American Society of Landscape Architects Announces its 2026 Student Awards

39 Student Award winners elevate the future of the landscape architecture profession

Washington, D.C., Aug. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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. All project winners and their schools are listed below. Full details can be found at www.asla.org/2026studentawards.

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 39 winners were chosen out of 513 entries.

"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.”

Thank you to our Professional & Student Awards Presenting Sponsor, PlayPower.

Award recipients will be honored in person at the Awards Ceremony during the ASLA 2026 Conference on Landscape Architecture in Los Angeles, Calif., on Wednesday, September 16.

Media are invited to attend the ceremony and the conference; please email press@asla.org for credentials. For more information, visit www.aslaconference.com.

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Awards Categories

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

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

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