2026 Selection Committee

Competition Coordinator - Outgoing President, ASLA-MN

Han leads a small culturally diverse team at O2 Design that handles projects across various types, scales, and design strategies, ranging from residential courtyards to hundred-acre master plans. She is experienced in project management and works closely with clients to stay on schedule and budget.

She applies holistic and systematic thinking to create innovative design solutions to multifaceted challenges and strives to deliver exceptional results on sophisticated projects. Deeply influenced by her dual-culture background, Han brings her unique character, cultural interpretation, and inspiration to her design. Devoted to and passionate about her work, Han pursues simplicity, functionality, and artistry in design.

Principal/Partner and Director of Design

Tom is considered one of the leading design landscape architects in the country. Tom's interest in art and his passion for design are fueled by a commitment to excellence and innovation. Tom has more than 35 years of experience at a variety of project scales from 800-acre master planning efforts to a 5000-square foot rooftop garden. Tom is known for designing engaging landscapes for some of the most discerning local, national, and global clientele. The studio he established in 1998, O2 Design (formerly oslund.and.assoc.) has consistently produced award-winning work, tallying over 65 local, national, and international awards.

Tom received the Star Tribune "Artist of the Year" Award in 2012 for his integration of art in urban design. His belief in the collaborative process of working closely with clients, architects, engineers, fabricators, and artists has yielded positive results and international recognition as an innovator when it comes to solving complex site design challenges. Tom has also taught and lectured world-wide on his work.

2025 Roger Martin Prize Winner

A designer at TEN X TEN, Kyle’s design approach is centered around a collaborative process where he enjoys making connections and unearthing shared interests to catalyze physically constructed places. His curiosity and openness to creative exploration, paired with my passion towards graphic and visual representation help deepen the site interventions he takes part in.

Kyle found his way to landscape architecture after searching for a way to combine his background in agrarian-focused plant science and construction. Here, his love of designing through the act of making and his curiosity surrounding the ephemeral qualities of ecological systems pair together to inform his work. He is most joyful when curating contextual plant palettes for projects that include native, adaptive, and resilient plant species that can thrive and contribute to existing ecosystems. 

President, ASLA Minnesota

As a licensed Landscape Architect and Partner at Mend Collaborative, Sandy is passionate about applying her experience and skill toward projects that have positive and lasting impacts on communities and the environment. She works at all scales of design, and her work has spanned from large-scale to site-scale planning and implementation. With part of her background coming from design/build, Sandy has a keen eye for details and how things come together, believing in applying sustainability-based practices to the built environment throughout all phases of construction. Sandy also believes in building teams that will support the best project outcomes, and ensuring robust community involvement drives her public space work. She holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and is a registered Landscape Architect in the state of Minnesota.

Professor, Architecture | Department Head of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Design - University of Minnesota

Jennifer Yoos became Head of the School of Architecture in June of 2020. She is an architect and educator and has previously taught as the NADAAA Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, the John G. Williams Distinguished Professor at the University of Arkansas and as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota (1997-2015).

Jennifer is principal and president of VJAA. Based in Minneapolis, the firm is known for its innovative approach to architectural practice, environmental design, and highly crafted buildings. VJAA's practice is grounded in the study of how architecture is interwoven with its social, cultural, and material context. VJAA's work is research-based, experimental, and intentionally diverse, including a wide range of scales from urban design and infrastructure, to architecture, adaptive reuse, installations, and furniture.

Jennifer's practice, research and teaching is grounded in the study of how architecture is interwoven with its social, cultural, and material context. She has developed research and scholarship that explore ideas prevalent in her architectural practice through collaborative publications that include two books; Parallel Cities and a monograph on the work, VJAA, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Principal, O2 Design

In addition to a MLA degree from the University of MN, Sandra holds a BS in Environmental Science Hydrology/Climatology, and an MSc in Physical Geography from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her skill in blending scientific and design thinking makes her an excellent addition to the studio, as does her proficiency in presentation graphics, 3D modeling, and urban design explorations using Revit. Sandra's involvement on projects ranges from broad-scale master planning to small site design, with a focus on sustainability in corporate/academic campus environments. Sandra blends the worlds of science, and research, and design by contributing her deep understanding of the social and ecological function of the environment and its ethical stewardship to each of her projects. As a LEED AP, Sandra views the green building movement as a great opportunity to enrich our projects with the careful integration of sustainability with artful design and innovation. She works from project inception through LEED certification to ensure that our clients sustainability goals are met, while seeking opportunities to educate the public about the relationship between our natural and built environments.