Suburbia Transformed 2.0, One Garden at a Time

SUBURBIA TRANSFORMED 2.0, ONE GARDEN AT A TIME:
EXPLORING THE AESTHETICS OF LANDSCAPE EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF SUSTAINABILITY

AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BUILT AND VISIONARY (UNBUILT) RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES sponsored by the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design; co-sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New Jersey Chapter; and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

ENTRY FORMS DUE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012.

THE COMPETITION
The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people.  ST 2.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an exhibition and catalogue. The emphasis is on how such sustainable landscapes can be beautiful, inspiring, perhaps profound; and serve as examples for transforming the suburban residential fabric, one garden at a time.
Significantly, this year’s version invites the submission of visionary (unbuilt) work, along with built projects, thus opening up the competition to students, as well as professionals.

ELIGIBILITY
Open to all, including landscape architects, landscape designers, architects, individuals, teams or firms…and students of design whose work will be judged in a separate category.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Submissions must be for two-acre or less residentially-zoned single-family properties. A submission with a newly built house is allowed as long as the lot was part of a pre-existing subdivision or town property.  Submission requirements are outlined in detail on the Call for Entries, available for download at http://www.jamesrosecenter.org

• Cornelia Oberlander OC, FASLA, FCSLA, LMBCSLA, Landscape Architect
• Meg Calkins, LEED AP, ASLA, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Ball State University
• Matthew Urbanski, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc., Landscape Architects, P.C.
• Joseph S. R. Volpe, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst