Jury
2026 WLA Awards Jury
The juries for this year were selected from over 30 applicants from various firms and universities worldwide. We always look to have a diverse jury with a range of experience and career progression to provide a wide range of views and backgrounds.
Professional Awards Jury
Niels de Bruin
Senior Landscape Architect and Head of Landscape Architecture at Kragh & Berglund
Kate Larsen
Director at Snøhetta
Stephanie Lau | 劉婕妤 PLA (US-CA), ASLA
Senior Project Manager at EADG
Terence Lee
Senior Landscape Architect Associate at DIALOG
Yuan Songting
Founder, Chairman, and the principal designer at DDON
Chris Tidwell
Director at Arcadia Landscape Architecture
Cindy Zerger
Urban Design Practice Lead at Toole Design
Special Juror – Charles A. Birnbaum
President + CEO, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (Bottom Far Right)
Student Awards Jury
Yadan Luo
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture Department, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Director, Future Cities Initiative, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Creative Director, YH LAB
Dr Anastasia Nikologianni
Research Fellow at Birmingham City University. Director of the Young Landscape Architects and Emerging Professionals IFLA World
Dr. Maj Plemenitas
Founder of Linkscale and Amphibious Lab. Academic appointments at RMIT LA and UCL Bartlett include Associate Professorship and co-Directorship of the MA/MLA Landscape Architecture programs (UCL).
Professor Stefan Tischer
Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sassari in Sardinia
Aga Khan Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Design GSD at Harvard University (2023-2024), and
Landscape Architect