Michael Van Valkenburgh
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Michael R. Van Valkenburgh (born 1951) is an American landscape architect
and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Korea, and France including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, city courtyards, corporate landscapes, and private gardens
, where his family owned a small dairy farm. Van Valkenburgh received a Bachelor of Science
from the College of Agriculture at Cornell University
in 1973, studied photography at the Boston Museum School from 1974–75, and earned a Master of Landscape Architecture
from the College of Fine Arts at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
in 1977. In 1979, he started teaching in the Landscape Architecture department at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He worked at Carr, Lynch, Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, MA from 1979 until 1982, when he founded his own firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. In the early years of his practice, Van Valkenburgh worked with seasonally dynamic hedge gardens and ice walls. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
which allowed him to experiment with ice as a material in landscape design. In 1988, Van Valkenburgh received the Rome Prize
from the American Academy in Rome
.
at Harvard University
. His career at the GSD began in 1982, he was program director from 1987–1989, and was the Chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture
from 1991-1996.
, Van Valkenburgh's work demonstrates "that the knowledge of a place derives more deeply through experience of material, time, and event, than through visuality alone, and that landscape experience is fuller and more profound when it accrues through inhabitation than through the immediacy of the image or the objectification of the new."
M. Van Valkenburgh was influenced by his youth in an agricultural setting and his education at Cornell University during the 1970's, particularly the ground-breaking book Design with Nature, written by Ian McHarg
. This book explains the ecological movement of man made landscapes becoming a fusion of nature as art and conscience. Van Valkenburgh has been acknowledged for his ability to successfully integrate new methods of sustainable design and ecological renewal into the experience of the places he designs, making sustainability part of the beauty of a place that educates visitors and raises environmental awareness.
He frequently credits artist Robert Smithson's writings on Frederick Law Olmsted and the "landscape dialectic" as a source of inspiration. Van Valkenburgh's landscapes are sometimes completely original explorations of naturalism and the constructed urban landscape, for instance at Teardrop Park
, or Brooklyn Bridge Park
, but he has also completed many sensitive historic landscape restorations including Harvard Yard
, Marion Square Park in Charleston, South Carolina, and several works at Wellesley College. According to noted landscape theorist Anita Berrizbeitia
, in her introduction to a book of essays on the work of MVVA, "His parks and public open spaces are based on the conviction that not only can the power of nature and the power of the man-made coexist, but they are the better for doing so."
. The company is a successful Landscape Architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and Brooklyn, New York. Since the company was founded it has completed a broad range of landscape design, construction, and restoration projects in both the public and private realms. To date, MVVA has completed over 350 projects and has won numerous national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects
. MVVA is known for their knowledge concerning issues of sustainability
, challenges of soil toxicity, and maintaining the integrity of a designs history and context. The firm also collaborates frequently with artists. M. Van Valkenburgh and MVVA have won many national awards for their designs.
Some of these awards include:
and won the National Design Award in Environmental Design by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. M. Van Valkenburgh was thanked by Mrs. Laura Bush for his design for the renovation of Pennsylvania Avenue
in November 2004. In 2007 Michael Van Valkenburgh was asked to present the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture Margaret O. Cekada Memorial Lecture. In 2010, he was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and letters, for contributions to architecture as an art. Also in 2011, Van Valkenburgh was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize (annual prize given to work of art that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City) for the design of Brooklyn Bridge Park from the Municipal Arts Society of New York City.
M. Van Valkenburgh, A. S. MacLean, J. Corner
Stephen Stimson Associates
M. Van Valkenburgh, J. Amidon, J. Trulove, C. Mayer
Rockport Publishers; 2002
in: Space design M. Schwartz, P. Walker, G. Hargreaves, M. Van Valkenburgh, S. R. Frey, S. Miyagi
in: House & Garden M. Van Valkenburgh, C. D. Van Valkenburgh
in: Design quarterly, M. Van Valkenburgh
J. Gilette, Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 1998
A. Blum, Metropolis, March 2006
M. Van Valkenburgh, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 1984
M. Van Valkenburgh, with essays by Peter Rose, Will Miller, James Corner, Paula Deitz, John Beardsley, and Mildred Friedman, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994
J. Amidon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
C. Werthmann, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
A. Berrizbeitia, with essays by Jane Amidon, Ethan Carr, Rachel Gleeson, Linda Pollak, Erik de Jong, Andrew Blum, Elissa Rosenberg, Peter Fergusson, forward by Paul Goldberger, Yale University Press, 2009
in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, National Park Service, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2010, M. Van Valkenburgh
Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person involved in the planning, design and sometimes direction of a landscape, garden, or distinct space. The professional practice is known as landscape architecture....
