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Martha Schwartz
Biography
Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architect
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects, creating public realm spaces that engage with people, and build community through intelligent, focused, yet unexpected ideas-based design. Her background is in both fine arts and landscape architecture and is a Professor In Practice at The Harvard Graduate School of Design here she has taught since 1992.
Her mission is to explore the relationship between landscape, art and culture and challenge traditional concepts of landscape design; find opportunities where landscape design solutions can enhance the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of a place and raise them to a level of fine art; and make landscape design critical to the sustainability of our surroundings. Martha has over 29 years of experience as a landscape architect and artist collaborating with a variety of world-renowned architects on a diverse portfolio of projects. She holds a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of Ulster, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Cooper- Hewitt Museum National Design Award for her body of work in Landscape Architecture, an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects, several design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome of which she is a Fellow. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about the landscape with her work featuring widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions.
Lorraine Landels, Designer
Lorraine Landels is a principal of Martha Schwartz Partners and is responsible for developing client relationships. She has a background in fine arts and has 30 years experience as a designer. She has worked as project and strategy director on many prestigious projects in Europe, USA, the Far East and the Middle East. She is currently the Principal in Charge on major Master Plans in Qatar; a new development programme for the Children’s Project in Damascus, Syria; Leamouth Peninsula, London, UK; Edessa Town, Greece; Boulogne Seguin HQ, France; and Parc 1, Seoul, Korea. Lorraine is furthermore intrinsic to developing further collaborative potentials between Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, The Harvard Business School and the wider creative profession.
Philosophy
Martha Schwartz Partners was founded in 1990 to provide a full range of landscape design services conceived and executed at the highest artistic level possible. Over the years, our practice has evolved from providing landscape services primarily for private sector urban environments to large-scale public projects, land reclamation and planning studies on complex sites. Our landscape designs have received award-winning attention, and our work has been featured in numerous prominent publications. To create these innovative landscapes, our office explores the relationship between landscape, art, and culture, and challenges traditional concepts of landscape design. To implement our designs, we offer a full range of services including Landscape Design, Master Planning, Urban Regeneration, City Branding, Site Planning, Urban Design, Art Commissions, Public Realm and Consultancy. Currently, Martha Schwartz Partners has two offices – one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and the other in London, UK. Our two locations give us the flexibility of coordinating projects from either office with Martha Schwartz, as President, involved in directing both locations.
MSP believes landscape architecture lends a positive effect on the community by providing a healthy environment that engenders freedom of thought, creativity and curiosity. It is from those beliefs and values that our designs are realized. Over the years we have evolved with the environment and changing ideals of our society while remaining innovative and forward-thinking, staying true to our convictions that landscape design is critical to the health and sustainability of our surroundings. Our design philosophy emanates from a deep passion for exploring surrounding environments and pursuing quality over quantity. As we envision ourselves as a part of ‘nature’, aesthetics are a necessary component of environmentalism. The aesthetic quality, or design, of our environments will determine their success and relevance to our respective cultures. The aesthetic quality of our work begins at the preliminary concept and design development stage. Our energies are ignited at this stage as we feel strongly it is the concept, the vision shaped by our team and the client that collectively creates the path to excellence.
Our philosophy motivates us to conduct extensive research and develop flexible design frameworks that conceive developments as integrated with the surrounding community and the landscape and furthermore, it inspires us to bring total commitment, talent and time to each project. We take our cues and design inspiration from the site and social, economic and environmental context. We develop a range of design concepts and strategies, receive input from the client and its constituency through presentation and dialogue, and redesign incorporating the input received.
Publications
"The Dualities of Reinventing Space, Profile: Martha Schwartz, ASLA, Principal, Martha Schwartz Partners," by Leslie McGuire and Nicole Martin, Landscape Architect and Specifier News, March 2009.
Urban Spaces: Environments for the Future, by Jacobo Krauel, Links, 2009.
"Like Chocolate for Water – The Bagel Garden," Introduction to On Landscapes, by Susan Herrington, Routledge, 2009.
“Pop Art in de Tuin,” De Standaard Magazine, January 15, 2009.
“Everything Horizontal,” The Bulletin, January 15, 2009.
“Kunstmatig Land,” A+ Magazine, Dec/Jan 2009.
“Alsop and Schwartz Debate podcast,” Wallpaper, AJ, BDonline, December 2008.
“Outdoor Performance,” Garden Design, Nov/Dec 2008.
“Reykjavik Arts Festival - I Hate Nature,” Domus, October 2008.
“Design Showcase,” BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine, September 2008.
“Social Climbers,” RIBA Journal, September 2008.
“Grand Canal Square,” DeZeen, August 2008.
“Castleford Project - The Regeneration Game,” Channel 4 TV, May 2008.
“Opinion - We Can’t Assess the Success of our Castleford Scheme Instantaniously,” AJ, July 31, 2008.
“Kev’s Big Town Plan,” The Times, August 2, 2008.
“Take Me to the River,” RIBA Journal, June 2008.
“Lesterno dell’architettura,” loArchitetto, July 2008.
“The Castleford Project,” AJ, July 10, 2008.
“Urban Planning Needs Green Rethink,” Landscape Architecture, July 2008.
“Let’s Plant a Few Ideas,” The Times, May 7, 2008.
