The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) recently announced the 2020 Professional and Student Award winners, which included three projects by Weitzman students and three projects by Weitzman faculty. The ASLA Awards are internationally considered to be among the most prestigious in the field.

Professional Awards

• Award of Excellence (Urban Design Category)

Dilworth Park; OLIN; Laurie D. Olin, practice professor emeritus of landscape architecture, and Lucinda R. Sanders, adjunct professor of landscape architecture

• Honor Award (Analysis and Planning Category)

Fantasy Island: The Galapágos Archipelago; PEG office of landscape + architecture; Karen M’Closkey, associate professor of landscape architecture, and Keith VanDerSys, senior lecturer in landscape architecture

• Honor Award (Analysis and Planning Category)

Sensitive Structures: A Landscape Approach for Great Lakes Coasts; Healthy Port Futures; Sean Burkholder, The Andrew Gordon Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture

Student Awards

• Award of Excellence (Student Collaboration Category)

Designing a Green New Deal: Leila Bahrami; Chelsea Beroza; Allison Carr; Yvette Chen; Zachery Hammaker, ASLA; Sara Harmon; Tiffany Hudson; Katie Lample; John Michael LaSalle; Rob Levinthal; Katharine Pitstick, ASLA; Joshua Reaves; Will Smith; Jesse Weiss; Rosa Zedek, Student ASLA; Faculty Advisor: Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology

• Honor Award (Urban Design Category)

Eco-Agro-Urbanism: Envisioning a Productive Urban Future for Villa Nueva, Guatemala; Xu Han; Zihan Zhu, Student ASLA; Xiaofan Wu, Student ASLA; Faculty Advisor: David Gouverneur, associate professor of practice of landscape architecture

• Honor Award (Student Collaboration Category)

Lehigh Valley Catalyst: Reconnecting Communities to the Lehigh River’s History and Ecology; Melita Schmeckpeper; Shengyuan Zheng, Student ASLA; Shuyang Wang; Xiaofan Wu, Student ASLA; Margarida Gomes Mota; Lucy Whitacre; Josh Ketchum; Elisavet Kiretsi; Cari Krol, Student ASLA; A. L. McCullough, Student ASLA; Farre Nixon; Linghui Liao; Faculty Advisor: Ellen Neises, adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture and executive director of PennPraxis