Scholarships
Celebrating Scholarship and a More Equitable Future for Landscape Architecture
Landscape Forms is proud to continue its partnership with the Landscape Architecture Foundation to offer annual scholarships for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students: The Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt and the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship.
We deeply believe in the positive impact landscape architects can have on the environment and society’s connection to it, and consider it a fundamental responsibility to support, celebrate and elevate the rising leaders in our industry. Through our annual scholarships, we seek to increase the influence of the next generation of landscape architects by creating a more equitable, inclusive, creative and sustainable future for the profession.
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Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt
Inspiring a Passion for Artfully-Designed Outdoor Spaces
The Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt celebrates the 30-year career of a leader and visionary in landscape architecture. Peter was one of the founding principals of the award-winning firm, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture in Chicago, Illinois and a dedicated member of the Board of Directors for Landscape Forms. He was widely admired for his incredible talent, dedication, generosity, and integrity – and passion for the “art of design.”
This scholarship is open to landscape architecture students in their final two years of full-time undergraduate study in a LAAB- or LAAC-accredited program in the U.S. or Canada and is awarded on the basis of academic accomplishment and creative design ability. Applicants must demonstrate passion, commitment, and competence in creating artfully-designed places for people.
Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship
Because the Future of Landscape Architecture Starts with Diverse Perspectives
Celebrating its inaugural year in 2021, Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship reflects our aim to help create a society where social justice and racial diversity are the norm. We believe the best workplaces embrace individuality where any person can feel a strong sense of belonging—we aspire to that reality for our own workplace, and we are committed to help spread this mindset across the whole of landscape architecture professions. This scholarship was established as a small but meaningful step toward achieving that vision of a just and diverse community in our industry, helping Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students advance in their education and career in landscape architecture. The Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship is open to undergraduate landscape architecture students who identify as BIPOC and are currently enrolled in a LAAB- or LAAC-accredited program in the US or Canada. Candidates must demonstrate financial need, academic aptitude, and commitment to the discipline of landscape architecture.
Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to Our 2024 Scholarship Recipients:
Minnue Uhm, Aisha Malik, and Kareem Harris
Minnue Uhm (left image), recipient of the 17th annual Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Schaudt, FASLA, is a landscape architecture student at Cornell University who has found his passion in the interdisciplinary challenge.
"I have always been interested in architecture, and growing up in my generation, environmental science and climate change are very important topics. So, entering the landscape architecture program at Cornell, I didn’t know exactly what to expect at first, but what I found was a really nice combination of all my interests,” says Uhm. "Right now, I feel like the field is changing, we’re entering an ideas era, and I'm excited to be at the forefront of that. Thinking about the empirical and physical dimensions of landscape design in a way that makes sense economically and socially for communities is so interdisciplinary, so chaotic sometimes, but it’s such a welcome challenge, and it’s made me fall in love with this field.”
We wholeheartedly agree with Minnue on the importance of interdisciplinary thinking in our field, and we are inspired by his embrace of this challenge.
Aisha Malik (middle image), one of two co-recipients of the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship, is a landscape architecture student at the University of Rhode Island (URI) with a creative spirit and determined drive to take on some of the field’s most pressing challenges.
"Since I was young, I’ve been deep into art and drawing every day, and growing up in Alaska, the outdoors has also been a huge part of my lifestyle. Enrolling in the landscape architecture program at URI, I took a chance, not knowing much about it initially, but it was hands down the best decision of my life. Landscape architecture perfectly meets all of my creative needs,” says Malik. "One issue that I would like to dedicate part of my career to is climate change in the Arctic. The landscape architecture community in Alaska is extremely small, kind of isolated, yet so crucial. Beginning with an internship up there this summer, I’m really eager to bring new ideas back home and use my degree to help deal with Alaska’s pressing climate change issues.”
We admire Aisha’s passion and drive, and by focusing that one some of today’s most important challenges, we think she will bring a big positive impact to landscape architecture.
Kareem Harris (right image), also a co-recipient of the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship, is a landscape architecture student at the University of Wisconsin Madison who combines entrepreneurial expertise with a love of landscape to drive positive community change.
"In 2020, I was a high school graduate in the middle of a pandemic, and I started a landscape maintenance company. That same fall, I enrolled as a biomedical engineering student, but I was miserable and knew I needed to do something else. I realized I had fallen in love with landscaping, and I decided I should take that passion to the next level by going to school for landscape architecture. And I’m so grateful I did,” says Harris. "My goal is to connect people, and especially African Americans, to nature. There are a lot of health problems and disparities that my community faces, and I think improving access to nature provides immense, long-lasting benefits. I want to create landscapes where people can thrive — where conversations are sparked, where friendships are created, where people connect with nature and one another on a deeper level.”
We deeply believe in Kareem’s mission to enhance community through connection to nature — a mission that, combined with his entrepreneurial drive, will make him an incredible asset to the field.
Previous Years' Winners
Learn more about Landscape Forms’ scholarships and others available through the Landscape Architecture Foundation.