and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Korea, and France including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, city courtyards, corporate landscapes, and private gardens
Early Years and Schooling
Michael Van Valkenburgh was born in 1951 and grew up in Lexington, New YorkLexington, New York
Lexington is a town in Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 805 at the 2010 census.The Town of Lexington is in the southwest part of Greene County.- History :The town was first settled around 1788....
, where his family owned a small dairy farm. Van Valkenburgh received a Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
from the College of Agriculture at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
in 1973, studied photography at the Boston Museum School from 1974–75, and earned a Master of Landscape Architecture
Master of Landscape Architecture
The Master of Landscape Architecture is a professional and academic degree dealing with the manipulation of outdoor and public spaces to achieve socio-behavioural, environmental, and/or aesthetic outcomes.-Curriculum and Requirements:...
from the College of Fine Arts at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
in 1977. In 1979, he started teaching in the Landscape Architecture department at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He worked at Carr, Lynch, Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, MA from 1979 until 1982, when he founded his own firm, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. In the early years of his practice, Van Valkenburgh worked with seasonally dynamic hedge gardens and ice walls. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
which allowed him to experiment with ice as a material in landscape design. In 1988, Van Valkenburgh received the Rome Prize
Rome Prize
The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists and to 15 scholars The Rome Prize is an American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists...
from the American Academy in Rome
American Academy in Rome
The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo in Rome.- History :In 1893, a group of American architects, painters and sculptors met regularly while planning the fine arts section of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition...
.
Teaching career
Michael Van Valkenburgh is the Charles Eliot Professor of Practice at the Graduate School of DesignHarvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design.-History:...
at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. His career at the GSD began in 1982, he was program director from 1987–1989, and was the Chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
from 1991-1996.
Design Approach and Inspiration
Michael Van Valkenburgh describes his work as an exploration of the living qualities of the landscape medium and an attempt to emancipate landscape architecture from a stylistically-based relationship to architecture. His designs are based in an appreciation of the particular qualities of each specific site and thus do not necessarily resemble one another with respect to form, details, or imagery. According to fellow landscape architect James CornerJames Corner
James Corner is a Landscape Architect and theorist with numerous works to his credit which explore the contemporary meaning of architectural landscaping, with a focus on "developing innovative approaches toward landscape architectural design and urbanism." His designs of note include Fresh Kills...
, Van Valkenburgh's work demonstrates "that the knowledge of a place derives more deeply through experience of material, time, and event, than through visuality alone, and that landscape experience is fuller and more profound when it accrues through inhabitation than through the immediacy of the image or the objectification of the new."
M. Van Valkenburgh was influenced by his youth in an agricultural setting and his education at Cornell University during the 1970's, particularly the ground-breaking book Design with Nature, written by Ian McHarg
Ian McHarg
Ian L. McHarg was born in Clydebank, Scotland and became a landscape architect and a renowned writer on regional planning using natural systems. He was the founder of the department of landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. His 1969 book Design with Nature...
. This book explains the ecological movement of man made landscapes becoming a fusion of nature as art and conscience. Van Valkenburgh has been acknowledged for his ability to successfully integrate new methods of sustainable design and ecological renewal into the experience of the places he designs, making sustainability part of the beauty of a place that educates visitors and raises environmental awareness.
He frequently credits artist Robert Smithson's writings on Frederick Law Olmsted and the "landscape dialectic" as a source of inspiration. Van Valkenburgh's landscapes are sometimes completely original explorations of naturalism and the constructed urban landscape, for instance at Teardrop Park
Teardrop Park
Teardrop Park is a public park in downtown Manhattan, in Battery Park City near to the site of the World Trade Center. It was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a New York City architectural landscaping firm...
