Martha Schwartz
Professor in Practice
Department of Landscape Architecture

 

 

Curriculum Vitae


 
Education
  Harvard University Graduate School of Design; Landscape Architecture Program, 1976-1977
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Master of Landscape Architecture, 1974-76, MLA 1977
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; BFA, cum laude, 1973
 
Professional Registration
  Registered Landscape Architect: State of California, State of Rhode Island, State of Ohio and State of New Mexico
 
Professional Experience
  Martha Schwartz Partners
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, United Kingdom
  Martha Schwartz/Ken Smith/David Meyer, Inc.
San Francisco, California
  The Office of Peter Walker Martha Schwartz Landscape Architects,
New York City and San Francisco, California
  Martha Schwartz Incorporated,
Boston, Massachusetts
  The SWA Group,
Boston, Massachusetts
  The SWA Group East,
Boston, Massachusetts
 
Teaching
  Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007-
  Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1992-2007
  Visiting Distinguished Professor,
Department of Landscape Architecture, City College of New York, 2003-2004
  Visiting Critic:
Harvard University Graduate School of Design,
Rhode Island School of Design,
University of California, Berkeley, California
 
Workshops
  Mississippi State University School of Architecture, Fall 1999
  Rapperswil Engineering School; Rapperswil, Switzerland, 1994 & 1998
  Pennsylvania Avenue Charrette; Washington, D.C., 1995
  Vienna Workshop, Doningasse Urban Development, 1994
  Hamburg Workshop, 1993



Awards
  2007 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science: University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland
    Member of the Mayor’s Design for London Advisory Group: UK
    Awarded Tenure: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Chicago Athenaeum Award for Best New Global Design: Leamouth Peninsula, London
    ASLA Honor Design Award for Mesa Arts Center
  2006 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Design
    ULI Award for Excellence, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, Arizona
  2005 Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts Gold Medal
  2004 Royal Institute of British Architects, Honorary Fellow
    Boston Society of Architects Women in Design Award for Excellence
    Play and Leisure Award , AIT Magazin, Germany
  2001 Award for Innovative Transportation Planning, New Mexico Chapter of the American Planning Association, for the Interstate Corridor Enhancement Plan: A Conceptual Framework, Albuquerque, New Mexico
    Pennsylvania State University, Department of Landscape Architecture, Bracken Fellow
  2000 National Endowment for the Arts Federal Design Achievement Award, Minneapolis Courthouse Plaza
    ASLA Merit Award, HUD Plaza Improvements, Washington, D.C.
  1999 ASLA Merit Award, United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis, MN
    First Place, Three Squares Competition, Coventry, England
    First Place, Lehrter Pltze Competition, Berlin Germany
  1998 U.S. General Services Admin. Design Awards, National Design Citation, Jacob Javits Plaza
  1997 Winning entry in International Exchange Square Competition, Manchester Millennium
    Phillip N. Winslow Landscape Design Award by The Parks Council for Parks in New York City, Jacob Javits Plaza
    ASLA Honor Award, Jacob Javits Plaza
    City of Toronto Urban Design Awards, Community Building: Infrastructure and Public Networks, The Village of Yorkville Park
  1996 ASLA Award, President's Award of Excellence, The Village of Yorkville Park
  1991 ASLA Honor Award, The Citadel Grand Allée
    ASLA Merit Award, Becton Dickinson Atrium
    Resident, American Academy in Rome
  1990 Urban Design Institute, Fellow
  1989 ASLA Merit Award, Rio Shopping Center, Atlanta, Georgia
    ASLA Design Award Urbanology Show, Turf Parterre
  1987 Urban Design Award, Atlanta, Georgia
    Artist in Residence, Radcliffe College
  1983 Visiting Artist in Residence, Die Villa Romana, Florence, Italy



Lectures
  PHALA in Greece
AJ Designing the Public Realm, London
CABE Summer School in Birmingham
ISOLA conference, India
Belfast: Designing the City, Belfast,
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
ULI Conference, Madrid, Spain
Smith College, Northampton, MA
CABE, Birmingham, UK
RIBA, London, UK
Colorado State University
Corcoran Gallery of Art
ASLA Conference, Iowa State University
Clemson Architecture Center, Charleston, South Carolina
MCA, Chicago, IL
SCI Arc, San Diego, CA
The Architectural League of New York
IFLA World Congress 2003, Alberta, Canada
Interior Design Show 2003, Toronto, Canada
Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles
American Institute of Architects, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut
Frederick Olmsted Lecture, Harvard University
Technion University, Israel
AIA, Jacksonville, FL
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
City College of New York
Architektur Galerie Muchen, Germany
Glasgow 1999, Architecture & Design Conference, Scotland
Berlin Technical University
Smithsonian Institute
Kiley Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Design
University of Michigan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Melbourne University, Australia
University of Auckland
New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
University of California, Berkeley
Power Plant, Toronto
Washington University
Alcan Lecturer, Vancouver
LaJolla Institute of Contemporary Art
Australia Garden Design Conference
Rice University
University of Texas
Urban Development Forum 1993, Hamburg, Germany
Southern College of Technology, Atlanta
University of Minnesota
Architectural Society of Atlanta
University of Pennsylvania Symposium
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Technical University, Munich
New Jersey ASLA
Architalx, Portland, Maine
Rhode Island School of Design
Australia AILA
Art in Public Places, Orlando, Florida
Barcelona



