Landscape Forms, North America’s leading designer and manufacturer of high-design site furniture, structure, LED lighting and accessories, is proud to congratulate Minnue Uhm, Aisha Malik, and Kareem Harris, the 2024 scholarship recipients for the Landscape Forms' and Landscape Architecture Foundation’s annual scholarship program. 

Since 2007, Landscape Forms has supported the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s (LAF) annual scholarships for distinguished undergraduate landscape architecture students. Landscape Forms believes in the positive impact landscape architects can have on the environment and views the scholarship program as an opportunity to support and celebrate the future leaders in the industry. Through its annual scholarship support, Landscape Forms seeks to increase the capacity and influence of the next generation of landscape architects in order to create a more inclusive and sustainable future for the profession. 

Minnue Uhm, this year’s recipient of the 17th annual Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA, is a landscape architecture student at Cornell University who has found his passion in the interdisciplinary challenge. "I have always been interested in architecture, and growing up in my generation, environmental science and climate change are very important topics. So, entering the landscape architecture program at Cornell, I didn’t know exactly what to expect at first, but what I found was a really nice combination of all my interests,” says Uhm. "Right now, I feel like the field is changing, we’re entering an ideas era, and I'm excited to be at the forefront of that. Thinking about the empirical and physical dimensions of landscape design in a way that makes sense economically and socially for communities is so interdisciplinary, so chaotic sometimes, but it’s such a welcome challenge, and it’s made me fall in love with this field."

Aisha Malik, one of two co-recipients of this year’s Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship, is a landscape architecture student at the University of Rhode Island (URI) with a creative spirit and determined drive to take on some of the field’s most pressing challenges. "Since I was young, I’ve been deep into art and drawing every day, and growing up in Alaska, the outdoors has also been a huge part of my lifestyle. Enrolling in the landscape architecture program at URI, I took a chance not knowing much about it initially, but it was hands down the best decision of my life. Landscape architecture perfectly meets all of my creative needs,” says Malik. "One issue that I would like to dedicate part of my career to is climate change in the Arctic. The landscape architecture community in Alaska is extremely small, kind of isolated, yet so crucial. Beginning with an internship up there this summer, I’m really eager to bring new ideas back home and use my degree to help deal with Alaska’s pressing climate change issues."

Kareem Harris, also a co-recipient of this year’s Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship, is a landscape architecture student at the University of Wisconsin Madison who combines entrepreneurial expertise with a love of landscape to drive positive community change. "In 2020, I was a high school graduate in the middle of a pandemic, and I started a landscape maintenance company. In the fall of the same year, I enrolled as a biomedical engineering student, but I was miserable and knew I needed to do something else. I realized I had fallen in love with landscaping, and I decided I should take that passion to the next level by going to school for landscape architecture. And I’m so grateful I did,” says Harris. "My goal is to connect people, and especially African Americans, to nature. There are a lot of health problems and disparities that my community faces, and I think improving access to nature provides immense, long-lasting benefits. I want to create landscapes where people can thrive—where conversations are sparked, where friendships are created, and where people connect with nature and one another on a deeper level."

“I would like to personally congratulate Minnue, Aisha and Kareem as this year’s Landscape Forms and LAF scholarship winners,” says Landscape Forms’ Chief Executive Officer, Margie Simmons. “Listening to the remarkable stories, passions and ambitions of these exceptional students is a personal highlight of mine, but it’s also so much more. It offers an inspiring glimpse into the future innovators and change-makers of the industry. This experience reaffirms our belief in the transformative impact of higher education and increasing its accessibility, underscoring why our scholarship program continues to be such a fundamental part of Landscape Forms.”

To learn more about Landscape Forms' scholarships, visit the Scholarships page.

About Landscape Forms 

Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated collections of high-design site furniture, structures, accessories, and advanced LED lighting. Since its founding in 1969 Landscape Forms has earned a reputation for excellent design, high quality products and exceptional service. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the family of brands includes Loll Designs located in Duluth, Minnesota; Summit Furniture in Monterey, California; and Kornegay Design in Phoenix, Arizona. It has sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Monaco, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. Landscape Forms collaborates with renowned industrial designers and consultancies, landscape architects, and architects to design and develop integrated collections of products that address emerging needs and help create a sense of place. Additionally, the company has formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share its commitment to design. Landscape Forms has an installed base of products around the world. Clients include municipalities, hospitality, residential, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Harvard University, Linked In, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft, and Uber. Landscape Forms has been named one of the Best Workplaces in Manufacturing & Production for 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 by Fortune magazine, Michigan Manufacturer of the Year for 2020 by the Michigan Manufacturers Association, and by 269 Magazine as one of Southwest Michigan’s Wonderful Workplaces.

About the Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA:

The Landscape Forms Scholarship in Memory of Peter Lindsay Schaudt, FASLA celebrates the 30-year career of a leader and visionary in landscape architecture. Peter was one of the founding principals of the award-winning firm, Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architecture in Chicago, Illinois, and a dedicated member of the Board of Directors for Landscape Forms. Peter was widely admired for his incredible talent, dedication, generosity, and integrity. This scholarship is open to landscape architecture students in their final two years of full-time undergraduate study in a LAAB- or LAAC-accredited program in the U.S. or Canada and is awarded on the basis of academic accomplishment and creative design ability. Applicants must demonstrate passion, commitment, and competence in creating artfully-designed places for people. Recent winners of this scholarship also include Christian Moore from Ohio State University in 2018, Guadalupe Rodriguez from Cal Poly Pomona in 2019, Claire Jarvis from the University of Georgia in 2020, Jordan Chiang from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 2021, Najla Said Lopez from the University of Florida in 2022, and Cheryl Zeng from Cornell University in 2023.

About the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Scholarship:

Celebrating its inaugural year in 2021, the Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship reflects Landscape Forms' aim to help create a society where social justice and racial diversity are the norm. Landscape Forms believes the best workplaces embrace individuality where any person can feel a strong sense of belonging—they aspire to that reality for their own workplace and are committed to help spread this mindset across the whole of landscape architecture professions. This scholarship was established as a small but meaningful step toward achieving that vision of a just and diverse community in their industry, helping Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students advance in their education and career in landscape architecture. The Landscape Forms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Scholarship is open to undergraduate landscape architecture students who identify as BIPOC and are currently enrolled in a LAAB- or LAAC-accredited program in the US or Canada. Candidates must demonstrate financial need, academic aptitude, and commitment to the discipline of landscape architecture. Recent winners of this scholarship include Diamond Owens from the University of Georgia in 2021, Adriel Jimenez from the University of Florida and Victor Cizik from the University of Connecticut in 2022, and Jakobi Johnson from Michigan State University and Tairiq Mansfield from Clemson University in 2023.

About the Landscape Architecture Foundation:

For more than 50 years, LAF has been identifying priorities and strengthening the discipline to meet weighty environmental, social, and economic challenges. They believe in the power of design to create a healthier, more equitable, and sustainable world. With $180,000 available annually, LAF is a leading source of scholarships for landscape architecture students. These awards recognize leadership, reward superior student performance, support access and diversity, and assist student