Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition
Open to any student or team of students currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate LA Degree Program
The objective of The Wayne Grace Memorial Student Design Competition is "to gather outstanding examples of landscape architectural work which clearly demonstrate in words and images that can be easily understood by the public, regulators, landscape architects and other design professionals how the practice of landscape architecture and licensing affects the quality of life."
Few people who regularly use the facilities designed by landscape architects realize how the quality of their lives is improved by the licensed professional's work. To improve the understanding of these issues and to demonstrate the importance of landscape architecture and licensure, the Foundation sponsors this annual design competition.
Resources
A major objective of the competition is to help students become more aware of how the practice of landscape architecture affects the public and how the L.A.R.E. protects the public by testing for the knowledge and skills required to perform such projects. Recommended resources for understanding the content and scope of the L.A.R.E. are The Road to Licensure and Beyond and the CLARB web site (www.clarb.org). Your local registration board for landscape architects or a local professional group may also be able to answer questions about licensure and landscape architecture. Winning entries are available for review online in the "Archives" section of the CLARB web site. Back issues of CLARB's newsletter Environment and Design contain insight from the judges about award-winning projects.
Submissions may pertain to any project which affects the natural and built environment and has a demonstrated, positive impact on the quality of life of the public.
* Drawings - Submissions must contain a rendered site plan and other drawings as required to demonstrate the existing conditions and the design of the proposed project. Submissions must include no more than four, 20" x 30" (or metric equivalent) drawings. Drawings should be mounted on illustration or foam core boards. Entries that exceed the size requirement will not be considered for an award.
* Essay - Submissions must include an essay communicating to the public how the project reflects considerations for the natural environment, how the project will influence the quality of life of the users and how the knowledge and skills required to produce the project relate to those tested on the Landscape Architect Registration Examination (L.A.R.E.). Essays must be typed, double spaced and no more than 1,000 words in length. Please include a printed copy of the essay as well as an electronic copy on a floppy disk.
* To ensure fairness in the judging process, the entrant's name, location and school name must not appear on the drawings or essay. Instead, each document must be identified with the entrant's social security/insurance number. Each entry must be accompanied by a sealed envelope labeled with the entrant's social security/insurance number containing a piece of paper listing the entrant's name(s), school, title of project, mailing address, phone number, email address, and social security/insurance number.
$6,000 will be distributed among 1, 2, or 3 winners.