Awards 2012
Shilshole Bay Beach Club
6413 Seaview Ave NWSeattle, WA 98107
Thursday April 26th Registration will open March 1st. More information to come.
Awards Categories:
General Design
Residential Design/Design Build
Research, Planning and Analysis
Public Works
Works in Progress
Jury:
Andrea Cochran
Andrea has been practicing landscape architecture in the San Francisco Bay area for over twenty-five years. She graduated from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and worked on the East Coast and in Europe before moving to California in 1981. After working in collaborative partnerships for over ten years, she established Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture in 1998. In 2007, Ms. Cochran was inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has been a finalist in Landscape Architecture for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards in 2006, 2009, and 2010. Her work has earned numerous awards, most recently an ASLA Honor Award in General Design for the Nueva School. A monograph of her work was published by Princeton Architectural Press in May of 2009.
Kevin Holden
Kevin is the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) National Lead and Technical Proponent for Landscape Architecture. His 20 years of USACE experience, with a diverse range of project types, is founded on site planning and design, and includes technical management, mission management (hurricane Katrina recovery operations), and teaming with other disciplines and services in the development of national criteria and standards. With several design awards to his credit, recognized as an innovative problem solver, in 2006 he was selected as the USACE Landscape Architect of the Year and since that time has served USACE at the national level.
Lauren Meléndrez
Lauren Melendrez, FASLA is past President and CEO of Meléndrez, a Los Angeles Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning firm. She and her firm have been responsible for the design and planning of numerous high profile, award-winning projects such as Staples Center, the LA Police Headquarters, and the L.A. Civic Center's "10-Minute Diamond Plan", all of which have been catalysts for the revitalization of downtown Los Angeles. Because of her extensive knowledge of landscape architecture and urban design issues, Lauren has been appointed to many boards, task forces, and committees to address development of related policies within the Los Angeles region. Lauren is featured in the recent documentary film about women in landscape architecture, Women in the Dirt.
Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Ignacio is a landscape architect and urban designer whose work is consistently recognized for design innovation. He is a leading practitioner of Landscape Urbanism, an approach to urban design based on the fusion of ecology, community identity, infrastructure, recreation, and public art. Ignacio continues to develop and refine this practice as he directs WRT's landscape architecture studio in Philadelphia and many of the firm's large-scale landscape projects. Ignacio is a Harvard Loeb Fellow and periodically lectures, teaches, writes, and serves on design award juries.
