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Awards, press, research, and conversations shaping our practice and the communities we serve.
Featured · 2025
The 2025 WxLA Scholars
Congratulations to DesignJones team member Melissa Lemuz on being selected as a 2025 WxLA Scholar.
The Tamir Rice Memorial
After nearly 12 years since the passing of Tamir Rice, the memorial honoring his life is now officially a historic landmark.
Under Pressure
Diane Jones Allen is a contributor to this article that talks about the current challenges professors are facing in Landscape Architecture Programs.
The 2025 WXLA Scholars
Congratulations to our very own Melissa Lemuz for receiving this award! We are so proud of her.
2025 TX ASLA Merit Award I Freedmen’s Town/Fourth Ward Master Plan
Houston, Texas
2024 TX ASLA Merit Award I The Divine Nine Plaza
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
GROUND TRUTH
With a new lynching memorial in Fort Worth, DesignJones continues to create landscape of racial reconciliation.
Congrats Diane! CELA FELLOW 2024
Diane was awarded the CELA FELLOW 2024. Membership in the Academy of Fellows represents the highest level of achievement within the CELA membership and honors a faculty member's accomplishments in teaching, scholarship and/or creative activity, and service.
Fort Worth’s Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse
This article from the Texas Observer recounts the story of Fred Rouse and the impact groups like TCCPJ & Transform 1012 are making in Fort Worth, TX.
Women in Landscape Architecture: Amplifying our voices
This is a recap video that follows 18 female industry leaders & students in landscape architecture to discuss critical issues and future opportunities for women in the profession. Courtesy of Landscape Forms.
Community Engagement - Earth X
This is an interview at Earth-x 2023 where Diane talks about community engagement in design and service learning.
The Butterfly Effect - Landscape Architecture Magazine
This is an article on the Tamir Rice Memorial
An Eye on the Past - A racial terror lynching that occurred 100 years ago is forcing a city to reckon with its past while providing hope for its future. - Fort Worth Magazine
This is an article that talks about the making of the Mr. Fred Rouse Memorial
Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee - Austin Allen
This is the selected 200 Honorary Committee, which Austin Allen was a part of.
Diane Jones Allen selected as the 2022 Selection Committee for The Women of Color Licensure Advancement Program
This is an article that talks about the selected members for the 2022 Committee for the Women of Color Licensure, and Diane Jones Allen was selected as one of these members.
Living Freedom Through the Maroon Landscape - Places Journal - Diane Jones Allen
This is an essay written by Diane Jones Allen on Places Journal. It talks about the swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana and how they offer a powerful model for coping with climate disruption. This essay is adapted from a manuscript in progress to be published by University of South Carolina Press. It appears courtesy of the author.
Field Notes on Design Activism: 4 - Diane Jones Allen
This is the fourth installment of a narrative survey in which several dozen educators and practitioners share perspectives on the intensifying demands for meaningful change across design pedagogy and practice. Diane Jones Allen is one of those educators that provides a perspective in this article.
2021 Fuller Lecture: Recovery, A Place-Based Approach to Healing for the Vulnerable
Interview with Diane Jones Allen
CHALLENGE OUR ROOTS: ADVOCACY IN THE DESIGN PROFESSION Harvard University Graduate School of Design African American Student Union
This is a lecture that Diane Jones Allen was one of the speakers at Harvard GSD AASU about advocacy in the design profession.
2021 Olmsted Scholars - Landscape Architecture Foundation -Award for Angeles Margarida
This is an article about the LAF 2021 selected Olmsted Scholar Nominee Winners. Angeles Margarida was one of these nominees.
“The Maroon Landscape: A Cultural Approach to Coastal Resiliency” Dumbarton Oaks
Diane Jones Allen was selected to be a 2021 Dumbarton Oaks Fellow where she focused her research on “The Maroon Landscape: A Cultural Approach to Coastal Resiliency”.
Landscape Architecture Graduate Student Partners with FabLab to Complete Thesis Project
This is an article about how Angeles Margarida utilized the FabLab at the University of Texas at Arlington to complete her thesis research for the Master of Landscape Architecture Program.
