Research Category
NOTE: An official entrant in the Professional Awards Research category is not required to be a landscape architecture professional.
Recognizes: research that identifies and investigates challenges posed in landscape architecture, providing results that advance the body of knowledge for the profession.
Typical entries include: investigations into methods, techniques, or materials related to landscape architecture practice; studies of relationships of landscape architecture to law, education, public health and safety, or public policy; and more.
Criteria: The jury will consider how the research is framed; the context and resources of the study; the methods of inquiry; the results of investigation; and the lesson value of the research conclusions to the field at large.
Recognition: The jury may select any number of Honor and Merit Awards in this category or one Award for Excellence in this program.