Overview

Many internationally known landscape architecture and architecture firms—including SnØhetta, BIG, Scape, and Weiss/Manfredi—have originated from design-competition wins. The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture, written by award-winning landscape architecture educators Katya Crawford and Kathleen Kambic, is the first book devoted to helping professional and academic design studios comprehensively plan for successful entries. Divided into five sections, the book provides an overview of the history and development of modern design competitions; includes interviews with world-renowned architects and designers, including Julie Bargman, Henri Bava, Elaine Molinar, Michelle Delk, and Kate Orff; offers a pedagogical approach to competition studio as part of a college curriculum; serves as a guide for entering design competitions; showcases award-winning designs from landscape architecture faculty and students and subsequent built projects from landscape architecture practitioners; reflects on future directions of landscape architecture design competitions; and provides resources for finding competitions. A wealth of lively graphics, including site plans, sketches, and color photographs, accompany the text. Crawford and Kambic's history and analysis of the modern landscape architecture design competition shines a spotlight on the critical role these events play for practitioners, educators, and students and highlights how they shape and give identity to the cities in which we live.

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The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture invigorates the value of design competitions positioned in design studios. It delivers new historical insights from key competitions such as Parc de la Villette and offers some personal behind-the-scenes thoughts from a collection of key interviews from landscape architects involved in competitions, including Peter Latz, Ken Smith, and Walter Hood."" - Nadia Amoroso, author of Digital Landscape Architecture Now ""The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture is an incredibly insightful book that uses history, interviews, and examples to examine the important role that design competitions play in the field of landscape architecture."" - Marc L. Miller, professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University

Author Information

Katya Crawford is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning. Kathleen Kambic is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of New Mexico's School of Architecture and Planning.

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