LILA Portfolio Award 2026 for Students and Young Professionals

The final countdown

May 7 is a hard deadline. It will not be possible to register or send material after that date.

About the LILA Portfolio Award

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/

See Previous Winners

2025: Ana Patricia Garrido Chavez

The portfolio of Ana Garrido marks the early contours of a versatile and experimental landscape practice, one animated by a palpable joy in making. Trained as a dancer, Garrido brings movement into the space of landscape architecture not only as metaphor but as method — approaching sites as performative terrains, where bodily presence becomes a mode of spatial inquiry. The design process oscillates between disciplines, allowing choreography to leak into drawing, digital into analogue, reflecting a promising and restless creative force that refuses to settle in a singular approach to landscape.
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2024: Portfolio: Tatiana Nozaki

Tatiana Nozaki’s portfolio showcases several elaborate political statements questioning complex social and environmental situations. Tatiana fearlessly addresses those issues with a visionary approach, committed to finding an appropriate ethical position, as well as spatial response. Her projects confidently tackle visible and invisible forces that take part in the production of space. Precise and poetic visual communication effectively complements project objectives. Diversity in graphics reflects the ability to approach projects with an open mind and readiness for a more nonlinear design process and provocative outcome.
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2023: Portfolio: Ruby Zielinski

Ruby Zielinski is currently finishing her masters in landscape architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She has a bachelor degree (BFA) in Graphic Design from the Memphis College of Art, studied mathematics in Arkansas and also describes herself as a musician, storyteller and explorer. Her background, the diversity of skills and interests perhaps contributed to her visibly colourful approach to problem solving. Her portfolio reflects remarkable understanding of spatial complexities concerning function, heritage, ecology, and community engagement. The editors of Landezine also appreciate the clear and aesthetically sound visual communication and experimental approach.

2022: Portfolio: Marcel Troeger

Marcel Tröger (Germany, 1991) is a young German landscape architect who already has several years of experiences of working in several landscape architecture offices. His work proves remarkable understanding of the changes and challenges happening to environement and consequently also our shifting perspectives. His projects are conscious of trans-scale complexities and spatial conditions, but also poetic and playful. His portfolio reflects a remarkably mature conceptual thinking meeting pure joy of designing.

2022: Special Mention: Farinoosh Hadian Jazy

Farinoosh Hadian Jazy (Iran, 1996) is a Landscape architecture student (postgraduate) in UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture with Bachelors of Architecture. We recognize her ability to communicate graphically, her portfolio is full of interesting drawings that are somehow specific to the Bartlett school, but also unique and beautifully strange, approaching the intersection of illustration and data visualisation.