“Listen to your Martha,” Landscape+Urbanism, May 1, 2008.
“A Public Display,” Building, May 2008.
“St. Mary’s Churchyard in London,” Topos, Issue 63, May 2008.
“Gardens of the Mind,” The Telegraph, April 2008.
"Korisno je stvarati (It Is Useful to Create Beauty)," DaNS, No. 61, April 2008.
"Kente Yeni Renkler," XXI Turkey, No. 59, 2007.
Avant Gardners, by Tim Richardson, Thames & Hudson, 2007.
"Review of the Year," green places, Issue 41, Winter 2007.
"Taking it to the Next level: Newsmakers as Vanguards of the Profession," Landscape Architecture and Specifier News, Vol 23, No. 10, October 2007.
"Schluss mit naturlich," Plan, October 2007.
"Mesa Arts Center," Landscape World, Vol. 5, 2007.
"Mesa Arts Center" Paisajismo, No 14, June 2007.
"Highlights of the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting," Landscape Architecture, June 2007.
"Thats Grand," Mondo Arc, No. 37,2007.
"Klare Ordnung," Wirtschafts Woche, No. 20, May 14, 2007.
"A Peek at 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, January 2007.
"Portland Design Leads the Way for London Mall," by Scott Billings, Design Week, January 10, 2007.
"Martha Schwartz," Pollination by Woods Bagot, Metropolismag.com, 2006.
"Martha Schwartz on a phone," Metropolismag.com, November 8, 2006.
"Brief Encounter Martha Schwartz," RIBA Journal, September 2006.
"National Design Award Winners Announced." By Meaghan O'Neill, Interior Design Magazine. 14 June 2006 http://www.interiordesign.net/index.asp?layout=preview&articleID=CA6342810.
"Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of the Seventh Annual National Design Awards." Dexigner.com 12 June 2006 http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6528.
"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, The 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.
"Forward," The Lyrical Landscape, by Burle Marx, August 2001.
"Weeping Willow," UTE PA Bo01, August 2001.
"In the Public Realm," by Keith Franklin West, Charleston, May/June 2001.
"Avant-Garden," by Leslie Forbes, Gardens Illustrated, May 2001.
"Paul Lincke-Hoffe," Land Forum, #6.
"Public Domain," by Jenny Shears, Surface, April 2001.
"Garten der vier Jahreszeiten in Japan," Garten + Landschaft, April 2001.
"Kitagata Garden City," by Phoebe Chow, The Architectural Review, April 2001.
"Martha Schwartz - Exchange Square, Power Lines, Giardini Kitagata," edited by Francesco Repishti, Lotus Navigator, March 2001.
"Without Bells and Whistles," by Brenda Brown, Landscape Architecture, February 2001.
"Berlin Von Hinten," by Ulrich Timm, Haüser, January 2001.
"Facelift for the future - Barrick puts a new front on Geraldton," by John Martschuk, Coal Mining Journal, January 2001.
"Making Her Landscapes Pop," by Fred Bernstein, The New York Times, 21 December 2000.
"Martha Schwartz in Washington," by Nora Richter Greer, deArchitect, November 2000.
"Allegro con brio," Duzaúh, 2000.
"Workstation - Kitagata Apartment Reconstruction Project, the Courtyard Project, Gifu," Dialogue, September 2000.
"Grootschalige renovatie woningbouw in Gifu: Een opmerkelijk feministisch project in Japan," by Paula Meijerink, Groen, October 2000.
"Anything But Square," Fred Bernstein, The Sunday Review, September 2000.
"Manchester: 'Pudding-Stein' trifft Granit und Stahl," Topos, September 2000.
"Tipps & Trends Garten," by Uta Abendroth, Schöner Wohnen, June 2000.
"America's 10 Most Innovative Gardens," by Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper; New Eden, May/June 2000.
"What Martha Did in New Mexico," by Tim Richardson, New Eden, May/June 2000.
"Regenerating Landscapes," New Heritage, May 2000.
"Gärten Der Zukunft," by Viola Effmert, Architekt Wirtschaft Recht, May 2000.
"Gifu Kitagata Apartment," GA Japan, 5-6 (May, June) 2000.
"Gifu Kitagata Apartments Second Phase," Shinkenchiku:2000, May 2000.
"20th Century Inspirations," The Garden Design Journal, Early Spring 2000.
The Environment and Landscape Architecture of Korea, 2000 No. 5 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; Jacob Javits Plaza).
"The Davis Garden, El Paso, Texas," Landforum, No. 3 (2000).
"Exchange Rates," by Chris Young, Landlines, February 2000.
C3 Korea: 2000 No. 185 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; HUD Plaza, Washington, D.C.).
"Cement Gardens," by Elspeth Thompson, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 9 January 2000.
"Martha's Pop-Parks," by Alexander Hosch, Architectural Digest, December / January 1999 / 2000
C3 Korea: 2000 No. 185 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; HUD Plaza, Washington, D.C.).
1990s
Jacob Javitz Plaza in New York door Martha Schwartz," by Linette Widder, de Architect, November 1999
"Richiami Simbolici," by Gilberto Oneto, Ville Giardini, Octover 1999.
"Martha Schwartz Partners," Landscape Architect and Specifier News, September 1999.
