Award of Excellence
The White Forest: Density and the Void
Frederick G. Besançon, Associate ASLA
Providence, RI
faculty advisors: Isabel Zempel and
Elke Berger
Honor Awards
- Reconciling Purity and Nature: A Bathing Pool for Daingerfield Island
Allison Thurmond, Student ASLA
Alexandria, VA
faculty advisors: Paul Kelsch, Ph.D., ASLA, and Paul Emmons, Ph.D., RA - LOOPSCAPE
Kyung Eui Park, Associate ASLA
Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Valerio Morabito - Living with Floods
Chen-Wei Wu, Student Affiliate ASLA;
Shih-Chia Chiu, Student Affiliate ASLA;
I-Chun Chien, Student Affiliate ASLA;
Shih-Yeu Hou, Student Affiliate ASLA, and
Jheng-Ru Li, Student Affiliate ASLA
Taipei, Taiwan
faculty advisors: Shiau-Yun Lu and Shian-Po Liao
Honor Award
- The Productive Landscape:
Urban Housing for Autistic Adults
John Gough, Student ASLA, and
Adam C. Nordfors, Student ALSA
Tempe, AZ
faculty advisor: Kim Steele
Award of Excellence
Switching Trajectories in the Rhine Delta
Matanya Sack, Student Affiliate ASLA, and
Liesl Vanautgaerden, Student Affiliate ASLA
Zurich, Switzerland
faculty advisors: Christophe Girot and Sebastien Marot
Honor Awards
- Remediation Infrastructure:
A Comprehensive Development Strategy for the Remediation of the Gowanus Canal
Heather Fuhrman, Associate ASLA
New York, NY
faculty advisors: Achva Benzinberg-Stein, FASLA; Denise Hoffman-Brandt and
Hanque Macari - Wild North vs. Rational Port Landscape Architecture Articulates a New Northern Portscape Near Moosonee, Ontario
Courtney Likins, Student ASLA
Toronto, Canada
faculty advisor: Jane Wolff - MUMBAI: Infrastructure as Architecture
Katie O'Meara, Student ASLA
Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Anuradha Mathur - Rejuvenating the Channel-Scape—Wanquan Stream Channel Multi-Functional Planning and Design
Xuan Lu, Student ASLA
Twin Cities campus, MN
faculty advisors: Robert Sykes, ASLA; Joseph Favour; Lance Neckar, ASLA, and Vincent deBritto - Exhibiting the Ground:
Applying Fire as a Design Element
for the Stapleton Community
Nieve Nielson, Student Affiliate ASLA
Denver, CO
faculty advisors: Anthony Mazzeo and Adam Clack - OKRail 2025: Reclaiming Rural America
Cody Klein, Student ASLA, and
Seth Slifer, Student ASLA
Stillwater, OK
faculty advisor: John R. Ritter, ASLA - The North Slope Vision Plan:
Balancing Systems in Repurposed Industrial Lands
Erin Lybeck, Associate ASLA;
Tarrigon Van Denburg, Associate ASLA;
G. Russell Wightman, Associate ASLA, and
Tony Ignacio, Associate ASLA
Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Philip N. Pregill, ASLA; Gerald O. Taylor Jr., ASLA; Susan Mulley and Doug Delgado
Honor Awards
- Road Rights of Way: Connective Conduits,
Katy Amon, Student ASLA
Vancouver, Canada
faculty advisors: Patrick Mooney, ASLA, and Ronald Kellett - Species Evolution On Steep Sloped Green Roofs
Erik Jones, Student ASLA;
Theresa Miller, Student ASLA;
Jeremy Monsma, Student ASLA, and
Jillian Puszykowski, Student ASLA
East Lansing, MI
faculty advisor: Joanne Westphal, FASLA
Honor Award
- Tucson's Urban Wildlife Walk
Kimberly Creagan, Student ASLA
Tucson, AZ
faculty advisors: Margaret Livingston, ASLA, Lauri Macmillan Johnson, ASLA, and
Elizabeth Scott, ASLA - Women in the Dirt: Landscape Architects Shaping California
Robyn Newkirk, Student ASLA;
Pavel Petrov, Student ASLA, and
Carolann R. Stoney, Student ASLA
Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Philip N. Pregill, ASLA; Andrew O. Wilcox, ASLA; Susan Mulley; Chris Aykanian and James Becerra - Unspoken Borders 2009:
Ecologies of Inequality
Michelle Lin, Student ASLA;
Matthew Soule, Student ASLA;
Janelle Johnson, Student ASLA, and
Thabo Lenneiye, Student ASLA
Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: Amy Hillier
Honor Award
- International Student Center
Rain-Garden
Aarthi Padmanabhan, Student ASLA, and Jeremy Merrill, Student ASLA
Manhattan, KS
faculty advisors: Lee R. Skabelund, ASLA, and Dennis Day, FASLA - Dead Tires on the Sidewalk, Dead Tired at the Bus Stop
Andrew Kanzler, Student ASLA
Pomona, CA
faculty advisors: Chris Aykanian, Claire Latane, ASLA, and Andy Wilcox, ASLA
Honor Award
- Preservation and Progress: Choroni's Productive Traverse
Marisa Bernstein, Student ASLA, and
Nicolas Koff, Student Affiliate ASLA
Philadelphia, PA
faculty advisor: David Gouverneur