2025 International Bay Area Landscape Architecture Student Competition

2025 International Bay Area Landscape Architecture Student Competition

Climate change, ecological crises, social differentiation, and health challenges are reshaping the landscape of human existence. Landscape architecture, as a bridge coordinating natural systems and human spaces, urgently needs to reconstruct the underlying logic of future living environments with resilience thinking. The theme of the 2025 International Bay Area Landscape Architecture Student Competition is: Resilience · Future · The Transformative Power of Landscape Architecture (Landscape Architecture: Resilience & Future).Calling on global landscape architecture students to explore the resilience, restorative capacity, and regenerative power of landscapes as dynamic living systems through cross-scale and interdisciplinary innovative perspectives, and to propose pioneering solutions to address uncertain risks.

Organizations

Host Organization :

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Chinese Society of Landscape Architecture

Asian Society of Landscape Design (Japan)

Fukuoka Asian Urban Research Institute (Japan)

Shenzhen Landscape Architecture Society

Basic Requirements

Select a real site anywhere in the world (background information must be provided), and explain the site’s position within the regional ecological network, social structure, and climate system. Based on field research/scientific data/historical analysis, propose a design rationale and envision the future forms of urban and landscape architecture, emphasizing multidimensional resilience.

Encourage prioritizing cases from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to reflect regional practices.

Schedule

    • Registration Deadline : July 5, 2025  
    • Proposal Submission : September 15, 2025  
    • Results Announcement : September 30, 2025

Award Categories

    • First Prize (1 group): 2,000 RMB  
    • Second Prize (2 groups): 1,000 RMB  
    • Third Prize (3 groups): 500 RMB  
    • Several Excellence Awards

Submission Requirements

The submitted materials are electronic files, including the registration form, registration summary sheet, and competition entries.

    • Registration Form: Includes information such as the title of the work, competition category, author’s name, supervising teacher, and school name, as shown in Appendix 1. The form must be submitted in WORD format, with a total file size not exceeding 1MB. The file should be named as “FirstAuthorName+SchoolName.doc”, for example, FirstAuthorName+SchoolName.doc.
    • Registration Summary Sheet: Includes information such as the title of the work, competition category, author’s name, instructor, and school name, as detailed in Appendix 2. The format must be uniformly in EXCEL. The file should be named as “FirstAuthorName+SchoolName.xlsx”, for example, FirstAuthorName+SchoolName.xlsx.
    • Competition Entries: The entire content of the entry must be arranged on a single sheet, including necessary design drawings and explanatory text. Image files should be in JPG format, with a layout size of 120 cm width × 180 cm height at 100% print scale (portrait orientation). Scanning and layout of the drawings and text should be done at 300 pixels/inch (winning entries may be required to provide original high-resolution images for publication purposes). However, the final submission can be appropriately compressed, with a total file size not exceeding 20 MB (otherwise it will be invalid).  No image file shall contain any information reflecting the author, supervisor, or school. Violators will be disqualified. The file should be named as “Primary Author + Work Title.jpg”, for example: Primary Author + Work Title.jpg.
    • Member Requirements: Each group shall consist of no more than 5 students, with no more than 2 tutors.

    • Submission Method: All attachments should be submitted to the conference email address before the deadline.  

Note : The design description and annotations in the design work must be in English.

How to apply

Asian Habitat Society

11/F, COFCO Tower, 262 Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Tel: 00852-2559 9438 / Fax: 00852-2559 9841

email:  liukk@earthasia.com.hk

Contact: Ms. Joanna Liu