Yazan Mahadin is a Jordanian Architect and Landscape Architect. He is the recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architecture (Mississippi Chapter) Honor Award for Excellence in the Study of Landscape Architecture in 2015, three ASLA Merit Awards, three departmental awards from Mississippi State University, and an Award from the Environmental Protection Agency EPA in the US in 2014. In 2019, Mahadin led a team of 6 architects and won the first place of the ManhattanCall Competition in NYC.
Yazan Mahadin is currently the CEO of MK Associates, Jordan's first landscape architecture firm since 1987. Mahadin received his bachelors degree in Architecture From Cairo University, and received his masters degree in Landscape Architecture from Mississippi State University. For the last ten years, he has been an advocate of promoting landscape architecture as a tool to protect and enhance the environment. Yazan’s motto is to use landscape architecture as an art for survival.
MK Associates, Amman, JO, Chief Executive Officer
M.K. Associates offers the full range of services in landscape architecture, working directly with the owner or project developers, or through the project architects. M.K. Associates prepares landscape designs, working drawings, technical specifications, cost estimates and performs construction administration in the field. Projects range from urban plazas, roof terraces and structural gardens to interior landscapes, office or industrial complexes, campuses, historic sites, residential communities, parks and resorts.
The Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, US, MSc. Landscape Architecture
Faculty of Engineering - Cairo University, Cairo, EG, BArch, Architecture
First Prize - ManhattanCall Competition 2019, 1st Place
Manhattan Sport Center is designed to fit into a scenario of this characterization to complete an urban area without a programmatic design. The building will be located next to the nearby Madison Avenue School and will become an aggregation center for students and local citizens that will flow into it during public events becoming a covered sports center available to the local population. An architecture capable of integrating itself into a constantly changing context through a new sense of community.
“...the project was inspired by the important relationship that a sports center and its community must establish by fulfilling an important role of social infrastructure. The site, previously used as a parking lot, does not cancel its past identity but reinforces it; the center is high and is accessible via ramps to ventilate and let natural light penetrate inwards. Squares and terraces on different levels become areas of community service during public events. An intention of aggregation reinforced by the use of transparent surfaces that tend to dematerialize the limit between public and private. Each point becomes a field of observation that refers to a nearby place, a stimulus of curiosity that suggests users a way to discover the center through an experience integrated with the place…..”
ASLA Merit Award 2016, Award
ASLA Merit Award for the Winterville Mounds Museum in Mississippi. I was asked last year to propose a new design for the Winterville Mounds Museum. The Museum and the park is listed on the National Register of Historic places. The site is maintained by the Historic properties division of the Mississippi Department Achieves and History.
ASLA Honor Award 2015, 1st Place
Honor Award for Excellence in the study of Landscape Architecture 2015
Outstanding Teaching Assisstant Award, Award
Faculty of Department of Landscape Architecture acknowledge "Yazan Mahadin" with the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the 2014- 2015 Academic Year in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program for demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities as a graduate teaching assistant in landscape architecture.
Planning & Design Award, Award
Faculty of Department of Landscape Architecture acknowledge "Yazan Mahadin" with the Planning and Design Award for the 2014- 2015 Academic Year in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program for demonstrated knowledge, skills, abilities, and potential in planning and design area of the profession of landscape architecture.
Technology Award, Award
Faculty of Department of Landscape Architecture acknowledge "Yazan Mahadin" with the Technology Award for the 2014- 2015 Academic Year in the Master of Landscape Architecture Program for demonstrated knowledge, skills, abilities, and potential in the technology in the profession of landscape architecture.
Design Challenge 2015 - Memphis, 1st Place
The Come Alive Outside Design Challenge creates the opportunity for teams of college and high school students to work together with landscape professionals to design and build engaging outdoor learning environments at schools and childcare facilities. In partnership with Come Alive Outside and The Kitchen Community, Michael Hatcher and Associates hosted the 2015-2016 Design Challenge and brought top college Landscape Architecture and Landscape Management students to Memphis to participate in the program. On October 1st-3rd, students from Auburn University, Hinds Community College, Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University visited Memphis Catholic Middle and High School and worked with the students and teachers there to create initial ideas for the new space. On November 20th it was announced that MSU team won the 2015 Memphis Design Challenge
EPA Campus RainWorks Challenge 2013, 2nd Place
MSU Students Place Second Nationally in US EPA's Campus RainWorks Challenge
The US Environmental Protection Agency's Campus RainWorks Challenge is a design competition aimed at inspiring students to "develop innovative green infrastructure systems that mitigate the impacts of urban storm water while supporting vibrant and sustainable communities." The MSU student team chose to redesign a very vibrant, but underutilized space on the MSU campus which they renamed, "The Union Green." The competition was a project in Professor Cory Gallo's graduate design class which is focused on design issues related to water. The team's design focused on creating a multi-functional space which not only manages stormwater in an artful way, but also creates an educational and inspiring social setting for students, faculty and visitors to the campus.
Sources:http://water.epa.gov/infrastructure/greeninfrastructure/crw_2013winners.cfm http://msulalc.blogspot.com/2014/04/msu-students-place-second-nationally-in.htm
