Call for entries – Register for LILA 11
January 20th 2026: Landezine calls landscape architects, architects, and students to send their work to the 11th edition of LILA!
Landezine thanks the sponsor of the tenth edition of LILA, Landscape Forms, for the support!
Award categories
1. Built Landscapes architecture projects – regardless of function, context, geography, or scale. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: small and large projects, private and public spaces, urban and rural landscapes; parks, squares, streets, infrastructure, residential parks, private gardens, campuses, corporate and hospitality landscapes, schools, playgrounds, cemeteries, memorials, temporary installations, exhibitions, and related works. Eligible projects are those for which the last phase of construction was completed after 31 December 2020.
2. Landscape and Architecture – Projects that foreground the relationship between landscape and architecture, regardless of typology, use, or size. Eligible projects are those for which the last phase of construction was completed after 31 December 2020.
3. Revisited Landscapes – Landscape projects of any typology, use, or size, presented through historical and recent(-ish) photographs that illustrate how the project has evolved over time. The last phase of construction must have been completed between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 2010.
The Revisited Landscapes category explicitly acknowledges the reality of long-term use. Traces of everyday life, such as wear, appropriation, graffiti, modification, or material ageing, are understood as normal conditions of lived landscapes and will not negatively affect a project’s chances of recognition. The professional jury will evaluate how forward-looking a project was at the time of its completion and how it continues to operate over time. Rather than rewarding perfected imagery, the jury will look beyond conventional signs of ageing and focus on designs that were ahead of their time and remain meaningful, robust, and actively used despite—or precisely through—these visible signs of life.
Editorial Awards
Editors of Landezine will select the LILA Honour Award and the LILA Office Award. There are no applications open for these two awards and member-offices of Landezine will be considered automatically.
Students and young professionals are invited to send their personal portfolios to the LILA Portfolio Award. Read more below.
Deadlines and registration fees for offices
January 20th – Call for entries opens
Early Bird registration deadline – on or before 20 February: €150 per project*
Main registration deadline – on or before 26 March: €200 per project*
Late registration deadline – on or before 7 May: €250 per project*
The deadline for sending the material is only one, regardless of your registration date: 7 May 2025. You may register early to catch the low fee and submit the material no later than 7 May.
*Offices with an active Landezine membership can enjoy a 20% discount on the registration fee. If you have an active membership, check your Trace account for the discount code. If you can’t find your trace access and believe you have an active membership, write to lila@landezine.com.
Registration process
Download detailed step-by-step instructions (pdf, 630 kb).
1. Visit https://landezine-award.com/product/lila-registration-fee-offices/ to register.
2. Select the number of projects you are submitting and pay the corresponding registration fee.
3. After payment is received, you will be sent the order number which is important in the submission process.
Submission material – for each project, you will need the following:
Information:
- Order number (received via email after registering to LILA). Order number is essential as it connects your payment with the material and information provided.
- Project name
- Project type – select ‘Other projects’ if your project doesn’t fit any available description.
- Declare if you wish for the project to also compete in the ‘Landscape and Architecture’ category.
- Year of construction (the year when the last constructed phase was built. Example: if a project was realized in several phases or parts between 2019 and 2025, select ‘2025’.
- Exact location of the project (only write the country for private or confidential location)
- Project Description text – max 5000 characters in total. + Add all credits that you want or need to add in the end (client, architects, etc.)
Images: (only jpg or jpeg format are accepted, min 2000 px by longer side), send via WeTransfer, include order number “order-number-project-name.zip”. Also indicate:
- Hero image
- Gallery of a maximum of 30 images
- Simple site plan
The maximum number of JPGs to be sent is therefore 32.
LILA Portfolio Award For Students and Young Professionals
Students and young professionals from the field of landscape architecture are invited to submit their personal portfolios for the LILA Portfolio Award. The winner can only be an individual, not a group or a brand name. Only people born after May 7, 1990, can participate.
The winning student or young professional will receive a monetary prize of 1000 euros.
Download step-by-step instructions (pdf, 600 kb) for students and young professionals.
What to submit?
The personal portfolio must be a PDF booklet, A3 format (single page, not spreads), max 100MB, max 25 single pages, including the cover page.
Deadlines and fees for students and young professionals
The deadline for registration and submission for the LILA Portfolio Award is only one: 7 May 2026
The registration fee is fixed and will not change: €40
Registration process
Step 1: Register by paying the registration fee: https://landezine-award.com/product/lila-registration-fee-students/ Once payment is successful, you will receive a confirmation email containing your 5-digit order number. Keep this number—it is required for Steps 2 and 3.
Step 2: Submit information about yourself: https://landezine-award.com/submit-portfolio-information/
Step 3: Submit portfolio pdf: https://landezine-award.com/submit-portfolio-pdf/
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