"Dance of the Drumlins," Landscape Architecture, August, 1999.
"Rus in Urbe," The Architectural Review, July, 1999.
"Bunte Pop-Art-Gärden," by Katharina Sand, Bolero, June, 1999.
"Avant Garden," Liz Vannah, Munich Found, June, 1999.
"Fields of Fantasy," Monument, 29.
"Bezüge zur Unter(wasser)welt," by Thies Schröder, Garten + Landschaft, May 1999.
"Zwei Plazas von Martha Schwartz," by Gina Crandell, Garten + Landschaft, May 1999.
"Breuer haha," Wallpaper, April 1999.
"Public Art in Broward County: An Interview with Jean Grier," by Stanley Collyer, Competitions, Spring 1999.
"Il complesso residenziale di Kitagata, Gifu," by Arata Isozaki, Lotus 100.
"Mit Grünen Buckeln Gegen Langweile," Hauser, April, 1999.
"Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind," by Claudia Voigt, Kultur Spiegel, April, 1999.
"An Unconventional Artist," by Chris Young, Landscape Design, March 1999.
"An Interview with Martha Schwartz," by Heidi Kost-Gross, Perspectives in Landscape Design, Winter 1999.
"Die Pop-Gärtnerin," by Elke von Radziewsky, Architektur & Wohnen, January, 1999.
"Gardino Messicano," by Ada Maria Ornaghi, Abitare, August 1998.
"White Out," by Bradford McKee, Architecture, August 1998.
"Flying Saucers at HUD," by Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Post, June 6, 1998.
"The Battle for Pep-O-Mint Plaza," by Bradford McKea, Washington City Paper, May 22, 1998.
"Three Projects for Public Spaces in America," by Dean Cardasis, Domus, March 1998.
"Return to Spoleto," by Eleanor Heartney, Art in America, December 1997.
"Interview with Martha Schwartz and Jacques Simon," by Quim Rosell, 2G, 1997/III.
"The Grove as Pop Art: Martha Schwartz," by Lynnette Widder, Daidalos, September 1997.
"Miami Rhapsody," by Michael Webb, Metropolis, September 1997.
"Toward a New Living Environment: Gifu Kitagata Housing Project," Space and Design, August 1997.
"On the Subject of Human Nature," by Jane Brown Gillette, Landscape Architecture, August 1997.
"Avant Gardner," by Wendy Moonan, House & Garden, April 1997.
"Self Portrait," by Jane Brown Gillette, Landscape Architecture, February 1997.
"Serra to Schwartz," by Heidi Landecker, Architecture, January 1997.
"Que Serra, Serra," by Karrie Jacobs, New York, January 20, 1997.
Innovative Design Solutions in Landscape Architecture, by Steven L. Cantor, VanNostrand Reinhold, 1997.
Martha Schwartz: Transfiguration of the Commonplace, by Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Paradise Transformed - The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century, by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, Monacelli Press, 1996.
"Natura e Artefatto," by Isotta Cortesi, AREA, September/October 1996.
Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, by Udo Weilacher, Birkhauser Verlag, 1996.
Ortho's Guide to Creative Home Landscaping, Ortho Books, editors; Monsanto Company, 1996.
"The Haunting of Federal Plaza," by John Beardsley, Landscape Architecture.
"Miami Beach Comes of Age," by Raul A. Barreneche, Architecture, April 1996.
"Sculpting the Land," by John Beardsley, Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 4,1996.
"Imaginary Gardens With Real Frogs - Space in the Work of Martha Schwartz," by Dean Cardasis, GSD News, Winter/Spring 1996.
"Federal Buildings and Campuses," by Vernon Mays, Architecture, January 1996.
"Landschaftspark Messestadt Riem, Muenchen," Wettbewerbe Aktuell, 12/95.
"Landschaftspark Muenchen-Riem," by Horst Burger and Andrea Gebhard, Garten + Landschaft, December 1995.
"Peter Walker und Martha Schwartz," by Udo Weilacher, Die Gartenkunst, Vol. 7 No. 1, 1995.
"Face to Face - Martha Schwartz Partners," by Graham Vickers, World Architecture, Issue No. 36.
"A Crab for Baltimore?" by Andy Brown, Landscape Architecture, June 1994.
"Tile, Style and Landscape Architecture," by Carter Crawford, Landscape Design, April 1994.
"A Contemporary Approach to the Ageless Vistas of Santa Fe," by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Architectural Digest, December 1993.
"Bass Museum Expansion," Projects Section, Progressive Architecture, November 1993.
"Shaping a New American Landscape," by Yoshiko Kasuga, Pronto USA Magazine, Vol.10 No.9 1993.
"Urban Outfitter," by Myriam Weisang Misrach, Elle Magazine, September 1993.
"Jenseits von Arkadien: Sinnliches Puzzle," by Margit Suppan, WOHNEN, March 1993.
"Landscape & Common Culture Since Modernism," by Martha Schwartz, Architecture California, Vol. 14, No. 2, November 1992.
"Parc de la Citadelle," by Martha Schwartz, Pages Paysages #4, September 1992.
Piscines, by Sophie Roche-Soulie, Sophie Roulet. Publications du Moniteur, September 1992 (International Swim Hall of Fame).
"On the Edge in Sante Fe," by David Dillon, Garden Design, May/June 1992 (Dickenson Residence).
