Calling all emerging professionals in landscape architecture! Showcase your creativity, innovation, and design excellence in the ASLA Emerging Professionals Design Competition. This exciting opportunity invites early-career landscape architecture professionals and students to tackle real-world challenges, gain national recognition, and elevate your portfolio.

Submit your boldest ideas and be part of shaping the future of the profession.

The ASLA Associate Advisory Committee, dedicated to serving and nationally representing emerging professionals of the ASLA, is launching this first-of-its-kind design competition for landscape architecture emerging professionals, offering a platform for early-career designers to engage with timely challenges in open space design, climate, and social justice. Mirroring the theme of the 2025 ASLA Conference, the inaugural Emerging Professionals Design Competition invites emerging professional ASLA members to reimagine a new design for Harmony Circle in New Orleans, Louisiana with the theme “Beyond Boundaries.”

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