Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture Michelle Franco was recently invited to serve on The Architect’s Newspaper’s 2023 Best of Design Awards Jury to help celebrate outstanding built and unbuilt architectural projects.

The awards and program recognize work over a range of categories including student work, retail, residential, landscape, and more, and is open to any architecture, design firms, or projects in North America.

Both an academic and an activist, Franco explores the inherent relationship between the ecological and the social. Her work interrogates race and class as it relates to landscapes, drawing from her Mexican heritage and the ways in which landscape architecture is dependent upon Latinx immigrant labor. 

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