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Martha Schwartz challenged the designers of her day. None of them had seen anything like her early projects, which began as mostly small gardens and art installations and over her years of practice grew to important public spaces. First, in the U.S., and then, in Europe and Asia. Her offices in London, New York, and Shanghai have produced many projects with her unique sensibility and refined detail.
Her teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Design influenced a generation of landscape designers worldwide.
Martha Schwartz
EDUCATION:
University of Michigan, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, BFA, 1973
University of Michigan, MLA, Landscape Architecture, 1977
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Postgraduate Studies, Landscape Architecture, 1976-1977PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
PRINCIPAL AT MARTHA SCHWARTZ PARTNERS, 40+ YEARS: SELECTED PLANNING AND DESIGN WORKDallas Arts District Master Plan, 1983
Reston Town Center, Reston, Virginia, 1988-2025
Cleveland Gateway Sports District, Master Plan and Landscape Architecture, 1994-1990
East Grounds of the US Capitol and New Visitor Center Landscape, 2000-2008
Master Plan and Landscape Architecture Concept Plan, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2002
The Avenue, Mixed-Use Development, Washington, DC, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, 2006-2011
Rehabilitation of the Landscape at the Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting Pool, 2008-2012
Landscape Design for US Embassies: The Hague, Helsinki, and Beirut, 2008-Current
Losner Park, Homestead, Florida, Landscape Architecture, 2019-2022
Gasworx Redevelopment, Tampa, Forida, Planning, Rezoning, and Landscape Architecture, Current SELECTED CLIMATE LEADERSHIP AND ADVOCACY:
Author of the climate change "Declaration," Landscape Architecture Foundation "New Landscape Declaration" Summit, 2016
Founder and Participant, GSD Climate Change Working Group
Founding Member, Working Group of Sustainable Cities, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Founding Member, Landscape Architecture Foundation Working Group on Climate Change
Founder, MAYDAY.Earth, non-profit for climate communication and education on Nature-Based and Geoengineering SolutionsSELECTED AWARDS:
ASLA Design Medal, 2020
Honorary Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
Cooper Hewitt National Design Award
Women in Design Award for Excellence, Boston Society of Architects
Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Ulster, Belfast
Fellowship, Urban Design Institute
Visiting Residency, Radcliffe College
Visiting Residency, American Academy in Rome
Honorary Fellowship, Royal Institute of British Architects
Council of Fellows Award, American Society of Landscape Architects
Doctor Honoris Causa, Boston Architectural CollegeSELECTED TEACHING:
Helped shape the first required climate change course for incoming students, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2020
Seminar on geoengineering, with Harvard School of Engineering and Applied SciencesElizabeth Meyer
EDUCATION:
University of Virginia, Master of Landscape Architecture 1982
Cornell University, M.A. Historic Preservation with a Minor in Landscape Architecture History 1983
University of Virginia, B.S. Landscape Architecture 1978PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCE
Olmsted Walk at the National Zoo, Washington, DC, 1983
University of Virginia Historic Central Grounds Landscape Plan, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1985
King Street Station Urban Design Plan, Alexandria, Virginia, 1985
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway Historic Resource Study, Washington, DC, 1986
Bryant Park Restoration, New York, New York, 1987
Carnegie Mellon University East Campus Plan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1988
Midtown Cultural District Open Space Plan, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989
Wellesley College Master Plan, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1997-1999
Moore's Square Master Plan, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2010-2011
Framing a Modern Masterpiece: City+Arch+River, St. Louis, Missouri, Winning Competition Team, 2010-2011SELECTED EXHIBITION
"Designing with History. Curating Nature. The Gardens within the Academical Village, 1810-2008," UVA Special Collections Library, 2008
"Redlines. A Field Guide to the Design of the Charlottesville Downtown Mall," Elmaleh Gallery, UVA School of Architecture, 2009
"More than Just Bricks. Halprin's 1973 Vision for Charlottesville," Elmaleh Gallery, UVA School of Architecture, 2010 SELECTED AWARDS:
Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2003
Jot Carpenter Teaching Medal, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2017
Vincent Scully Prize, National Building Museum, 2019SELECTED TEACHING:
Assistant and Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1988-1993
Professor, Dean (2014-2016), and Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, 1993-CurrentJane Brown Gillette
EDUCATION:
B.A. magna cum laude with Honors, Vassar College, 1965
Ph.D., English Literature, Yale University, 1972 (Medusa/Muse: Women as Images of Chaos and Order in the Writings of Henry Adams and Henry James)PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & TEACHING
2004-present: Peter Walker and Partners, Berkeley, California: Archive for the World Trade Center Memorial and general pr work
2010, 2012: Graduate theory course in Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley
1998 to 2003: Executive Editor, Land Forum, a four-color international design magazine devoted to landscape architecture, urban design, gardens, and environmental planning, and Spacemaker Press, publishers of books on landscape architecture and land art 1995 to 1998: Features Editor, Landscape Architecture Magazine, published by the American Society of Landscape Architects
1989 to 1995: Senior Editor, Historic Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Forum, the Trust's professional magazine 1968 to 1987: Various adjunct positions teaching English literature and composition at American University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and St.Albans SchoolSELECTED EDITED BOOKS
PWP Landscape Architecture: Building Ideas. San Rafael, California: Oro Editions, 2016.
Preserving Modern Landscape Architecture I, II. Cambridge: Spacemaker Press, 1999, 2004
The Offices of Hideo Sasaki by Melanie Simo. Cambridge: Spacemaker Press, 2001
100 Years of Landscape Architecture by Melanie Simo. Washington, D.C.: ASLA Press, 1999
Moods in the Landscape by A.E. Bye. Cambridge: Spacemaker Press, 1999SELECTED AWARDS:
Vassar W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1972; Ossabaw Island Project, 1980;
O. Henry Award, 1988; Lawrence Foundation Award, 2009; William Peden Prize, 2015