, or Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an park currently under construction on the Brooklyn waterfront in the vicinity of the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. As of March 22, 2010 the first newly built section of the park, Pier 1, has been open to the public...
, but he has also completed many sensitive historic landscape restorations including Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard
Harvard Yard is a grassy area of about , adjacent to Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that constitutes the oldest part and the center of the campus of Harvard University...
, Marion Square Park in Charleston, South Carolina, and several works at Wellesley College. According to noted landscape theorist Anita Berrizbeitia
Anita Berrizbeitia
Anita de la Rosa de Berrizbeitia is an internationally recognized landscape theorist, teacher, and author. She continues to play an integral role in the renewed visibility of landscape architecture as a cultural practice. In studying the many forms of hybridity involved in place making, her work...
, in her introduction to a book of essays on the work of MVVA, "His parks and public open spaces are based on the conviction that not only can the power of nature and the power of the man-made coexist, but they are the better for doing so."
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.
Michael Van Valkenburgh founded Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. (MVVA) in 1982. He currently leads the firm with his two fellow principals, Laura Solano and Matthew UrbanskiMatthew Urbanski
Matthew Louis Urbanski is an American landscape architect. He has planned and designed landscapes in the United States, Canada, and France, including waterfronts, parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, and private gardens...
. The company is a successful Landscape Architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
and Brooklyn, New York. Since the company was founded it has completed a broad range of landscape design, construction, and restoration projects in both the public and private realms. To date, MVVA has completed over 350 projects and has won numerous national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects
American Society of Landscape Architects
The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects, with more than 17,000 members in 48 chapters, representing all 50 states, U.S. territories, and 42 countries around the world, plus 68 student chapters...
. MVVA is known for their knowledge concerning issues of sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
, challenges of soil toxicity, and maintaining the integrity of a designs history and context. The firm also collaborates frequently with artists. M. Van Valkenburgh and MVVA have won many national awards for their designs.
Some of these awards include:
- Honor Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects for Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana, 1993
- Design Merit Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
for the Vera List Courtyard at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1998 - Planning and Analysis Merit Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 1999 - Citation from Progressive Architecture for Allegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront Park is a small municipal park along the south bank of the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Cultural District...
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2002 - Design Merit Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002 - Places Magazine/EDRA Place Design Award, Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002
- Design Merit Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, Spider Island, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glenncoe, IL, 2002 - Environmental Design Award, National Design Awards, Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, 2003
- Design Merit Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for the Garden on Turtle Creek, Dallas, TX 2004 - Juror, for World Trade Center Memorial Competition 2004
- Design Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for the Herman Miller Factory Landscape, Cherokee County, GA 2005 - Design Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Tahari Courtyards, Millburn, NJ, 2006 - Design Excellence Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Alumnae Valley at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 2006 - Design Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Boston Children Museum's Entry Plaza, 2008 - Special Jury Award for Sustainable Development from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Urban Design Awards for the Lower Don Lands Project in Toronto, ON, 2008
- Analysis and Planning Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for the Lower Don Lands Project in Toronto, ON, 2008 - Design Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Teardrop Park in New York, NY, 2009 - Analysis and Planning Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, for Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, NY 2009 - National Park Service “Designing the Parks” Honor Award for Teardrop Park, New York, NY, 2010
- National Park Service “Designing the Parks” Honor Award for Brooklyn Bridge Park 2005 Master Plan, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
- Design Honor Award, ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
, Connecticut Water Treatment Plant Landscape, New Haven, CT, 2010
Recent Information
Today Michael Van Valkenburgh is continuing the legacy through his design and his teaching. He has a National Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board certification and is a registered Landscape Architect in twenty different states. He currently listed as a potential designer for the National Museum of Gardens. In 2003, Van Valkenburgh served on the selection jury of the World Trade Center Site Memorial CompetitionWorld Trade Center Site Memorial Competition
The World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was an open, international memorial contest, initiated by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation , as per the specifications of architect Daniel Libeskind, to design a World Trade Center Site Memorial on a portion of the World Trade Center site...
and won the National Design Award in Environmental Design by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. M. Van Valkenburgh was thanked by Mrs. Laura Bush for his design for the renovation of Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. that joins the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street", it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches...
in November 2004. In 2007 Michael Van Valkenburgh was asked to present the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture Margaret O. Cekada Memorial Lecture. In 2010, he was awarded the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and letters, for contributions to architecture as an art. Also in 2011, Van Valkenburgh was awarded the Brendan Gill Prize (annual prize given to work of art that best captures the spirit and energy of New York City) for the design of Brooklyn Bridge Park from the Municipal Arts Society of New York City.
