We are thrilled to announce the full 2021 BSLA Design Awards Jury |
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Please join us in welcoming esteemed guest juror, Kona Gray, FASLA.
Kona is principal at EDSA, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a past president of the board of the Landscape Architecture Foundation. The pandemic's virtual meeting practices have enabled us to fulfill a longtime goal, and that is to bring an internationally recognized landscape architecture voice to this jury -- an esteemed voice from outside of the chapter. We're enormously grateful for Kona's fresh perspective. Kona also brings local roots: he was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and began studying design at the Boston Architectural College.
Please help us welcome Kona virtually back to Boston. Kona, we look forward to the day when we can welcome you in person, too.
We are also pleased to share that Steve Woods and Tina Yun-Ting Tsai, Student ASLA, are joining the 2021 Awards jury. Steve is a senior associate at IBI Placemaking where he has led the creative direction of a wide variety of projects since joining Carol R. Johnson Associates in 2001, as the firm was then known. Tina is a 2020 graduate of Harvard Graduate School of Design, currently a landscape designer at STIMSON, and winner of the 2020 BSLA Award of Excellence for Student work.
Kona, Steve, and Tina join last year's pre-jury. In recent years, jury service was a two year commitment -- one year on the "pre jury," the second year on the Awards jury. An innovation in the 2021 Awards process is condensing jury service to one year. As we navigate this transition, we are honored that last year's pre-jury is continuing their multi-year leadership in this year's Awards process. Thank you to the incredible
Sara Cohen, ASLA | ASK+ and Rhode Island School of Design
Sam Coplan, FASLA | Coplon Associates
Eamonn Hutton, ASLA | Agency Landscape + Planning
Patricia McGirr | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Liza Meyer, ASLA | City of Boston Department of Parks & Recreation
Michael Sardina | Brown + Sardina
William Shivers, Assoc. ASLA | PhD Student, University of Virginia
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Kate Tooke, ASLA | Sasaki
for your ongoing service to BSLA Design Awards.
Please join us in welcoming the full 2021 BSLA Awards jury.
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Above: at top, Kona Gray. From left to right, in alphabetical order, top row: Sara Cohen, Sam Coplan, Eamonn Hutton, Patricia McGirr, Liza Meyer. Bottom row: Michael Sardina, William Shivers, Kate Tooke, Tina Yun Ting Tsai, Steve Woods. |
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REMINDER: The 2021 BSLA Design Awards "Standard Registration" Deadline is tonight.
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Don't delay, submit today! Rates go up at midnight.
Registration, payment, and submission upload are all in one step.
The final possible deadline to submit is midnight next Monday, April 5. More details below and in the Call for Entries.
If you missed the Q&A session, that recording is here. (Passcode: 3V54@cJ$)
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FOR REFERENCE: 2021 BSLA Design Awards Info
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Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) seeks to recognize excellence in the diverse practices of landscape architecture.
Landscape Architects are encouraged to submit their best professional work for review by the 2021 BSLA Awards Program Jury. Projects should demonstrate excellence and reflect the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environment.
Submitted projects should merit recognition in one or more of the following areas:
• Exemplary social, cultural, educational, or environmental significance
• Outstanding quality, craftsmanship, creativity, or artistry
• Unique and innovative technologies, techniques, or concepts
• Advancement of the public’s awareness and perception of the field of landscape architecture
Awards will be granted in LANDMARK, PROFESSIONAL, and STUDENT categories, for design, analysis & planning, communication, and research projects. Student and Professional awards will be recognized at the levels of Excellence, Honor, and Merit.
Landscape architects and students based in the BSLA Chapter area — Massachusetts and Maine — are eligible to submit projects sited anywhere. Likewise, projects sited within Massachusetts and Maine may be submitted regardless of where the design office is located. There are price discounts for BSLA/ASLA members, though one does not need to be a member to submit a project to the BSLA Awards Program.
NEW IN 2021: EMERGING FIRM AWARD
Celebrates a firm 5 years or younger that showcases innovative thinking/action in the design realm. Firms that wish to be considered should go ahead and submit to another Professional Award Category. Indicate on the intake form that you’re an “Emerging Firm.” There is no fee to be considered. Firms that have previously received a BSLA Professional Award are not eligible.
NEW IN 2021: JURY SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS
Recognizes projects for their efforts in areas of climate resilience, big impacts with low budgets, community service, and social equity and justice, among many other potential categories. Specific Recognitions will be determined within this framework by the Jury.
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Please note that it’s a single-step entry process. Registration, fee payment, and materials upload all take place in one transaction. (This is different than some prior years, and different than ASLA National.) Registration fees will increase as the final deadline approaches, and will be adjusted following midnight EST on the dates listed below.
CRITICAL DATES
Standard Registration + Upload
through Monday, March 29, 2021
LAST CALL
through Monday, April 5, 2021, MIDNIGHT EST
All submissions due no later than midnight Monday, April 5, 2021.
Jury Review will take place in May.
Award Winners will be announced in June.
Due to the pandemic, we don’t know yet what form the 2021 BSLA Design Awards Celebration will take — online or in-person or hybrid. Regardless, there will be some sort of public celebration!
We look forward to celebrating your best work!
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Images, top, in red header: Lafayette Park, Salem, Massachusetts. Landscape Architect: Crowley Cottrell. 2020 BSLA Award of Merit in Design.
Above, from top: Returning to the River: Water as Public Space. Landscape Architecture Student: Estello Raganit, Harvard GSD. 2020 BSLA Merit Award in Design.
Middle: Solitare Residence Tower, Taichung, Taiwan. Landscape Architect: Landworks Studio. 2020 BSLA Award of Merit in Design.
Bottom: Beach House, Coastal Massachusetts. Landscape Architect: Studio 2112. 2020 BSLA Award of Merit in Design.
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