The 2018 Landscape
Institute Awards will be the first open to members of other international
landscape organisations
This year, two new
categories have been added. One is the first to be open to members of other
landscape organisations internationally. The other will showcase the industry’s
most innovative and beautiful horticulture projects.
In addition, LI is
simplifying the awards submissions process. In line with its ‘digital first’
strategy, LI has moved much of the process online. It believes that this will
make entering the Awards easier, particularly for smaller practices.
The new Awards website
will go live on Monday 4 June. The registration and submissions windows will
open simultaneously, and run until Tuesday 31 July.
New Landscape
Institute Awards categories for 2018:
Dame Sylvia Crowe Award for Outstanding International
Contribution to People, Place and Nature
Dame Sylvia Crowe
(1901-1997) was one the landscape profession’s foremost leaders. Throughout a
distinguished career, she handled landscapes of hugely diverse scales –
from small garden details to hundreds of acres of new towns, forestry and
reservoir margins.
The Dame Sylvia Crowe
Award is our first to be open to members of international landscape
organisations. It seeks to:
- reward excellence and
leadership in the worldwide field of landscape and place.
- recognise the global reach of
our profession.
- celebrate major achievements
that benefit people, place and nature through landscape
led-approaches.
Dame Sylvia Crowe was
president of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape
Institute) between 1957 and 1959. She was active in promoting the profession
internationally through a number of landscape organisations.
Planting design, horticulture and strategic ecology
This category
showcases established planting schemes and horticultural projects that
contribute to the art and science of landscape architecture. This may include a
range of sites, either standalone or part of a larger project.
Successful entries
will be:
- innovative and appropriate to
the setting.
- creative, functional and
aesthetically pleasing.
Schemes should
demonstrate environmental, ecological and/or educational responsibility.
The full list of open
LI Awards categories in 2018:
- Adding Value Through Landscape
- Communications and Presentation
- Design for a Small-Scale
Development
- Design for a Medium-Scale
Development
- Design for a Large-Scale
Development
- Design for a Temporary
Landscape
- Heritage and Conservation
- Science, Management and
Stewardship
- Landscape Policy and Research
- Local Landscape Planning
- Strategic Landscape Planning
- Urban Design and Masterplanning
- Planting Design, Horticulture
and Strategic Ecology
- Dame Sylvia Crowe Award for
Outstanding International Contribution to People, Place and Nature
- Client of the Year Award
- Volunteer of the Year Award
- New Landscape Professional of
the Year Award