"Our Culture and the Art for Public Places," by Martha Schwartz, International IFLA Conference, Artivisual Landscapes, 1992.
"Five Views: One Landscape. A Journal of Experiment in Public Art," by Myra Mayman, Cathleen McCormick, Office for the Arts at Harvard & Radcliffe; 1992 (Radcliffe).
"Freeway Landmark," by Lynn Nesmith, Architecture, December 1991 (The Citadel).
"The Citadel Grand AllŽe, Honor Award," and "Becton Dickinson Atrium, Merit Award," Landscape Architecture, November 1991.
"Palaces and Pleasures," by Anne Raver, New York Times Magazine.
"A Cross Cultural Concert in the Far East," by Sally Woodbridge, Hiroshi Watanabe, Progressive Architecture, August 1991.
"Perspectives: Landscape Architecture," by Anne Whiston Spirn, Diana Balmori, Martha Schwartz; Progressive Architecture, August 1991.
"Becton Dickinson," by Monica Geran, Interior Design, August 1991.
The Japan Architect: 1991 #5 (Fukuoka).
"Landart," by Elsa Leviseur, The Architectural Review, April 1991.
Environmental Design, by Margaret Cottom-Winslow, published by PBC International, Inc.; 1991 (Whitehead Institute).
"Dali Meets Burpee," by Simon N. Dumenco, Special Report on Living, May-July 1990 (Whitehead Institute).
"Martha Schwartz: Consumption Landscape" by Marta Cervello, QUADERNS, No. 185, April-May-June 1990.
"Neue welle fürs Gartendesign," ("New Age Gardens") by Horst Rasch, HÄUSER, No. 6/1990, November 1990.
"Von Künstlern entworfen: Gärten der Zukunft?" by Elke von Radziewsky and Vera Graf, architektur & wohnen, No. 5/1990, October/November 1990.
"The Avant-Gardeners," by Deborah Papier, Avenue, June/July 1990.
"New American Landscapes," Dialogue, No. 4/1990, "Portfolio: The 'New Wave' in Landscaping," by Daralice D. Boles, Trends, Japan, No. 1990/2.
"Rhombus Room," by Deborah Papier, "A Convergence of 'Isms'," Landscape Architecture, January 1990.
"Kashii District Housing, Architectural Design Citation," Progressive Architecture, 1990.
1980s
"Rio Shopping Center, Merit Award" and "Turf Parterre, Merit Award," Landscape Architecture, November 1989.
"The Innovators," Newsweek, October 2, 1989.
"The Rebirth of the Garden," by Frances Anderton, The Architectural Review, September 1989.
"Look Both Ways," by Jim Murphy, "A Machine in the Forest," by Vernon Mays, Progressive Architecture, August 1989.
"P/A Profile, Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz," Progressive Architecture, July 1989.
"Turf Parterre Garden," The New Urban Landscape, Richard Martin, Editor; Olympia & York Companies, 1989.
"Martha Schwartz's 'Splice Garden': A Warning to a Brave New World," by Jory Johnson, Landscape Architecture, July/August 1988.
"American Landscape Architecture: Martha Schwartz," by Toru Mitani, SD Magazine, Japan, August 1988.
"Harmony in Design," by Julie Bondurant, Garden Design, Summer 1988.
"Transforming the American Garden," by Jean Feinberg, Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 1986 (also reviewed by Patricia Phillips, Art Forum Magazine, September 1986).
"Insight/On Site, Perspectives on Art in Public Places," edited by Stacy Paleologos Harris, published by Partners for Livable Places, Washington, D.C., 1985.
"Planting Plastic," by Paula Dietz, Home Design Section of the New York Times, September 22, 1985.
"Stella Schwartz Garden," by Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 1984.
"M.I.T. May-Day Garden," by Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 1982.
"Bagel Garden," Landscape Architecture Quarterly, January 1980.
Awards
With considerable talent and experience, MSP brings balance between
environmental practice and aesthetics to national and international
projects ranging in scale and scope from public plazas, parks, master plans,
reclamation, mixed-use developments to art commissions and private
residences. MSP is an award winning design firm receiving award recognition
from the Chicago Athenaeum for Best New Global Design 2007 for Leamouth
Peninsula and the 2007 ASLA Honor Award for Mesa Arts Center in Arizona,
USA. Other awards include the recent BALI Regeneration award for St. Mary’s
Churchyard, London, ULI Award for Excellence for Mesa Arts Center in 2006,
the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award 2006 and the Women in Design
Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects in 2004.
Exhibitions
2007 "Public City Exhibition 2007," New London Architecture, London, UK
2006 "The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation," Van Allen Institute, New York City, New York
2005 "Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2004 "Post-Modernism Revisited," German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 "Paradise Transformed," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
2003 "Asfalto: The Character of the City," Triennale di Milano; Milan, Italy
2001 "Together/Insieme", Museo Nazionale di Architecttura, 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 "Austin's 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, M.I.T.; Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art; Ohio Foundation of Arts
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Martha Schwartz
Biography
Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architect
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects, creating public realm spaces that engage with people, and build community through intelligent, focused, yet unexpected ideas-based design. Her background is in both fine arts and landscape architecture and is a Professor In Practice at The Harvard Graduate School of Design here she has taught since 1992.
