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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 |
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| Martha Schwartz/Ken Smith/David Meyer, Inc. San Francisco, California |
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| The Office of Peter Walker Martha Schwartz Landscape
Architects, New York City and San Francisco, California |
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| Martha Schwartz Incorporated, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| The SWA Group, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| The SWA Group East, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Teaching | ||
| Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007- |
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| Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1992-2007 |
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| Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, City College of New York, 2003-2004 |
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| Visiting Critic: Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, University of California, Berkeley, California |
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| 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. | |