2004 Design Honor Award for Unbuilt Works
Presented by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Minnesota Chapter.

Successful contemporary rural development requires strong local leadership, and places for collaboration and cooperation - in short, a learning community - a Rural Learning Center (RLC). The site is to be a place of gathering. That notion informed the siting of the three RLC structures in an intimate circle to enclose the Center's central gathering space. Natural elements - windrows, prairies grasses, and water - are gently threaded through structural volumes. An iconic circle of modern windmills mark the site - visible for miles in each direction - they produce electricity with the same wind that their ancestors used to pump water. The RLC is a model that can be replicated and adapted to rural communities across the Midwest and the United States.