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Educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BSLA) and Harvard Graduate School of Design (MLA) Peter Walker has been practicing landscape architecture since1959. He was a founding partner at Sasaki Walker Associates and Peter Walker and Partners and has been designing projects worldwide and collecting and making minimalist art since 1980. He has been Chairman of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard GSD and the Landscape Department at UC Berkeley. He was the publisher of Spacemaker Press from 1995 to 2001.
In 2025, his sculpture was shown at the Lar Landa Gallery in San Francisco. He is a founder of Spacemaker Gallery in 2025. LANDSCAPE AS ART, ART AS LANDSCAPE is from a talk given at the gallery opening.

PETER WALKER

EDUCATION:

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, MLA, 1957 (Weidenman Prize, 1957)
University of California, Berkeley, BSLA, 1955

SELECTED AWARDS:

The Richard Brettell Award in the Arts, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2017 
J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries In Urban Development, Urban Land Institute, 2012 
ASLA Firm Award (PWP Landscape Architecture), 2012 
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, University of Illinois, 2008 
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award, 2007 
Geoffry Jellicoe Gold Medal, IFLA, 2005 
ASLA Medal, ASLA, 2004 
Thomas Jefferson Medal, University of Virginia, 2004 
Centennial Medal, Harvard University, 2003 
John R. Bracken Medal, Pennsylvania State University, 2003 
Honorary Doctorate of Landscape Architecture, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2003 
Institute Honor, AIA, 1992 
Resident, American Academy in Rome, 1991 
Fellow, ASLA 
Fellow, Institute for Urban Design

SELECTED AUTHORSHIP:

Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture: Defining the Craft with Jane Brown Gillette. San Francisco: ORO Editions, 2005. 
Minimalist Gardens with Leah Levy. Washington, D.C.: Spacemaker Press, 1997. 
Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape with Melanie Simo. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994.

SELECTED TEACHING:

Chairman, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1997–1999 
Charles Eliot Chair, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1992 
Chairman, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1978–1981 
Acting Director, Urban Design Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1977–1978

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