“This book offers a road map to the design competition, a source of avant-garde thinking and making that has broad implications for the future of landscape architecture and the built environment. Showing us how design competitions have generated inspired approaches to reshaping cities, the authors lay the foundations for a hopeful practice of design with the power to transform our contemporary world.”

– Phoebe Lickwar, founding principal of Forge Landscape Architecture

“The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture invigorates the value of design competitions positioned in design studios. It delivers new historical insights from key competitions such as Parc de la Villette and offers some personal behind-the-scenes thoughts from a collection of key interviews from landscape architects involved in competitions, including Peter Latz, Ken Smith, and Walter Hood.”

– Nadia Amoroso, author of Digital Landscape Architecture Now

“The Design Competition in Landscape Architecture is an incredibly insightful book that uses history, interviews, and examples to examine the important role that design competitions play in the field of landscape architecture.”

– Marc L. Miller, professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University