Her mission is to explore the relationship between landscape, art and culture and challenge traditional concepts of landscape design; find opportunities where landscape design solutions can enhance the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of a place and raise them to a level of fine art; and make landscape design critical to the sustainability of our surroundings. Martha has over 29 years of experience as a landscape architect and artist collaborating with a variety of world-renowned architects on a diverse portfolio of projects. She holds a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of Ulster, and is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Cooper- Hewitt Museum National Design Award for her body of work in Landscape Architecture, an honorary fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects, several design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome of which she is a Fellow. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about the landscape with her work featuring widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions.
Lorraine Landels, Designer
Lorraine Landels is a principal of Martha Schwartz Partners and is responsible for developing client relationships. She has a background in fine arts and has 30 years experience as a designer. She has worked as project and strategy director on many prestigious projects in Europe, USA, the Far East and the Middle East. She is currently the Principal in Charge on major Master Plans in Qatar; a new development programme for the Children’s Project in Damascus, Syria; Leamouth Peninsula, London, UK; Edessa Town, Greece; Boulogne Seguin HQ, France; and Parc 1, Seoul, Korea. Lorraine is furthermore intrinsic to developing further collaborative potentials between Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, The Harvard Business School and the wider creative profession.
Philosophy
Martha Schwartz Partners was founded in 1990 to provide a full range of landscape design services conceived and executed at the highest artistic level possible. Over the years, our practice has evolved from providing landscape services primarily for private sector urban environments to large-scale public projects, land reclamation and planning studies on complex sites. Our landscape designs have received award-winning attention, and our work has been featured in numerous prominent publications. To create these innovative landscapes, our office explores the relationship between landscape, art, and culture, and challenges traditional concepts of landscape design. To implement our designs, we offer a full range of services including Landscape Design, Master Planning, Urban Regeneration, City Branding, Site Planning, Urban Design, Art Commissions, Public Realm and Consultancy. Currently, Martha Schwartz Partners has two offices – one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and the other in London, UK. Our two locations give us the flexibility of coordinating projects from either office with Martha Schwartz, as President, involved in directing both locations.
MSP believes landscape architecture lends a positive effect on the community by providing a healthy environment that engenders freedom of thought, creativity and curiosity. It is from those beliefs and values that our designs are realized. Over the years we have evolved with the environment and changing ideals of our society while remaining innovative and forward-thinking, staying true to our convictions that landscape design is critical to the health and sustainability of our surroundings. Our design philosophy emanates from a deep passion for exploring surrounding environments and pursuing quality over quantity. As we envision ourselves as a part of ‘nature’, aesthetics are a necessary component of environmentalism. The aesthetic quality, or design, of our environments will determine their success and relevance to our respective cultures. The aesthetic quality of our work begins at the preliminary concept and design development stage. Our energies are ignited at this stage as we feel strongly it is the concept, the vision shaped by our team and the client that collectively creates the path to excellence.
Our philosophy motivates us to conduct extensive research and develop flexible design frameworks that conceive developments as integrated with the surrounding community and the landscape and furthermore, it inspires us to bring total commitment, talent and time to each project. We take our cues and design inspiration from the site and social, economic and environmental context. We develop a range of design concepts and strategies, receive input from the client and its constituency through presentation and dialogue, and redesign incorporating the input received.
Publications
"The Dualities of Reinventing Space, Profile: Martha Schwartz, ASLA, Principal, Martha Schwartz Partners," by Leslie McGuire and Nicole Martin, Landscape Architect and Specifier News, March 2009.
Urban Spaces: Environments for the Future, by Jacobo Krauel, Links, 2009.
"Like Chocolate for Water – The Bagel Garden," Introduction to On Landscapes, by Susan Herrington, Routledge, 2009.
“Pop Art in de Tuin,” De Standaard Magazine, January 15, 2009.
“Everything Horizontal,” The Bulletin, January 15, 2009.
“Kunstmatig Land,” A+ Magazine, Dec/Jan 2009.
“Alsop and Schwartz Debate podcast,” Wallpaper, AJ, BDonline, December 2008.
“Outdoor Performance,” Garden Design, Nov/Dec 2008.
“Reykjavik Arts Festival - I Hate Nature,” Domus, October 2008.
“Design Showcase,” BBC Gardens Illustrated Magazine, September 2008.
“Social Climbers,” RIBA Journal, September 2008.
“Grand Canal Square,” DeZeen, August 2008.
“Castleford Project - The Regeneration Game,” Channel 4 TV, May 2008.
“Opinion - We Can’t Assess the Success of our Castleford Scheme Instantaniously,” AJ, July 31, 2008.
“Kev’s Big Town Plan,” The Times, August 2, 2008.
“Take Me to the River,” RIBA Journal, June 2008.
“Lesterno dell’architettura,” loArchitetto, July 2008.
“The Castleford Project,” AJ, July 10, 2008.
“Urban Planning Needs Green Rethink,” Landscape Architecture, July 2008.
“Let’s Plant a Few Ideas,” The Times, May 7, 2008.
“Listen to your Martha,” Landscape+Urbanism, May 1, 2008.
“A Public Display,” Building, May 2008.
“St. Mary’s Churchyard in London,” Topos, Issue 63, May 2008.
