On September 7, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2010 Student Awards.

Seven 2010 Daniels MLA thesis students were recognized:

You-Been Kim (MArch) and Matthew A. J. Brown received an Award of Excellence in the Student Collaboration category for Catalytic Integration: Redefining Desert Tourism (Faculty Advisor: Aziza Chaouni).

Zahra Awang received an Honor Award in the General Design category for Building Resilience: The Re-Charging of Tobago's Buccoo Reef Through Electro-Accumulation and Sustainable Infrastructure (Faculty Advisor: Robert Wright).

Honor Awards in the Analysis and Planning category went to Matthew A. J. Brown for Newfoundlandscape: Landscape as Rural Outport Regenerator (Faculty Advisor: Alissa North); Fadi Masoud for The Jordan Valley's New Border Reality (Faculty Advisor: Liat Margolis); Kyle Xuekun Yang for Last Grain: Revising the End of the Fossil Fuel Era and Canada's Oil Sands Legacy (Faculty Advisor: Alissa North); Stefania Mariotti for Filling the Gap: A new Productive Landbuilding Process for New Orleans, Louisiana (Faculty Advisor: Jane Wolff); and Alessandro Colavecchio for Northern Capital: A Potential Future for the Mackenzie River Delta (Faculty Advisor: Peter North).

Full project information, along with high resolution images can be viewed at www.asla.org/2010studentawards.   

As the top student awards within the profession, ASLA will present awards to 32 projects in the categories of General Design, Residential Design, Analysis and Planning, Communications, Research, Community Service and Student Collaboration. The ceremony and reception will take place on Monday, September 13, at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Washington, DC.

About ASLA
Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 16,000 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters. The Society's mission is to lead, to educate and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Members of the Society use their “ASLA” suffix after their names to denote membership and their commitment to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Learn more about landscape architecture online at www.asla.org.