Three recent graduates from the Daniels Faculty's Master of Landscape Architecture program have received Honor Awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for their thesis projects. Rui Felix, Logan Littlefield, and Robert McIntosh were among 23 student award recipients, selected from more than 327 entries representing 84 schools around the world.

The winners will receive their awards at the ASLA Annual Meeting and EXPO in Chicago on Monday, November 9 at McCormick Place – Lakeside Center, Arie Crown Theater.

The October issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) features the winning projects and is available online for free viewing.

Image by Rui Felix

Rui Felix received an Honor Award in the General Design Category for his project Borderless Landscapes of Control. His faculty advisor was associate professor Alissa North.

Felix’s project looked at the border zones, where nature and wildlife intersect and conflict with the infrastructure of Toronto Pearson International Airport. He developed “border device strategies” that incorporate “a better understanding of the social and behavioural patterns of nearby wildlife, which in turn informs better vegetation management that affects where wildlife populations live.”

Image by Logan Littlefield

Logan Littlefield’s project Confronting the Present: Towards a Civic Realm on Beirut’s Urban Fringe, received an Honour Award in the Analysis and Planning Category. Associate Professor Georges Farhat was his thesis advisor.

Littlefield’s project “responds to the problematic exclusionary and capitalist nature of post-war reconstruction in Beirut and the implications of such development on the public realm.”

Image by Robert McIntosh

Robert McIntosh also received and Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning Category for his project After Steel — Toward an Industrial Evolution. Associate Professor Alissa North also his advisor.

Macintosh explored plans for the former Stelco site, a 865-acre site on Hamilton Harbor, after the collapse of the steel industry in Hamilton, Ontario. “With the end of steel production comes the opportunity to rethink how we address culturally charged brownfield sites,” wrote McIntosh in his project statement. “This project rejects typical approaches to treating similar sites, and instead seeks to commence a deconstruction of the site and a localization of material flows.”

For more information on the ASLA student award winners: visit the American Society of Landscape Architects website.