We are thrilled to announce that Cornell Landscape Architecture has been named a finalist for the Ribas Piera International University Prize 2025, part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial. The award ceremony will be held on November 21 at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona.
This collection of student work builds on the Cornell University Department of Landscape Architecture's long-standing commitment to buildable design and the situated, material world.
Students approach design as an iterative, relational practice grounded in technical acuity, ecological processes, social complexity and material experimentation. Recent projects confront climate uncertainty, land degradation and uneven access to public space through layered strategies that integrate maintenance, succession, infrastructural adaptation and speculative prototyping.
Congratulations to the students and instructors whose outstanding work earned this remarkable recognition!
Students
Kate Chesebrough (MLA 24), Sebastijan Jemec (MLA 26), Xueting Jin (MLA 25), Huanran Li (MLA 23), Dan Meyer (MLA 23), Matthew Sprague (MLA 26), and Andrew Zhang (visiting student).
Instructors
Jennifer Birkeland, Maria Goula, Hannah Hopewell, Jamie Vanucchi, and Anne Weber.
