Landscape Architects Announce 2008 Awards

The Ketchum Residence received the 2008 ASLA Residential Design Award of Excellence. Photo: Marion Brenner Photography

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the recipients of its 2008 Professional Awards [1]. The jury considered over 500 entries and selected 29 projects to receive awards. The awards will be presented on October 6 at the ASLA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia at a ceremony sponsored by Landscape Forms.

“These awards represent the pinnacle of design achievement by the world’s leading landscape architects,” said ASLA’s President, Perry Howard, FASLA. 

Categories for the awards include Residential Design, General Design, Analysis and Planning and Communication. A project known as the Ketchum Residence, located in Ketchum, Idaho, and designed by the San Francisco-based Lutsko Associates, took top honors this year in the Residential Design Category.

View the Award Recipients [1]
 
View the Professional Awards Jury [2]
 

---

About ASLA

Founded in 1899, ASLA is the national professional association for landscape architects, representing more than 18,200 members in 48 professional chapters and 68 student chapters. The Society's mission is to lead, to educate, and to participate in the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environments. Members of the Society use their “ASLA” suffix after their names to denote membership and their commitment to the highest ethical standards of the profession. Learn more about landscape architecture online at www.asla.org [3].

---