“Gardens of the Mind,” The Telegraph, April 2008.
"Korisno je stvarati (It Is Useful to Create Beauty)," DaNS, No. 61, April 2008.
"Kente Yeni Renkler," XXI Turkey, No. 59, 2007.
Avant Gardners, by Tim Richardson, Thames & Hudson, 2007.
"Review of the Year," green places, Issue 41, Winter 2007.
"Taking it to the Next level: Newsmakers as Vanguards of the Profession," Landscape Architecture and Specifier News, Vol 23, No. 10, October 2007.
"Schluss mit naturlich," Plan, October 2007.
"Mesa Arts Center," Landscape World, Vol. 5, 2007.
"Mesa Arts Center" Paisajismo, No 14, June 2007.
"Highlights of the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting," Landscape Architecture, June 2007.
"Thats Grand," Mondo Arc, No. 37,2007.
"Klare Ordnung," Wirtschafts Woche, No. 20, May 14, 2007.
"A Peek at 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, January 2007.
"Portland Design Leads the Way for London Mall," by Scott Billings, Design Week, January 10, 2007.
"Martha Schwartz," Pollination by Woods Bagot, Metropolismag.com, 2006.
"Martha Schwartz on a phone," Metropolismag.com, November 8, 2006.
"Brief Encounter Martha Schwartz," RIBA Journal, September 2006.
"National Design Award Winners Announced." By Meaghan O'Neill, Interior Design Magazine. 14 June 2006 http://www.interiordesign.net/index.asp?layout=preview&articleID=CA6342810.
"Cooper-Hewitt Announces Winners of the Seventh Annual National Design Awards." Dexigner.com 12 June 2006 http://www.dexigner.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6528.
"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, The 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.
"Forward," The Lyrical Landscape, by Burle Marx, August 2001.
"Weeping Willow," UTE PA Bo01, August 2001.
"In the Public Realm," by Keith Franklin West, Charleston, May/June 2001.
"Avant-Garden," by Leslie Forbes, Gardens Illustrated, May 2001.
"Paul Lincke-Hoffe," Land Forum, #6.
"Public Domain," by Jenny Shears, Surface, April 2001.
"Garten der vier Jahreszeiten in Japan," Garten + Landschaft, April 2001.
"Kitagata Garden City," by Phoebe Chow, The Architectural Review, April 2001.
"Martha Schwartz - Exchange Square, Power Lines, Giardini Kitagata," edited by Francesco Repishti, Lotus Navigator, March 2001.
"Without Bells and Whistles," by Brenda Brown, Landscape Architecture, February 2001.
"Berlin Von Hinten," by Ulrich Timm, Haüser, January 2001.
"Facelift for the future - Barrick puts a new front on Geraldton," by John Martschuk, Coal Mining Journal, January 2001.
"Making Her Landscapes Pop," by Fred Bernstein, The New York Times, 21 December 2000.
"Martha Schwartz in Washington," by Nora Richter Greer, deArchitect, November 2000.
"Allegro con brio," Duzaúh, 2000.
"Workstation - Kitagata Apartment Reconstruction Project, the Courtyard Project, Gifu," Dialogue, September 2000.
"Grootschalige renovatie woningbouw in Gifu: Een opmerkelijk feministisch project in Japan," by Paula Meijerink, Groen, October 2000.
"Anything But Square," Fred Bernstein, The Sunday Review, September 2000.
"Manchester: 'Pudding-Stein' trifft Granit und Stahl," Topos, September 2000.
"Tipps & Trends Garten," by Uta Abendroth, Schöner Wohnen, June 2000.
"America's 10 Most Innovative Gardens," by Gordon Taylor and Guy Cooper; New Eden, May/June 2000.
"What Martha Did in New Mexico," by Tim Richardson, New Eden, May/June 2000.
"Regenerating Landscapes," New Heritage, May 2000.
"Gärten Der Zukunft," by Viola Effmert, Architekt Wirtschaft Recht, May 2000.
"Gifu Kitagata Apartment," GA Japan, 5-6 (May, June) 2000.
"Gifu Kitagata Apartments Second Phase," Shinkenchiku:2000, May 2000.
"20th Century Inspirations," The Garden Design Journal, Early Spring 2000.
The Environment and Landscape Architecture of Korea, 2000 No. 5 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; Jacob Javits Plaza).
"The Davis Garden, El Paso, Texas," Landforum, No. 3 (2000).
"Exchange Rates," by Chris Young, Landlines, February 2000.
C3 Korea: 2000 No. 185 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; HUD Plaza, Washington, D.C.).
"Cement Gardens," by Elspeth Thompson, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 9 January 2000.
"Martha's Pop-Parks," by Alexander Hosch, Architectural Digest, December / January 1999 / 2000
C3 Korea: 2000 No. 185 (United States Courthouse Plaza, Minneapolis; HUD Plaza, Washington, D.C.).
1990s
Jacob Javitz Plaza in New York door Martha Schwartz," by Linette Widder, de Architect, November 1999
"Richiami Simbolici," by Gilberto Oneto, Ville Giardini, Octover 1999.
"Martha Schwartz Partners," Landscape Architect and Specifier News, September 1999.
"Dance of the Drumlins," Landscape Architecture, August, 1999.
