Congratulations To UW National ASLA And WASLA Student Award Winners!

A jury of WASLA members reviewed four students (2 BLA and 2 MLA) selected by the Department of Landscape Architecture at UW using ASLA’s selection criteria on May 21, 2016.

Congratulations to these exemplary students!

2016 NATIONAL ASLA Student Awards – May 21, 2016

MLA 2016:
Hailey Mackay - HONOR
Will Shrader - HONOR

BLA 2016:
Gina Kim – HONOR
Jacqueline Kim – MERIT 

2016 WASLA Student DESIGN Awards – May 17, 2016

LA 322 - Intro to Planting Design
Adrienne Larson - Fearfulness - MERIT 

LA 301 - Design Foundations Studio
Jean Ni - Cultivating Experience - MERIT

LA 302 - Urban Sites Studio
Sierra Mills Druley, Joshua Gawne, Allison Ong - Frame | Flow - MERIT
Jeni Chan, Jean Ni, Kevin Van Meter - Living Memorial Garden - HONOR 

LA 303 - Revealing Relationships / Ecological Systems Studio
Monica Taylor - Shoreline Synergy - MERIT
Janice Dongeun Lee - Connecting: Times and Scales / Human and River - MERIT
Sierra Mills Druley - Shifting Tides - HONOR 

LA 303 - Meadowbrook / Ecological Systems Studio
Kasia Keeley - Meadowbrook Site Analysis - MERIT
Louie Cocci - Droimnin..."the littlest ridge" - MERIT
Kelly Douglas - Exploring the Margin: Social and Ecological Edges at Meadowbrook Park - HONOR 

LA 303 - Herring’s House Park 3D/4D Models
Andrew Badgett, Nicky Bloom, Allison Ong, Aaron Parker - Blur|Edge|Disorient|Refuge|Matrix|Shift - MERIT

LA 403 - Ballard Missing Link / Cultural Landscape Studio
Marizol Jae Jung Park - Voyage to the Past - MERIT
Gina Esther Kim - The Intertide - MERIT
Eunjee Angie Oh - Merging Corridor - HONOR 

LA 501 - Cultivating the Community Commons / Scan|Design Master Studio
Kelly Douglas - Situating Slope: Investing Place-Based Identity - MERIT
Emily Darling, Shuyi Gao, Melanie Hess - The CO-OP - HONOR

LA 502 - Global Health / Design Activism Studio
Yuan Fang, Shuyi Gao - AQUA·Infrastructure - HONOR 

LA 503 - Jackson Park P-Patch / Community Design Studio
Britton Shepard - Settling Into Place: A Renaissance of the Jackson Park P-Patch - MERIT 

LA 504 - Making the Cut / Landscape Urbanism Studio
Robin Croen, William Estes, Melanie Hess, Wei-Lun Hsiao- Then and Again - MERIT
Robin Croen- Core Sample - MERIT
Kelly Douglas, Kasia Keeley- Report of Field Service - HONOR
William Estes - ABOVE/below - HONOR 

LA 507 - Art + Landscape Studio
Rhys van Bemmel - Kinetic Surge - HONOR 

LA 474/475 Design/Build VA Healing Garden
Hilary Ratliff, Hayden Tauscher, Eunjee Angie Oh, Marizol Park - Inside Out - MERIT 

LA 498/598 - Rome Studio
Chih-Ping Chen - Synapse-Future Neurological Connections along Tevere - MERIT
Evan Boyd - Museo del Tevere - MERIT 

URBDP 600 - China Village Studio
Luo Ying Jing, Ran Ge Si, Liu Yan Hang, Ren Li Xin, Tiffany Wong - The Jade Necklace | Node3: Sluice Gates - MERIT 

LARCH 600 - Independent Studio
Jorge Alarcon - A Garden for a Healthier House, Gardens as a Health Strategy for Developing Communities Iquitos, Peru - MERIT 

LA 700/702 - Civic Defragmentation / Capstone Studio
Jiaxi Guo- Healing Licton Springs – Revealing the Past towards a Resilient Future - MERIT
Christel Game - Mending the Habitat - Endangered Species on Aurora Ave. - MERIT
Zhehao Huang - Move, Stay, Engage - HONOR

LA 701 - Thesis Studio
Hailey Mackay- Enhancing Legacy | Engaging Process: Phytoremediation at Gas Works Park - MERIT
Britton Shepard - Site 1121 - Field Notes - HONOR
Arisa Nakamura - Stories of Chinatown-International District from Multiple Cultural Backgrounds - HONOR 

2016 WASLA Student WRITTEN Awards – May 17, 2016

Monica Taylor - Generalife and Madinat Al-Zahra: Looking at Spanish Islamic Healing Gardens - HONORABLE MENTION

Finis Ray - Rose Colored Light - HONOR

Hailey Mackay - Enhancing Legacy | Engaging Process: Phytoremediation at Gas Works Park - MERIT

LArch 501 Studio - Blue Urbanism: Inviting Urban Play on Seattle’s North Waterfront - MERIT

Sierra Mills Druley - Modernism, Nostalgia, and the Agricultural Vernacular - MERIT

Many thanks go to our jurors for contributing their time and expertise to the process:  Kathryn Christensen, Betsy Severtsen, and Jessi Barnes for the Thesis and Report awards; Maureen Colaizzi, Dean Koonts, Bernie Alonzo, and Daren Crabill for the Design Awards;  and Maureen Colaizzi, Dean Koonts, Duane Dietz, and Lara Rose for the ASLA National Student Awards. 

Congratulations, and keep up the incredible work! 



 

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