Design Expo Raleigh wants to recognize the best of Landscape Architecture happening here in the Triangle. If you are a Landscape Architect and have a wonderful project you want to show off, please submit it to us for review. We will evaluate projects from five categories at professional and student levels. If our panel of judges likes what they see along with the information you provide, you will receive a Letter of Offer to Exhibit your project in Exhibition '06. 

Download the Landscape Architecture Entry Form and attach at least four (4) 8.5 x 11 pages illustrating the project from different views. ”Before” photos are highly recommended to illustrate the impact your project made on the existing site. More than one image can be on each 8.5 x 11 page or you can add more pages and images, if necessary. Give us enough information to make an effective decision.

Categories:

• Corporate Project (built)
• Residential/Private Project (built)
• Public Space Project (built)
• Conceptual Project (unbuilt)
• Small Space and Budget (under 2,000 square feet and under $5,000 spent) (built)

Submission Requirements:

• You live, go to school, or work within the Research Triangle Region (i.e., the greater Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area)
• You are least 18 years of age
• You are the original creator of the design
• You have not copied anyone else's work
• A signed Photography Rights Form must be included in the submission entry
• If the design has been created for a second party, you have the rights to show the design to the public
• If accepted, two to four 20 x 15 boards with images and project name and location will be required for display at the Exhibition. Images are to be dry mounted on 3/16 black gator board. Images should include, plan and photographs of actual project.
• Entrants invited to exhibit will also be required to include a B/W photo of the designer(s), images of the project in JPEG form, and a brief written statement about the project, as well as the designer(s). This information will be used beside the display. Actual project submission details will be in the Letter of Offer to Exhibit.

Fees:

Application review fees:
$15/entry for Student Submission
 $25/entry for Professional Submission

Participation fee (due after project has been accepted with other paperwork and images):
$35/entry for Student Submission        
$75/entry for Professional Submission

Dates:

Submissions for 2006 now closed. We're looking forward to a fantastic exhibit. Check the calendar of events to plan your participation.
 

Download the Landscape Architecture Entry Form

Judges:

Edward Davis is a Registered Landscape Architect who currently practices in Charlotte, North Carolina. Along with his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (cum laude) from the University of Georgia, he also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting (cum laude) from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. Edward works on commercial, institutional and private residential landscape design and planning projects. He also gives lectures to different groups on subjects such as: Artist's Gardens, European Renaissance Gardens, Garden Ornamentation, Designing Cottage Gardens for the South, and Low Maintenance/Eco-Friendly Garden Design.
Will Hooker received his BLA from SUNY at Syracuse in 1967 and MLA from NC State in 1979. He is a registered Landscape Architect in NC, having practiced in several firms locally, as well as with EDAW in San Francisco in the early '70s. He currently runs the one-person office, Will Hooker, LA. He has been with the NC State Department of Horticultural Science since 1979 and currently teaches introductory and advanced small scale landscape design studios, sustainable living methodology courses, “Introduction to Permaculture”, and is well known for the ephemeral bamboo sculptures that he builds each year with his students.
Juanita Shearer-Swink, biography coming soon.