The American Society of Landscape Architects is highlighting several students of Latinx descent who recently won ASLA 2018 Student Awards. The winners, selected by a jury in a highly competitive process, will be honored at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, on Monday, October 22.
ASLA’s annual Student Awards program honors the best work by landscape architecture students in design, planning, research, and community service.
Rivera Ramos, a student at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, created El Retorno a la Tierra/Going Back To the Land.
Ramos’s project presents strategies that Puerto Rican communities could use to produce their own food and be self-sufficient. The project received the ASLA 2018 Student Award of Excellence in the analysis and planning category.
The Public Space Design Guidelines for Saltillo, Mexico project received an ASLA 2018 Honor Award in the communications category.
For this project, a team of students at the University of Texas at Austin worked with the Planning Institute of Saltillo to develop urban design guidelines for the city of Saltillo, Mexico. Their objective was to improve the quality of life of citizens through better public spaces. These guidelines are currently being distributed in Saltillo.
The student team included Gabrielle Comeau, Maria Pia Navarrete Garcia, Roha Teferra, and Haley Wagoner.
The Croatian Monastery Continues to Heal project is a community restorative garden for youth, the blind, and the elderly with disabilities.
The project, led by students at the University of Washington designed a public garden in Rijeka, Croatia. The students applied the principle of universal design throughout much of the garden to ensure enjoyment by all in an equitable manner.
The team included Nathania Martinez, Issamar Aguilera, Bryana Boileau, James Ditto, Monica Taylor, and Hanyu Wang.
The ASLA 2018 Annual Meeting & EXPO will be held in Philadelphia, October 19-22.
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