Nadia Amoroso awarded 2018 CELA Award for Outstanding Communications
We are pleased to announce that Nadia Amoroso, Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, has received the 2018 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Award for Outstanding Communications. This award is given to an individual whose body of work “acknowledges truly outstanding, innovative and noteworthy work through communication. The intent is to honor an individual’s or an organization’s innovative communication work that has achieved high impact in and beyond landscape architecture and demonstrated high quality benefit to landscape architecture and/or the public at large. The award may include but will not be limited to bodies of knowledge communicated through books, journals, data-bases, web-based communication products, film series, white papers, reports etc."
Nadia’s publications regarding visual representation in landscape architecture is recognized as a significant contribution in landscape architectural education globally. ‘Representing Landscapes’ is a trilogy of books and online media which covers the important topic of visual communication landscape architecture education. Each book is a careful curation of students’ works from landscape architecture programs across the globe.
"Nadia has been prolific in her ‘Representing Landscapes’ design visualization book series. Many of us know that Nadia's work has achieved high impact in and beyond landscape architecture and demonstrates a high quality benefit to landscape architecture education and practice. Nadia books have been recognized as a significant contribution to landscape architectural education globally. The books are consistently 'best sellers' at CELA, LaBash and ASLA conferences. This is an important one for our School and College affording internationally significant profile for us all," says Prof. Sean Kelly, chair of SEDRD.
Above: Nadia Amoroso receiving CELA award from Mark Boyer, CELA President
The theme for this year’s CELA 2018 Conference was “Transforming the Discussion”. It was held at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia from March 21- 24. CELA's President, Mark Boyer, presented Nadia Amoroso the Award.