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Tennessee ASLA Chapter12-04-17 | Feature

Tennessee ASLA Chapter

Seventeen awards were presented at the Tennessee Chapter ASLA Annual Conference in September, including six student awards.

The Tennessee Chapter of ASLA held its Annual State Conference on September 7-8 in Knoxville. Attendees went to conference sessions to earn professional development hours. Michael Blier from Landworks Studio presented the keynote breakfast session on the challenges of integrating active ecological processes into landscape scenarios. A networking event and after-hours party was held at a local wine bar on the first night.

Alisha Eley, Kimley-Horn & Associates, advocacy chair for TNASLA, and Nathan Oliver, Hawkins Partners, won Nashville Emerging Leaders Awards in 2017 out of more than 800 nominations received.

The chapter's professional and student design awards were presented at the conference as well:

• Award of Excellence – General Design
Hodgson Douglas for Centennial Park Master Plan

• Honor Award – General Design
Dalhoff Thomas Design Studio for Bobby Lanier Farm Park

• Honor Award – General Design
Hodgson Douglas for Terra House

• Award of Excellence – Analysis + Planning
Hawkins Partners for Metro Nashville Parks Master Plan

• Honor Award – Analysis + Planning
Barge, Waggoner, Sumner, and Canon, Inc. for 3rd and 4th Street Improvements Plan

• Honor Award – Analysis + Planning
Ragan-Smith Associates for Downtown Murfreesboro Planning Studies

• Honor Award – Analysis + Planning
W.M. Whitaker and Associates for Crabtree Farms Master Plan

• Award of Excellence – Residential Design
Page Duke Landscape Architects for Truxton Residence

• Award of Excellence – Communications
Kimley-Horn for Tennessee River Trail Scenic Byway Branding Package

• Honor Award – Communications
Hawkins Partners for Promoting Green Streets

• Award of Excellence – General Design – Student
Alexa Macri for Light Meadow

• Honor Award – General Design – Student
Natalie McCarthy for Collaboration Lab

• Award of Excellence – Analysis + Planning – Student
Chris Herbstritt, Paul Bamson, Brian Stovall, Andrew Tarsi, Frank Potts, Journey Roth, Kenneth Townsend, Mathew Smith, Megan Plaag, Ryan Smith, Brian Lam and Caley Shoemaker for Visionary by Design

• Honor Award – Analysis + Planning – Student
Ruxin Tao for H(20)ARVEST

• Award of Excellence – Communications – Student
Lindsey Bradley, Sarah Newton, Erica Phannamvong and Kyra Wu for Hydrolit: Southeast Tennessee Water Quality Playbook

• Award of Excellence – Research – Student
Kyra Wu for Hyper-tidal Aggregates

As seen in LASN magazine, December 2017.