IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award 2011

Submission deadline: 10 November 2010

The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), which represents the worldwide profession of landscape architecture, is soliciting nominations for its Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award.

The IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award is the highest honour that the International Federation of Landscape Architects can bestow upon a landscape architect. The Award recognises a living landscape architect whose lifetime achievements and contributions have had a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of society and the environment and on the promotion of the profession of landscape architecture. The award is bestowed annually on an academic, public or private practitioner whose work and achievements are respected internationally.

Candidates may be nominated by IFLA Member Associations, delegates, individual members and allied organizations, as well as independent sources.

The award recipient will be identified through a nomination and jury selection process.

The Award recipient will be notified by the IFLA President and invited to attend the IFLA World Congress, where the winner will be announced, the Award will be presented, and the winner will make a presentation of his/her work at a suitable function in conjunction with the Congress. The 2011 IFLA World Congress will be in Zurich, Switzerland from 27 to 29 June 2011.

IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award was launched 2004 on a quadrennial basis. Its inaugural recipient was Peter Walker (USA) in 2005. In 2009 Prof. Bernard Lassus (France) was granted the Award.

Submission
Nominations for the 2011 IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award must be submitted electronically to the Administrative Headquarters of the International Federation of Landscape Architects by November 10, 2010. Contact:

Christine Bavassa
IFLA Executive and Communication Secretary
admin@iflaonline.org

Refer to the IFLA website (www.iflaonline.org) for the complete Call for Nominations and submission requirements.

About Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1910 – 1996), IFLA President of Honour, served IFLA as founding President from 1948-1954. He was a trained architect, town planner, landscape architect and garden designer, but his prime interest was in landscape and garden design. Jellicoe was a founding member (1929) and then President of the British Institute of Landscape Architects (the ILA - now the LI) and was knighted for services to landscape architecture in 1979. In 1994, he was given the Royal Horticultural Society's highest award, the Victoria Medal of Honour.

Further Information:
Prof. Tong Mahn Ahn
Chair, Nominations Committee
IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award
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Fax: +82 (0) 2 - 873 5113
eMail: ahntm@snu.ac.kr

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