Art Commissions
  2001 "51 Garden Ornaments," Westphalia, Germany
  2001 Bo01 City of Tomorrow Exhibition, Malmo, Sweden
  2001 "So LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes," Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
  1999 Mechtenberg Land Art Gallery, Munich, Germany
  1997 "Field Work," Spoleto U.S.A., Charleston, South Carolina
  1996 Broward County, 1% for Art, Broward Civic Arena, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  1994 Metro-Dade County, 1% for Art, Miami Sound Wall, Miami Beach, Florida
  1994 Central Artery and Tunnel Project, 1% for Art, Traveler's Street Underpass, Boston, Massachusetts
  1993 Philadelphia Re-Development Agency, Marriott Convention Center (% for Art Finalist)
  1989 Los Angeles Center, Los Angeles, California (2% for Art Program)
  1988 "Turf Parterre" for "The New Urban Landscape" Exhibition, World Financial Center, Battery Park, New York City; Olympia & York
  1988 Winning Entry, Artist/Designer for Marina Linear Park Competition, San Diego, California (1% for Art Program)
  1988 "Limed Parterre with Skywriting," Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  1987 Winning Entry, Artist for Todos Santos Plaza Competition, Concord, California (1% for Art Program)
  1987 Artist for Austin Airport, Austin, Texas (1% for Art Program)
  1986 Artist for Child Study and Treatment Center, Fort Steilacoom, Washington; Washington State Arts Commission (1% for Art Program)
  1984 Artist for Candlestick Park Recreation Area, San Francisco, California; National Endowment for the Arts Grant
  1983 Winner of Competition for King County Jail Plaza, Seattle, Washington; National Endowment for the Arts 1% for Art
  1984 Veterans Administration Hospital Project, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; National Endowment for the Arts 1% for Art
  1982 NECCO Garden, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts



Exhibitions / Shows
  2007 “Public City London 2007,” New London Architecture, London, UK
  2006 “The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation,” Van Alen Institute, New York City
  2004 "Groundswell," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
  2003 "Post-Modernism Revisited," German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
  2003 "Asfalto: The Character of the City," Triennale di Milano; Milan, Italy
  2002 "Together/Insieme," Museu Nazionale di Architectura, Ferrara, Italy
  2001 "Public Design 2001 Expo," Berlin, Germany
  2000 "Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference," Bard Graduate Center, New York, New York
  2000 "100 Years of Landscape Architecture at Harvard," Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  1999 "Representing Landscape Architecture: Selections from the Frances Loeb Library and Other Collections," Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  1999 "Landscape & Meaning: As Far as the Eye Can See," Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
  1998 "Face to Face: Art and the Public," Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, New York
  1997 "Democratic Design: A New Era of Federal Architecture," Chicago Anthenaeum
  1997 "Citizen Sisters" Exhibition - Sagacho exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
  1995 "Austins Art in Public Places," Austin Municipal Building, Austin, Texas
  1995 "Off the Shelf," Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  1995 "DER GARTEN. Gaerten in der Kunst-Gaerten in der Schweiz seit 1870," Cultural Center, Pfaeffikon, Switzerland
  1991 "Green," Max Protetch Gallery, New York City
  1991 "Projects in Architecture," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
  1988 "The New Urban Landscape" Exhibition, Olympia & York, New York, New York
  1987 Mary Miss / Martha Schwartz, Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  1987 "Beyond Ornamentation," The Institute of Business Design
  1987 "The Outdoor Chair," Topher/Delaney, Sausalito, California
  1986 "Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs," Urban Design Center, New York; Harvard Graduate School of Design
  1986 "Six Views," Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton
  1984 "Artists as Designers," group show and lecture series, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
  1982 "Artist's Gardens and Parks," Hayden Gallery, MIT; Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art; Ohio Foundation of Arts