"Rus in Urbe," The Architectural Review, July, 1999.
"Bunte Pop-Art-Gärden," by Katharina Sand, Bolero, June, 1999.
"Avant Garden," Liz Vannah, Munich Found, June, 1999.
"Fields of Fantasy," Monument, 29.
"Bezüge zur Unter(wasser)welt," by Thies Schröder, Garten + Landschaft, May 1999.
"Zwei Plazas von Martha Schwartz," by Gina Crandell, Garten + Landschaft, May 1999.
"Breuer haha," Wallpaper, April 1999.
"Public Art in Broward County: An Interview with Jean Grier," by Stanley Collyer, Competitions, Spring 1999.
"Il complesso residenziale di Kitagata, Gifu," by Arata Isozaki, Lotus 100.
"Mit Grünen Buckeln Gegen Langweile," Hauser, April, 1999.
"Sag mir, wo die Blumen sind," by Claudia Voigt, Kultur Spiegel, April, 1999.
"An Unconventional Artist," by Chris Young, Landscape Design, March 1999.
"An Interview with Martha Schwartz," by Heidi Kost-Gross, Perspectives in Landscape Design, Winter 1999.
"Die Pop-Gärtnerin," by Elke von Radziewsky, Architektur & Wohnen, January, 1999.
"Gardino Messicano," by Ada Maria Ornaghi, Abitare, August 1998.
"White Out," by Bradford McKee, Architecture, August 1998.
"Flying Saucers at HUD," by Benjamin Forgey, The Washington Post, June 6, 1998.
"The Battle for Pep-O-Mint Plaza," by Bradford McKea, Washington City Paper, May 22, 1998.
"Three Projects for Public Spaces in America," by Dean Cardasis, Domus, March 1998.
"Return to Spoleto," by Eleanor Heartney, Art in America, December 1997.
"Interview with Martha Schwartz and Jacques Simon," by Quim Rosell, 2G, 1997/III.
"The Grove as Pop Art: Martha Schwartz," by Lynnette Widder, Daidalos, September 1997.
"Miami Rhapsody," by Michael Webb, Metropolis, September 1997.
"Toward a New Living Environment: Gifu Kitagata Housing Project," Space and Design, August 1997.
"On the Subject of Human Nature," by Jane Brown Gillette, Landscape Architecture, August 1997.
"Avant Gardner," by Wendy Moonan, House & Garden, April 1997.
"Self Portrait," by Jane Brown Gillette, Landscape Architecture, February 1997.
"Serra to Schwartz," by Heidi Landecker, Architecture, January 1997.
"Que Serra, Serra," by Karrie Jacobs, New York, January 20, 1997.
Innovative Design Solutions in Landscape Architecture, by Steven L. Cantor, VanNostrand Reinhold, 1997.
Martha Schwartz: Transfiguration of the Commonplace, by Spacemaker Press, 1997.
Paradise Transformed - The Private Garden for the Twenty-First Century, by Guy Cooper and Gordon Taylor, Monacelli Press, 1996.
"Natura e Artefatto," by Isotta Cortesi, AREA, September/October 1996.
Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art, by Udo Weilacher, Birkhauser Verlag, 1996.
Ortho's Guide to Creative Home Landscaping, Ortho Books, editors; Monsanto Company, 1996.
"The Haunting of Federal Plaza," by John Beardsley, Landscape Architecture.
"Miami Beach Comes of Age," by Raul A. Barreneche, Architecture, April 1996.
"Sculpting the Land," by John Beardsley, Sculpture, Vol. 15, No. 4,1996.
"Imaginary Gardens With Real Frogs - Space in the Work of Martha Schwartz," by Dean Cardasis, GSD News, Winter/Spring 1996.
"Federal Buildings and Campuses," by Vernon Mays, Architecture, January 1996.
"Landschaftspark Messestadt Riem, Muenchen," Wettbewerbe Aktuell, 12/95.
"Landschaftspark Muenchen-Riem," by Horst Burger and Andrea Gebhard, Garten + Landschaft, December 1995.
"Peter Walker und Martha Schwartz," by Udo Weilacher, Die Gartenkunst, Vol. 7 No. 1, 1995.
"Face to Face - Martha Schwartz Partners," by Graham Vickers, World Architecture, Issue No. 36.
"A Crab for Baltimore?" by Andy Brown, Landscape Architecture, June 1994.
"Tile, Style and Landscape Architecture," by Carter Crawford, Landscape Design, April 1994.
"A Contemporary Approach to the Ageless Vistas of Santa Fe," by Verlyn Klinkenborg, Architectural Digest, December 1993.
"Bass Museum Expansion," Projects Section, Progressive Architecture, November 1993.
"Shaping a New American Landscape," by Yoshiko Kasuga, Pronto USA Magazine, Vol.10 No.9 1993.
"Urban Outfitter," by Myriam Weisang Misrach, Elle Magazine, September 1993.
"Jenseits von Arkadien: Sinnliches Puzzle," by Margit Suppan, WOHNEN, March 1993.
"Landscape & Common Culture Since Modernism," by Martha Schwartz, Architecture California, Vol. 14, No. 2, November 1992.
"Parc de la Citadelle," by Martha Schwartz, Pages Paysages #4, September 1992.
