UW//LA Awards is a juried competition run by the UW Department of Landscape Architecture. Students submit studio or thesis projects, which are reviewed by a jury of academic and professional landscape architects for Honor and Merit awards.
2021 UW//LA Awards
Foundation Studios
Honor Awards
Seyyada Burney – Material Signatures
Seyyada Burney, Felipe Perez, Zachary McBride, and Jesse Sleamaker – South Delridge Resiliency Coalition
Stephanie Roh – Circular Succession
Merit Award
Ava Ross – Cutting Time
Advanced Studios
Honor
Yen-Hao/Robby Lai, Colin MacDonald, Allie Rowe – Gathering Ground
Yen-Hao/Robby Lai – Forefront
Merit
Emilio Craddock, Emma Petersen – Framing Restoration: Vision for the Heron Meadow and Vashon Nature Center
Zoe Kasperzyk – A Living Pier: Reclaiming Connections to the Salish Sea through Local Indigenous Knowledge
Reed Lewis – The Chasm
Capstone Projects
Honor
Shanshan Shang – The Living Harmony Mengting Ye – Lifeline in Kampong: Adaptable Emergency Hub Networks for Flood Resilience
Merit
Yen-Hao/Robby Lai – Biomimicry: making the forgotten space alive
Yuqing Zhang, Zian Zheng – Bridging the blue and green
Thesis
Honor
Bennet Walker Song – First, Let us Look Together . through forests, trees, wood, and building
Merit
Olivia Lott – Give Me A Clean Death: Rethinking Our Modern Death-Care System
Niccolò Piacentini – Liberating Rivers
Thank you to everyone who submitted their work and congrats to all the winners!
Thesis Jury:
- Amelia Jensen – Associate, Mithun
- Brice Maryman – Principal, MIG
- Andrew Prindle – Designer, Fletcher Studio
- Farzana Rahman – Designer, GGLO
- Vinita Sidhu – Principal, SiteWorkshop
Studio Project Jury:
- Windy Gay – Designer, GGN
- Jescelle Major – Change Management Specialist, Gensler + Well Outside
- Lara Rose – Principal, Walker Macy
- Jesse Shan – Site Designer, Swift Company
- Roma Shah – Architect, Olson Kundig