia
Honor Award
Trees, Bricks, and Debris: Rebuild Bunker Hill Housing Memory
Harvard University
Student Collaboration: Communications
Honor Award
UnderStory
University of Florida
Honor Award
One Health Games: Playful Learning for Riverine Resilience
Pennsylvania State University
Student Collaboration: Analysis and Planning
Honor Award
Mayors' Workshop: A Civic Hydrology for Brewers Creek Watershed
Iowa State University
Student Collaboration: General Design
Honor Award
Harper Preserve: Agrivoltaic Research Park + Community Center
University of Michigan
Student Collaboration: Student Community Service Award
Award of Excellence
The Firelighters
University of California, Davis
Student Community Service Award
Sponsored by Wabash Valley
Award of Excellence
Labores y Diseños
Colorado State University
Honor Award
Rooted Together: Where Campus and Community Find Common Ground
Sung Kyun Kwan University
Honor Award
Learning Through Motion: A Landscape Shaped by Elementary Students
Mississippi State University
Urban Design
Sponsored by Playworld
Award of Excellence
Roots Over Roads: Reclaiming Oakland's I-980 Corridor
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Honor Award
Ciudad Tlatelolco: Return Home
North Carolina State University
Honor Award
Atmospheric Springs: The Future of Fog in Los Angeles
Harvard University
Honor Award
A Botanical and Inclusive Vision for Escobedo
University of Pennsylvania
Honor Award
From Dumping Grounds to Living Systems
Texas A&M University
Honor Award
Catalyzing with Water
Harvard University
The Juries
The prestige of the ASLA awards program relies in large part on the high caliber of the juries convened each year to review submissions. The ASLA Honors and Awards Advisory Committee seeks to assemble juries that represent the breadth of the profession, including private, public, institutional, and academic practice, and exemplify diversity in professional experience, geography, gender, and ethnicity.
Student Jury 1-General Design, Residential Design, Urban Design, Collaboration
Chair:
Ebru Özer, FASLA
Florida International University
Miami, FL
Patricia Algara, FASLA
BASE Landscape Architecture
San Francisco, CA
Kristina Floor, FASLA
Floor Associates
Phoenix, AZ
Jonathan Hayes, ASLA
Anchorage Museum
Anchorage, AK
Jose de Jesus Leal, FASLA
MIG, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
Scott Lewis, ASLA
Scott Lewis Landscape Architecture
San Francisco, CA
Danielle Pieranunzi, SITES AP, LEED AP BD+C, Hon. ASLA
U.S. Green Building Council
Washington, DC
Daniel Winterbottom, FASLA
Washington State University
Seattle, WA
Student Jury 2-Analysis & Planning, Communications, Research, Community Service
Chair:
Nina Chase, ASLA
Merritt Chase
Pittsburgh, PA
Charles Crawford, FASLA
The Lamar Johnson Collaborative
St. Louis, MO
Ron Henderson, FASLA
LIRIO Landscape Architecture
Newport, RI
Tod Hueser, ASLA
City of Olathe
Shawnee Mission, KS
Janelle Johnson, ASLA
OLIN
Philadelphia, PA
Carley Rickles, ASLA
Martin Rickles Studio
Atlanta, GA
Timothy Schuler
Journalist, Places Journal
Manhattan, KS
Steven Spears, FASLA
GroundWork Development Company
Austin, TX
April Westcott, FASLA
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
2026 ASLA Student Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 ASLA Student Awards, which celebrate outstanding student work demonstrating design excellence, critical thinking, creativity, and a strong understanding of landscape architecture's role in shaping communities and environments.
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