The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture

The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture is the first book devoted to helping professional and academic design studios comprehensively plan for successful competition entries. Divided into five sections, the book provides an overview of the history and development of modern design competitions, includes interviews with world-renowned landscape architects and designers, offers a pedagogical approach to competition studios as part of a college curriculum, showcases award-winning designs from landscape architecture faculty and students (including built projects), and reflects on future directions for landscape architecture design competitions. Crawford and Kambic's writing shines a spotlight on the critical role competitions play in school and practice and highlights how competitions help give shape and identity to the places in which we live.

Katya Crawford is a professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning and is the past president and fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Her research interests focus on design pedagogy, ephemeral landscape installations, landscape literacy, and social and environmental justice. Crawford's work has placed in over twenty local, national, and international juried exhibitions and competitions. Kathleen Kambic is an associate professor in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of New Mexico and is an affiliate with the Water Resources Program, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and the Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests include water, infrastructure, the American West, feminist political ecology, landscape theory, and the role of design competitions in a landscape architecture curriculum. Kambic has won multiple international design competitions on interdisciplinary faculty teams.

Acknowledgments Foreword. Competition Matters Julia Czerniak Introduction. The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture: Pedagogy and Practice Part One. A History of Radical Thoughts: Competitions as Socio-Cultural Generators Part Two. Interviews Julie Bargmann: Tropes and Traps Henri Bava: Code Source Michelle Delk and Elaine Molinar: Perception and Participation Walter Hood: Walk the Walk Reed Kroloff: Discourse and Quality Peter and Tilman Latz: Approach over Picture Kate Orff: Win Hearts and Minds Ken Smith: Analogies Richard Weller: Design Speculation Part Three. Lessons from the Competition Studio: A Pedagogical Approach Part Four. Case Studies Case Study 1: Foxes in the Garden Case Study 2: ARTiculation, Water Walk, and Caminando Entre Estrellas Case Study 3: Parc Heure Case Study 4: DAM CLIMATE Case Study 5: HB:BX and Fill'er Up Case Study 6: Between Spaces and Power Up Case Study 7: HAND + HAND and SmartWeave Case Study 8: Elemental Dreams Case Study 9: Johnson Field (Re)Creation Part Five. Conclusion Index