In the future, the Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation will award a special prize to graduating landscape architecture students whose thesis is related to the Hungarian garden heritage.
On 11 February, the graduating Master’s degree students of the Institute of Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Garden Art at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences were officially awarded their diplomas. At the ceremony held in the Ceremonial Hall of the Buda Campus, the diploma prize awarded by the Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation was handed over by Dr. Ágnes Herczeg, Mihály Mőcsényi Award-winning Associate Professor, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation, to Enikő Metzger, whose thesis project. As a professional non-governmental umbrella organisation, the Hungarian Garden Heritage Foundation considers one of its missions to encourage and promote the recognition of the landscape architecture profession in order to preserve our garden heritage. To this end, in the future, it will award special prizes for diploma thesis projects that focus on the renewal, sustainability and functional adaptation to contemporary needs of historic and heritage gardens.