Piscines, by Sophie Roche-Soulie, Sophie Roulet. Publications du Moniteur, September 1992 (International Swim Hall of Fame).
"On the Edge in Sante Fe," by David Dillon, Garden Design, May/June 1992 (Dickenson Residence).
"Our Culture and the Art for Public Places," by Martha Schwartz, International IFLA Conference, Artivisual Landscapes, 1992.
"Five Views: One Landscape. A Journal of Experiment in Public Art," by Myra Mayman, Cathleen McCormick, Office for the Arts at Harvard & Radcliffe; 1992 (Radcliffe).
"Freeway Landmark," by Lynn Nesmith, Architecture, December 1991 (The Citadel).
"The Citadel Grand AllŽe, Honor Award," and "Becton Dickinson Atrium, Merit Award," Landscape Architecture, November 1991.
"Palaces and Pleasures," by Anne Raver, New York Times Magazine.
"A Cross Cultural Concert in the Far East," by Sally Woodbridge, Hiroshi Watanabe, Progressive Architecture, August 1991.
"Perspectives: Landscape Architecture," by Anne Whiston Spirn, Diana Balmori, Martha Schwartz; Progressive Architecture, August 1991.
"Becton Dickinson," by Monica Geran, Interior Design, August 1991.
The Japan Architect: 1991 #5 (Fukuoka).
"Landart," by Elsa Leviseur, The Architectural Review, April 1991.
Environmental Design, by Margaret Cottom-Winslow, published by PBC International, Inc.; 1991 (Whitehead Institute).
"Dali Meets Burpee," by Simon N. Dumenco, Special Report on Living, May-July 1990 (Whitehead Institute).
"Martha Schwartz: Consumption Landscape" by Marta Cervello, QUADERNS, No. 185, April-May-June 1990.
"Neue welle fürs Gartendesign," ("New Age Gardens") by Horst Rasch, HÄUSER, No. 6/1990, November 1990.
"Von Künstlern entworfen: Gärten der Zukunft?" by Elke von Radziewsky and Vera Graf, architektur & wohnen, No. 5/1990, October/November 1990.
"The Avant-Gardeners," by Deborah Papier, Avenue, June/July 1990.
"New American Landscapes," Dialogue, No. 4/1990, "Portfolio: The 'New Wave' in Landscaping," by Daralice D. Boles, Trends, Japan, No. 1990/2.
"Rhombus Room," by Deborah Papier, "A Convergence of 'Isms'," Landscape Architecture, January 1990.
"Kashii District Housing, Architectural Design Citation," Progressive Architecture, 1990.
1980s
"Rio Shopping Center, Merit Award" and "Turf Parterre, Merit Award," Landscape Architecture, November 1989.
"The Innovators," Newsweek, October 2, 1989.
"The Rebirth of the Garden," by Frances Anderton, The Architectural Review, September 1989.
"Look Both Ways," by Jim Murphy, "A Machine in the Forest," by Vernon Mays, Progressive Architecture, August 1989.
"P/A Profile, Peter Walker and Martha Schwartz," Progressive Architecture, July 1989.
"Turf Parterre Garden," The New Urban Landscape, Richard Martin, Editor; Olympia & York Companies, 1989.
"Martha Schwartz's 'Splice Garden': A Warning to a Brave New World," by Jory Johnson, Landscape Architecture, July/August 1988.
"American Landscape Architecture: Martha Schwartz," by Toru Mitani, SD Magazine, Japan, August 1988.
"Harmony in Design," by Julie Bondurant, Garden Design, Summer 1988.
"Transforming the American Garden," by Jean Feinberg, Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 1986 (also reviewed by Patricia Phillips, Art Forum Magazine, September 1986).
"Insight/On Site, Perspectives on Art in Public Places," edited by Stacy Paleologos Harris, published by Partners for Livable Places, Washington, D.C., 1985.
"Planting Plastic," by Paula Dietz, Home Design Section of the New York Times, September 22, 1985.
"Stella Schwartz Garden," by Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 1984.
"M.I.T. May-Day Garden," by Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architecture Magazine, May 1982.
"Bagel Garden," Landscape Architecture Quarterly, January 1980.
Awards
With considerable talent and experience, MSP brings balance between
environmental practice and aesthetics to national and international
projects ranging in scale and scope from public plazas, parks, master plans,
reclamation, mixed-use developments to art commissions and private
residences. MSP is an award winning design firm receiving award recognition
from the Chicago Athenaeum for Best New Global Design 2007 for Leamouth
Peninsula and the 2007 ASLA Honor Award for Mesa Arts Center in Arizona,
USA. Other awards include the recent BALI Regeneration award for St. Mary’s
Churchyard, London, ULI Award for Excellence for Mesa Arts Center in 2006,
the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award 2006 and the Women in Design
Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects in 2004.
Exhibitions
2007 "Public City Exhibition 2007," New London Architecture, London, UK
2006 "The Good Life: New Public Spaces for Recreation," Van Allen Institute, New York City, New York
2005 "Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape," Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2004 "Post-Modernism Revisited," German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 "Paradise Transformed," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
2003 "Asfalto: The Character of the City," Triennale di Milano; Milan, Italy
2001 "Together/Insieme", Museo Nazionale di Architecttura, 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 "Austin's 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, M.I.T.; Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art; Ohio Foundation of Arts
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