The Community Classroom - UTA Magazine
This is an article from the UTA Magazine about how UTA integrates community service into academic work, which Angeles Margarida provides her perspective on her travel to Tanzania, Africa.
2021-2022 Pennsylvania State University Bracken Fellow for Landscape Architecture - Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen
Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen were honored as the Bracken Fellows for 2021-2022.
Diane Jones Allen is the 2021 Chair for the Student Awards Jury - ASLA
Diane Jones Allen was selected as the ASLA Student Award Chair Jury.
The Bill Millsap Fellowship - Angeles Margarida 2021 Award Recipient
Angeles Margarida was the 2021 recipient of this award, which funded her thesis research for her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.
2020 Olmsted Scholars - Landscape Architecture Foundation - Award for Niveditha Dasa Gangadhar
This is an article about the LAF 2020 selected Olmsted Scholar Nominee Winners. Niveditha Dasa Gangadhar was one of these nominees.
Diane Jones Allen inspires faculty and students
This is an article about how Diane Jones Allen inspires the faculty and students of the University of Maryland with her lecture.
Tamir Rice Memorial Design
This article talks about the approval of the Tamir Rice Memorial.
Forum: Dallas Deck Parks and Connective Parks
Diane Jones Allen was one of the speakers at this forum focusing on connectors and community gathering spaces between and within sections of cities.
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Book Review
This is a book review completed by Diane Jones Allen.
Untapped Potential: Increasing Diversity in Landscape Architecture
This is an article from Total Landscape Care where Diane Jones Allen talks about increasing diversity in the Landscape Architecture field.
2018 National Awards Jury - Cooper Hewitt I Smithsonian Design Museum
Diane Jones Allen was part of the National Design Awards Jury for these Awards.
Climate Change, Resilience, and Smart Policy
This is a vimeo video about ASLA talks about climate, resilience and smart policies. Diane Jones Allen was part of this group of people discussing these topics.
Managing Stormwater
This is a vimeo video where Diane Jones Allen talks about managing Stormwater.
ASLA Blue Ribbon Panelist
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Climate Change and Resilience last fall to offer communities strategies for adapting to global climate change and its impacts on human health and the environment. The panel, composed of leaders from landscape architecture, planning, engineering, architecture, public policy, and community engagement, met September 21-22, 2017, at the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. Diane Jones Allen was part of this panel of professionals.
Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
This book investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential solutions.
Design As Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity
Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, Design as Democracy shows how to design with communities in empowering and effective ways. Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen are part of the professionals who participated in writing this book.
2017 Distinguished Alumni Award
There are few other environmental design colleges whose alumni have gone out into the world and created as positive an impact in as many areas as those from UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. More than designing structures, landscapes, and urban plans, CED alumni have changed lives, nourished communities, healed and enhanced environments, and enriched the human experience. By their actions and accomplishments, CED alumni have proven that an education focused on environmental and social justice, innovation, and creativity can lead to remarkable outcomes. Diane Jones Allen and Austin Allen were part of those four honorees.
LAMCAST: Claiming Open Spaces
This is a Youtube documentary film that addresses city parks in Columbus, New Orleans, Detroit, Oakland, and Montgomery, and the African-Americans who frequent them. Public spaces, and the ways in which we use them, sometimes conflict with official city planning.
Community Service Award - Honors And Awards ASLA
Design Jones LLC received the Community Service Award for providing sustained, pro bono service demonstrating the sound principles or values of landscape architecture.
Diane Jones Allen works to put public spaces and neighborhoods back together in post-Katrina New Orleans. By Adam Regn-Arvidson, FASLA
This is an article from the Landscape Architecture Magazine that talks about Diane Jones Allen’s work on post-Katrina New Orleans.
Quad: The LSU College of Art & Design Magazine January 2015 issue
This is an article in the Quad LSU Magazine that talks about how Austin Allen, other LSU professors and his students accomplished a service learning experience to assist in the healing of Haiti.