ASLA unveils 30 winning landscape architecture projects for the 2023 Student Awards

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced the winners of their 2023 Student Awards, following the Professional Awards we published here. A total of 30 projects were honored as part of the awards, which the institute says represent a “bright future for the landscape architecture profession.”

Jury panels representing a broad cross-section of the profession, from the public and private sectors and academia, selected the winners out of 372 entries. The award recipients will be honored in person at an awards ceremony during the ASLA 2023 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Minneapolis on October 27–30.

“These award winners are the brightest stars in landscape architecture programs around the country and internationally,” said ASLA CEO Torey Carter-Conneen. “When I visit campuses, I’m so impressed and energized by the way our students are committed to helping communities solve some of the biggest challenges. The projects represented in these awards speak to that commitment.”

The winning entries are as follows:

GENERAL DESIGN

Award of Excellence

Reviving Yanomami Rights: Plant Matrix for Mercury

• Students: Yuxin Jiang, Wei Gui; Zhengfei Yan, Yingjie Hu, Yunshan Wan, Shiqian Yang.
• Affiliations: Shanghai Jiaotong University, Sichuan University, Southeast University, China Architecture Design & Research

Honor Awards

A Self-Help Plan Based on Productive Green Space Systems

• Students: Yu Wang, Jiayan Zhou, Yuhan Liu, Xinyu Li, Xinyi Bao,
• Affiliation: Huazhong Agricultural University

Re(de)fining Decomposition

• Student: Joyce Fong
• Affiliation: University of Virginia

The Oasis of Baer's Pochard : Humanity in Harmony with Wetlands

• Students: Yaqi Liu, Zijing Wan, Ruoshui Wang, Xiangyi Wang
• Affiliation: Wuhan University/ Huazhong Agricultural University

RESIDENTIAL DESIGN

Honor Awards

From Shelter to Home

• Christina J Hardeman, Mckenna O'Neill, Candi Rosario, Kady Shiro, Cameron Coronado, Tressa Cummings, Giffin Glastonbury, Sarah Goldstein, Katherine Harrison, Basil Khalid, Ted Meyer, Holly Phares, Tristan Matlock, Jac Noland
• Affiliation: University of Oregon

Gentrification Vaccine: a pioneering housing paradigm for Long Beach

• Students: Shengtao Shen, Yifei Liang
• Affiliation: Sichuan Agricultural University

URBAN DESIGN

Honor Awards

Harvest the Wind: Reshaping Urban Heat Island Through Urban Farming

• Students: Wenxin Sun, Kunyu Wang, Yi Ma, Emily Zhai
• Affiliation: Soochow University & Louisiana State University 

The Gift of Volcanoes

• Students: Shuai Jiang, Xinyue Liu, Ziyun Yan, Sibei Dong, Yujing Wu, Tengfei Yu
• Affiliation: Chongqing University; Milan Polytechnic University; University College London

STUDENT COMMUNITY SERVICE

Award of Excellence

Rooted in Resiliency

• Students: Jordyn Kloss, Daniela Paez, Josh Pollastrini, Elijah Williams, Hailey Holder, Cheyenne Gebhart, Tara Tilstra, Johanna Roszhart, Grace Pollack
• Affiliation: Iowa State University

Honor Award

Collaboration & Sharing: Promoting Healthy Life in a Low-Income Community

• Students: Zihao He, Wenyi Sun, Saibo Li, Mengmeng Li, Nan Liu, Lang Qing, Qi Zhang, Yuting Wang, Haoyu Li, Tong Wu, Shuo Li, Suheng Yao, Shuohan Qiu; Hui Xu, Man Zhang
• Affiliation: Anhui University

 ANALYSIS & PLANNING

Honor Awards

Confrontation or Symbiosis

• Students: Jia Jia, Ruonan Li, Yalin Zhai, You Zuo, Yezhen Xu; Nan Lin, Jiyuan Fang
• Affiliation: Northeast Forestry University, Tongji University 

Design Tactics for Climate-Based Migration in Biodiversity Corridors

• Student: Marybeth Campeau
• Affiliation: North Carolina State University

Designing Healthy Places in the American South: Montezuma, Georgia

• Student: Brooke Freeman
• Affiliation: University of Georgia

Hydrological Enclave: Adaptive Management of Non-water Supply Reservoir

• Student: Shuyang Sun
• Affiliation: University of Hong Kong

Retrieve the Lost Treasure: Forest Rehabilitation in Madagascar

• Students: Pu Wang, Siqun Zhang, Nomena Joelle Rakotonjanabelo
• Affiliation: Southeast University

STUDENT COLLABORATION

Award of Excellence

On the Edge: A Climate Adaptive Park for the Battleship NC Memorial

• Students: Marguerite Kroening, Stella Wang
• Affiliations: North Carolina State University

Honor Awards

Caretakers + Placemakers of New Orleans

• Students: Omid Elhami; Georgia DeWitt, Morgana Tetherow-Keller, Rachael Gautier
• Affiliation: Louisiana State University

Dynamic Roots

• Students: Dillon Patel, Joseph Lamonica, Stephany Luna-Rivas
• Affiliations: North Carolina State University

COMMUNICATIONS

Honor Awards

Art (that) Worlds: Design Guidelines for Equitable Public Art

• Student: Katherine Herrera
• Affiliation: Kansas State University

Children's Book and Learning Games on Indiana Native Plants & Habitats

• Students: Chloe Kennedy, Kayla Kramer, Molly Wimberg, Wanting Zhang
• Affiliation: Purdue University

Point of Confluence: Re-thinking Large Landscape Infrastructure Design

• Students: Leslie Dinkin, Lucia Bayley
• Affiliation: University of Southern California

The UC Davis Sheepmowers Project

• Student: Chaoxun Yuan
• Affiliation: University of California, Davis 

Walk to Learn: Exploratory Children's Field Journal for Epping Way

• Student: Nicole Columbus Norman
• Affiliation: Mississippi State University

RESEARCH

Award of Excellence

The Play Value of Plants

• Student: Nazia Afrin Trina
• Affiliation: Texas Tech University

Honor Awards

Advancing Trauma-Informed Landscape Architecture

• Student: Lauren Joca
• Affiliation: North Carolina State University

Built on Thawing Ice: Socio-Ecological Design in a Warming Arctic City

• Students: Judy Shao-Yu Chen, Yizhuo Chen, Yash Gadam, Jessica Huang, Mijeong Jung, Amy Schulz; Phoebe Tamminen, Nita Wareechatchai, Chen Yu; Yi Zhu
• Affiliation: University of Virginia

Designing Spectrums

• Student: Benjamin Jensen
• Affiliation: Cornell University

Equity in Landscape Architecture: Black Students’ Perspectives

• Student: Ayana Belk
• Affiliation: Kansas State University

Toward Dynamic Optimization: Combining AI and EBHDL for the Elderly

• Students: Haiwei Li, Zhitong Zhang, Kang Liu, Wanjing Chen, Wei Wei, Xinyi Liu, Jiehang Xie, Mi Zhang, Zhishan Huang, Min Zhong, Yongle Zhang, Chuling Cai, Xixi Huang, Yongqi Hou, Xiaolin Lin
• Affiliation: South China Agricultural University

Unearthing Water Efficiency: Clay Pot Irrigation Design & Fabrication

• Student: Hannah Chapin
• Affiliation: University of Oregon