2024 WLA Student Awards Winners announced

World Landscape Architecture received over 125 entries in the 2024 WLA Student Awards from universities worldwide in four categories. The winners highlight the new and innovative ideas by landscape architecture students worldwide that address a wide array of environmental, social, and urban challenges. The winners were judged by an world-class jury to review and acknowledge the best student work in design, analysis and planning. This year’s jury includes the following jurors:

Elisa C. Cattaneo
High Qualified Professor of Theory of Contemporary Architectural Design at Politecnico di Milano,

Craig Douglas
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Department at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Shen Jie
Associate Professor, doctoral supervisor and Deputy Director of Landscape Architecture Department at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Alessandro Martinelli
Education and Academic Activities Standing Committee Chair, IFLA – International Federation of Landscape Architects
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Chinese Culture University, Taipei

Winners

The winners of the 2024 WLA Student Awards are as follows:

Concept – Analysis & Planning

Award of Excellence

Climate-Adapted Conservation Of Wildlife Migration 
Students: Jiaojiao Zhu, Siyi Liang,  Jirong Guang, Liangyi Huang – Huazhong Agricultural University; Advisor:  Xin Xia – Huazhong Agricultural University

Honour Awards

Counter-mapping the U.S.-Mexico Border Landscape 
Student:  Qizhi Gao – University of Toronto;
Advisor: Liat Margolis – University of Toronto;

Saving the White Aral Sea 
Students: Tao Huang, Yishan Chen, Xinyi Chen, Xin Lin – Huazhong Agricultural University;
Advisor: Jizhong Shao, Huazhong Agricultural University;

Merit Awards

Harmony over the Cloud Terraces
Students: Yanjun Wan, Jishou University; Yuhong Wang – Chongqing University;
Advisors: ZhenXing Wang – The University of Melbourne;

Field Perception, Land Shaped by Sensors 
Students: Anette del Pilar Vega Tamayo, Abhinand Krishnakumar Menon, Arya Arun, Mahdieh Ahmadlou, Hao Yueru – Politecnico di MIlano;
Advisors: Francesco Garofalo, Chiara Geroldi, Ludovica Barcucci, Camila Katich, Konstantinos Venis – Politecnico di MIlano;

Concept – Large Design

Award of Excellence

Insurgent Geology 
Student: Melanie Louterbach – Harvard Graduate School of Design;
Advisor: Roselea Monacella, Harvard Graduate School of Design;

Honour Awards

The Spring of Oasis 
Students: Shan He, Siyi Wu, Yu Zhang – Harvard Graduate School of Design;

Just follow the Smell 
Student: Zhiming Zhang – Harvard Graduate School of Design;

Merit Awards

Bridging the Borders, Treasures of Wounds 
Students: Dao Zhou – Kede College of Capital Normal University;
Advisor: Jiawei Liang – Kede College of Capital Normal University;

Shalescapes of West Lothian 
Student:  Alice Carrington-Windo – The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London; Advisors:  Tom Budd, Hannah Corlett and Lyn Poon;

Concept – Small Design

The jury chose not to recommend any awards for this category.

Concept – Graduate Design

Award of Excellence

The Newt Normal 
Student: Christopher Lucas Dobbin –  Harvard Graduate School of Design;
Advisors: Chris Reed – Harvard Graduate School of Design; Nina-Marie Lister – Toronto Metropolitan University;

Honour Awards

Landscape from clearing: The new construction of a coastline for San Miguel
Student: Jose Fabian – Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú;
Advisors:  Luis Rodríguez Rivero, Gustavo Díaz, Betty Chávez, Silvana Corro.

Tortoise and Tarantula — Tales from the Edge
Students: Anne Tong, Junia Yang – Harvard University Graduate School of Design;
Advisors: Nina-Marie Lister, Chris Reed;

Merit Awards

The Costly Truth About Lawns 
Student:  Valeriia Tolkacheva – Florida International University (FIU);
Advisor: Gianno Feoli;

The Room Under
Student: Han-Tse Lee – University College London;
Advisor: Cannon Ivers, Alexandru Malaescu – University College London;

We thank all the students who entered the 2024 WLA Student Awards and we look forward to publishing the winners and shortlisted entries over the coming months.