09.08.10 - Landscape Infrastructures receives 2010 ASLA Professional Award
Landscape Infrastructures: Emerging Practices, Paradigms, and Technologies Reshaping the Contemporary Urban Landscape, a symposium and exhibition held at Daniels in October 2008, has received a 2010 Professional Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
Landscape Infrastructures received an Honor Award in the Communications category, which recognizes achievements in communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history, or theory, and the lesson value to an intended audience.
To view the project, visit www.asla.org/2010awards/623.html
The winners of the 2010 Professional Awards represent the best in landscape architecture around the world in the categories of general design, residential design, analysis and planning, research and communication. The jury considered 618 entries – the largest number in ASLA history – from 20 countries around the world, selecting 49 projects for distinction.
Sponsored by the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the DVD collects the proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in 2008.
According to the 2010 ASLA jury, "Usually a conference is there and people go home and forget about it. This is something that captures that knowledge and spreads the word to the profession. Communicating anything of value from a symposium is almost impossible and this does it really well. An important resource and example of how to capture and distribute information from industry events.”
The Landscape Infrastructures DVD was edited by Pierre Bélanger, Associate Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and designed by OPSYS in collaboration with Master2DVD. Support for the symposium proceedings was made possible with generous support from the University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, the Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation, the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects, the Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and National Research Council Canada.
The DVD disc-set is available online through the University of Toronto Bookstore and the Harvard University COOP.