U.VA. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS 
SWEEP NATIONAL COMPETITION

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 17 -- University of Virginia
landscape architecture students have swept first-, second- and
third-place prizes, plus two of four honorable mentions, in a
national landscape design competition sponsored by the country's
premier public garden.
	The U.Va. School of Architecture graduate students,
competing among 55 students from leading landscape programs,
garnered $13,000 of the $14,000 in prizes in the challenge,
sponsored by Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa.
	One of the world's foremost horticultural showplaces, the
1,050-acre display garden is dedicated to preserving the spirit and
beauty of the early 20th century gardens of its founder, Pierre S.
du Pont.  The juried competition called for creating an entirely new
indoor landscape display for the garden's largest conservatory, the
100-foot by 216-foot East Conservatory, which is undergoing
renovations.
	The winning U.Va. students, all of whom competed as part of
landscape architecture professor Warren T. Byrd's fall semester
design studio, were Mark Hafs, first place ($5,000); Anne Russell,
second place ($4,000); Maria Tucker, third place ($3,000); Alison
Burke-Sochol and Geoffrey Ferrell, honorable mention ($500 each).
	The competition's jury, made up of nationally recognized
landscape architects, praised the winning designs as rigorously
constructed and "expressing natural processes or the relationship
between people and nature....They effectively took horticulture and
the rich potential hidden beneath the surface beauty of plants, and
incorporated them into the lives of people...."
	The winning concepts will be used to develop a final design
for renovating the conservatory.
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February 16, 1995
	For additional information contact Elizabeth Sullivan at
Longwood Gardens at (610) 388-1000, ext. 442, or Warren T. Byrd at
the U.Va. School of Architecture at (804) 924-3715.
(Descriptions of winning design-concepts are attached.)