The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture (Paperback)

Katya Crawford

ISBN 10: 082636781X / ISBN 13: 9780826367815

Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2025

About this Item

Paperback. Many internationally known landscape architecture and architecture firmsincluding SnOhetta, BIG, Scape, and Weiss/Manfredihave 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082636781X
• ISBN 13: 9780826367815
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.