Most Recent Publications
  “A peek at a new arts hall”, by Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News, January 26, 2007.
  “Landscape design is a quality of life issue: Martha Schwartz and Partners”, by Lucy Bullivant, A+U magazine, January 2007.
  “Portland Design leads the way for London mall”, by Scott Billings, Design Week, January 10, 2007
  “Martha Schwartz”, Pollination by Woods Bagot, 2006.
  “Martha Schwartz on a phone”, Metropolismag.com, November 8, 2006
  “Brief Encounter Martha Schwartz”, RIBA Journal, September, 2006.
  “Frauen Power: Grünes Licht für neue Raüme”, by Von Caspa Scharër, SonnatagsZeitung, March 12, 2006.
  “The World Framed by a Bagel”, by Elizabeth Farrelly, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 18, 2006.
  “Squaring Up to the Future”, by Shane O’Toole, The Sunday Times (Dublin), January 15, 2006.
  “Docklands Redesign to be ‘Urban Magnet’”, by Frank McDonald, The Irish Times, January 14, 2006.
  “Inside Storeys”, by Paul Finch, The Architectural Review, November 2005.
  “Revolutionizing Landscape Architecture”, by Franziska Zydek, UBS Wealth Management, 2005.
  “Exchange Square”, by Peter Reed, Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape, Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
  "Schatten und Wasser:  Mesa Arts Center", Deutsche BauZeifschrift, July 2005
  "Martha Schwartz: Davis Residence", The New Garden Paradise, Great Private Gardens of the World, by Dominique Browning, October, 2005
  "Can Gardens Mean?", by Jane Gillette, Landscape Journal, 2005
  "Mesa Arts Center," TOPOS, 2005
  "Landscape Architecture 101", by Deborah Bishop, DWELL, July/August 2004
  The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz, by Martha Schwartz, Ed. by Tim Richardson, 2004.
  "Martha Schwartz: Verde a Colori" by Sara Banti, Casamica, May 2004.
  "Vangardens" by Penny Lewis, Prospect, May 2004.
  "Design 100, no.45," Metropolitan Home, May/June 2004.
  "Loud and Clear" by Dick Dunmire, Garden Design, May/June 2004.
  "Can America Go Public?" by Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Magazine, May 16, 2004.
  "Die Plastik-Pflanzerin" by Von Martin Strauss, Garten Magazin, April/May 2004.
  "Better Than Nature" by Ellie Duffy, Building Design, April 30, 2004.
  "Black Magic" by Tim Richardson, The Daily Telegraph, April 3, 2004.
  "New-Style Gardens" by Tony Heywood, Garden Design Journal, March 2004.
  "Artist’s eye with activist’s anger" by Jez Abbott, Landscape Review, March 2004.
  "One Step Back; Two Forward" by Anne Beswick, Garden Design Journal, December 2003/January 2004.
  "Faculty Project," Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2003/Winter 2004.
  "What are the Ingredients for Successful Public Spaces," greenplaces, December 2003.
  "[Urban] Jungle Warfare" by Pamela Young, Azure, July/August 2003.
  Artscapes by Luca Galofaro, 2003 (Power Lines).
  Modern Landscape by Michael Spens, 2003 (Gifu Kitagata Apartments).
  "Land Marks: Martha Schwartz Talks with Nina James," Architecture Boston, March/April 2003.
  "Communal Gardens, Gifu Kitagata Apartments," Urban Spaces, Links International, January 2003.
  "Whitehead Splice Garden," Designing Information Spaces: The Social Approach, Springer Verlag, London, October 2002.
  "Swiss Re Verwal Tungsgebaude Bei Munchen Bothe Richter Teherani," Magazin Baumeister, August 2002.
  "Landscape Architecture issue," Dialogue, August 2002.
  "Martha Schwartz:  Bunte Garten Bilder," Eden Magazine, Summer 2002.
  "Dueling Designers — Rooftop Warriors," Housebeautiful, July 2002.
  "The Davis Residence," Gardening Which? Magazine, June 2002.
  "Eine Harte Sache: Swiss Re Headquarters," Garten + Landschaft, June 2002.
  "Pop Art Meets Zen" by Erika Entholt, Premium Magazine, April 2002.
  "Manchester: "Puddingstein," Granit und Stahl," Garten + Landschaft, April 2002.
  "A Constellation of Pieces" by Marc Treib, Landscape Architecture, March 2002.
  "Housing the Future" by Kenneth Helphand, Landscape Architecture, March 2002.
  "Land Matters" by J. William Thompson, Landscape Architecture, March 2002.
  "Ideas in Action, A Joyous Geometry," Gardening Which?, March 2002.
  "Designer Profile: Martha Schwartz," Garden Design Journal, February/March 2002.
  "Foreword," The Lyrical Landscape by Burle Marx, August 2001.
  "Weeping Willow," UTE PA Bo01, August 2001.