The results are in.
LAND8, in partnership with the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), is proud to announce the winners of the 8th Annual Social Media Awards in Landscape Architecture—recognizing the individuals and firms using social media to expand the reach and impact of the profession.
From tackling climate challenges and elevating social justice conversations to sharing practical knowledge and experimenting with new forms of storytelling, this year’s external jury chose winners who exemplified social media with purpose—not just to showcase work, but to shape how landscape architecture is understood.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Land8 Social Media Awards
Allied Partners
The Landscape Architecture Bash (LABash): Instagram | Website | LinkedIn
An annual landscape architecture conference organized by students for students, the LABash 2026 planning team explored the theme of “cross-pollination” as a lens for innovation in landscape architecture. Their Instagram feed’s vibrant colors and bold graphics intentionally deviated from the discipline’s conventional grayscale formula, while their playful digital content integrated personality and a community-centric vibe into their outreach. Through LinkedIn and website posts, their interviews with other universities promoted an activist ethos that extended across regional boundaries.
LandSpace Architecture: Instagram | Website | YouTube
As an allied education and media platform, LandSpace supports the profession by promoting landscape architecture through open, high-quality visual education on Instagram and YouTube. They translate professional workflows— design, mapping, GIS analysis, climate-resilient design, and visualization—into practical, short-form tutorials for students, young practices, and universities worldwide. LandSpace’s content highlights real projects, design methods, and public communication of flood risk and climate adaptation, strengthening global engagement and visibility for contemporary landscape architecture.
Urbideias: Instagram | Website | TikTok
A “studio and laboratory of urban architects,” based in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, Urbideias offers innovative technical solutions and visual interpretations of urbanism. Their Instagram feed reflects their philosophy that, in addition to its utilitarian function, landscape architecture can awaken emotions, stimulate the senses, and enrich people’s lives. Their goal is to “democratize content to many people, at the same time, [at] different locations.”
Architecture Center Houston: Instagram | Website
By producing short-form video and social media reels for exhibitions such as Verdant Laboratory, the Architecture Center of Houston translates landscape architecture into visually engaging, accessible storytelling rooted in the city’s unique ecological identity. Their approach expands public awareness, encourages exhibition visits, and demonstrates how digital platforms can make landscape architecture locally relevant and widely impactful.
Individual Landscape Architects
Alt-Landscapes: Instagram | Website
Based in Miami, Florida, Alt-Landscapes uses social media as a living archive of landscape thinking. Through short-form videos, narratives, and visual studies, the platform shares how gardens are imagined, designed, and experienced over time. Its content blends education, process, plants, culture, and personal reflection to make landscape architecture more accessible, emotional, and relevant, especially for younger and Latin American audiences, bridging technical knowledge with poetic storytelling and expanding visibility of the profession.
Pracownia Architektury Krajobrazu: Instagram | Website |
The brainchild of Poland-based expert Magdalena Markiewicz, this small firm’s digital feeds share expert content on landscape architecture, garden design, and naturalistic planting. Markiewicz documents her design process, visualizations, and projects, and books on perennial border design.
TOPOPHYLA: Instagram | Website
Led by Nahal Sohbati, TOPOPHYLA’s Instagram feed features glimpses of Sohbati’s daily process as a landscape designer, artist, thinker, and curious individual, including the day-to-day work, momentum, pauses, missteps, and small wins. Sohbati describes the feed as “a space for thinking out loud, recalibrating when things don’t work, and sharing those moments in the hope that they resonate with others. More than polished outcomes, it’s about persistence, shared learning, and building community around the honest, messy reality of creative practice. No formulas, no filters, just the work as it unfolds…”
Landscape Architecture Firms
Coastal Vista Design: Instagram | Website | Facebook | LinkedIn
Using social media to educate and advocate for landscape architecture, much of this Florida-based firm’s Instagram feed focuses on coastal adaptation and resilience. By sharing project narratives, construction insights, and visual comparisons, Coastal Vista Design highlights design responses to flooding, storm surge, and changing coastal conditions, making solutions to complex environmental challenges accessible while elevating the value of landscape architecture in coastal communities and beyond.
Hollander Design Landscape Architects: Instagram | Website | Facebook | LinkedIn
With over 140,000 Instagram followers, Hollander Design Landscape Architects is among the most widely followed landscape architecture firm accounts on Instagram. Its reach extends beyond the profession to leaders in architecture, interiors, real estate, and design media. Their feed balances visual inspiration with clear design thinking, elevating public understanding of landscape architecture. Through consistent storytelling around home, craft, and collaboration, Hollander positions landscape as essential to daily life and contemporary design culture.
SLA: Instagram | Website | Facebook | LinkedIn
How can the complex, slow, and evolving value of landscape architecture be communicated through the fast-paced, icon-hungry lens of social media? For Copenhagen-based SLA, that question is answered through a multitude of social media forms, from behind-the-scenes videos, process stories, and filmed interviews to extensive use of before-and-after photos, natural capital data, and user interviews. According to SLA, “If we can inspire other landscape studios, designers, and students in finding new ways and voices to communicate about the unique values of landscape architecture, we all win.”
The 2025 Social Media Awards Jury
For this competition, we introduced an external jury. We asked practicing professionals from across the field to review submissions and identify the work that’s genuinely moving the conversation forward.
We’re grateful to our jurors for their time and insight in reviewing this year’s submissions:
- Adriana Hernández Aguirre, Landscape Designer, Coleman & Associates
- Nicole Beard, Project Team, Site Design Group, Ltd.
- Katie Cain, Digital Communications and Social Media Manager, American Society of Landscape Architects
- Gonzalo Cruz, Vice President, Design Principal, AECOM
