Harvard University Graduate School of Design students, faculty, and alumni are among those to receive 2020 BSLA Design Awards from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects. The awards honor projects that show a “demonstration of excellence and reflect the careful stewardship, wise planning, and artful design of our cultural and natural environment.” In order to be considered for the award, projects, students, or landscape architects had to be located in Massachusetts or Maine.
The GSD student awardees are:
Xue Bai (MLA ’23) for “From Trash to Fish” with a Student Merit Award
Anson Ting Fung Wong (MLA ’19) for “Stone Wall Trees 2040—Hong Kong” with a Student Merit Award
Estello-Cisdre Raganit (MLA ’19) for “Returning to the River: Water as Public Space—San Agustin Amatengo, Oaxaca, Mexico” with a Student Merit Award
Tam Banh (MArch, MLA ’18) for “Water Assemblage—Mekong Delta, Vietnam” with a Student Honor Award
Amanda Ton (MLA ’19), Wei-Hsiang Chao (MAUD ’20), and Xin Qian (MAUD ’19) for “Mobility is Equality—Los Angeles, California” with a Student Honor Award
Tina Yun Ting Tsai (MLA ’20) for “Right to Remain—Willis Wharf, Virginia” with a Student Excellence Award
GSD faculty and alumni were among the professionals awarded by the BSLA. GSD affiliated winners include:
- Agency Landscape + Planning, led by Gina Ford (MLA ’03) and Brie Hensold (MUP ’07)
- Coyle and Caron, co-founded by Sally Coyle (MLA ’95)
- Crowley Cottrell, co-founded by Naomi Cottrell (MLA ’02)
- Halvorson, led by Cynthia Smith (MLA ’84)
- Landworks Studio, founded by Michael Blier (MLA ’94)
- Merritt Chase, founded by Nina Chase (MLA ’12) and Chris Merritt (MLA ’17)
- Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design, founded by GSD alum and lecturer Matthew Cunningham (MLA II ’06)
- Reed+Hilderbrand, co-founded by Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Gary Hilderbrand (MLA ’85)
- Sasaki Associates, led by James N. Miner (MUP ’01) and other GSD affiliates
- Stimson Studio, co-founded by Stephen Stimson (MLA ’87)
Browse the full list of 2020 BSLA Award recipients.