At long last, we would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the WASLA Awards this year. We appreciate your participation during such a busy year and spring quarter!
Congratulations to our National ASLA Student Award winners: Heewon Kim, BLA Merit Award; Reed Lewis, BLA Honor Award; Hoilok Heather Lam, MLA Merit Award; Sarah Lukins, MLA Merit Award; Erin Irby, MLA Honor Award, and Erynne van Zee, MLA Honor Award.
We would also like to thank our juries for the many hours they put in thoughtfully reviewing the work.
BLA Jury:
Carrie Culp, Tori Halligan, Noelle Higgins, Vaughn Rinner
MLA Jury:
Benjamin Barrett, Curtis LaPierre, Vaughn Rinner, JB Seyfried
Foundation Studio Jury:
Katey Bean (HNTB), Ted Benge (Swift Co.),
Steve Cecil (Steven Cecil Design & Planning), and Scott Melbourne (MxM)
Advanced Studio Jury:
Hasti Afkham (LMN), Simba Gu,
Kim Rooney (Kim Rooney Design), and JB Seyfried (GGN)
Technical Course Jury:
Kim Rooney (Kim Rooney Design) and Jesse Shan (Swift Co.)
Capstone Jury:
Billy Fleming (Wilks Family Director, McHarg Center, UPenn)
Shannon Lee (Principal, Mithun)
Mary Pat McGuire (Associate Professor, University of Illinois)
And finally, congratulations to our local WASLA and UWLA award winners!!! We will send along individual jury comments in the next month or so.
Honor
Stanie Zhang & Claire Li – Post-COVID World – Reconnecting People to Nature
Jack Hyland – Fertile Urban Form: Regenerative Housing for Seattle
Merit
Yen-Chia Pan – Mhebu Memorial Design
Erin Irby, Erynne van Zee, Drew Landis, Adam Koehn – Exchanging Futures: Designing for Climate Responsive Energetic, Economic, & Aquatic Exchanges on the Bellingham Waterfront
Bryant Callahan, Cyrus Deloye, Dominique De Gracia – The Commodore Step
Honor
Jessika Gill – Blurring the Lines between Passage & Plaza
Natalie Weiss – Familiarity in Flux
Merit
Meredith Grupe – Amplify: Pioneer Square’s Visual and Performing Arts Hub
Malka Hoffman – ARMILLA: Channeling and Inhabiting Landscapes Beyond the Binary
Erin Wiseman – Dynamism in Flux
Jessika Gill – Aphid Soap Opera: Spring in Puget Sound
Leila Jackson – Unsettling Discovery Park: Reimagining the Periphery as a Site for Social and Ecological Resilience
Honor
Rhys Coffee – Stormwater Steps
Merit
Ginger Plaster & Ava Ross – Lake City Forest Haven
Capstone Awards – Thesis
Honor
Jocine Velasco, “Unsettling Prairies: A Critical Reimagining of Fire Management in Cities”
Ry Yahn, “Claim, Reclaim, Unclaim: Foregrounding Place-Based Solidarities in the Eco-Cultural Revitalization of a Post-Mining Landscape on the Klamath River”
Merit
Alexandra Burgos, “Reframing Farmworker Justice: Decolonizing Land Stewardship”
Jake Minden, “Cutting Out: Queer Assemblages for Alternative Design Futures”
Luyu Zeng, “Building Climate Resilience in Seattle’s Urban Forest with a Community-centric Approach”