Publications
- Taking Measures Across the American Landscape
M. Van Valkenburgh, A. S. MacLean, J. Corner
- Ten Landscapes
Stephen Stimson Associates
M. Van Valkenburgh, J. Amidon, J. Trulove, C. Mayer
Rockport Publishers; 2002
- American landscape architecture
in: Space design M. Schwartz, P. Walker, G. Hargreaves, M. Van Valkenburgh, S. R. Frey, S. Miyagi
- Best laid plan: Gertrude Jekyll's brilliant planting and Edwin Lutyen's architectural mastery make Hestercombe a superb example of collaborative garden design
in: House & Garden M. Van Valkenburgh, C. D. Van Valkenburgh
- The Flower gardens of Gertrude Jekyll and their twentieth-century transformations
in: Design quarterly, M. Van Valkenburgh
- Michael
J. Gilette, Landscape Architecture Magazine, February 1998
- The Active Edge
A. Blum, Metropolis, March 2006
- Built Landscapes: Gardens in the Northeast
M. Van Valkenburgh, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 1984
- Design with the Land: Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh
M. Van Valkenburgh, with essays by Peter Rose, Will Miller, James Corner, Paula Deitz, John Beardsley, and Mildred Friedman, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994
- Michael Van Valkenburgh/Allegheny Riverfront Park: Source Books in Landscape Architecture
J. Amidon, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
- Green Roof - A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates' Design for the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects
C. Werthmann, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
- Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes
A. Berrizbeitia, with essays by Jane Amidon, Ethan Carr, Rachel Gleeson, Linda Pollak, Erik de Jong, Andrew Blum, Elissa Rosenberg, Peter Fergusson, forward by Paul Goldberger, Yale University Press, 2009
- Built Landscapes, Ecologies and Re-defining "Preservation"
in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, National Park Service, Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 2010, M. Van Valkenburgh
Notable works
A list of notable works by Michael Van Valkenburgh and his company Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, with their completion dates follows:- Regis Garden, Walker Art CenterWalker Art CenterThe Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
, Minneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...
, 1988 - Radcliffe Ice Walls, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1988
- Garden on Lake Minnetonka, Wayzata Minnesota, 1989
- Krakow Ice Garden, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, 1990
- Pucker Garden, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1990
- General MillsGeneral MillsGeneral Mills, Inc. is an American Fortune 500 corporation, primarily concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. The company markets many well-known brands, such as Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Colombo, Totinos, Jeno's, Pillsbury, Green...
Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, 1991 (destroyed 2000) - Redesign of The Jardin Des Tuileries, Paris, France, 1991
- Mill Race Park, Columbus, IndianaColumbus, IndianaColumbus is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States. The population was 44,061 at the 2010 census, and the current mayor is Fred Armstrong. Located approximately 40 miles south of Indianapolis, on the east fork of the White River, it is the state's 20th largest...
, 1993 - 50 Avenue Montaigne Courtyard, Paris, France, 1993
- Oakville Park Completion, Oakville, OntarioOakville, OntarioOakville is a town in Halton Region, on Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area. As of the 2006 census the population was 165,613.-History:In 1793, Dundas Street was surveyed for a military road...
, Canada, 1993 - Ho-Am Art Museum and Sculpture Garden, SeoulSeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South KoreaSouth KoreaThe Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
, 1993 - Vera List Courtyard, New School University, New York, New York 1997
- Allegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront Park is a small municipal park along the south bank of the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Cultural District...
, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PennsylvaniaPittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, 1998 - Garden on Turtle CreekTurtle Creek (Dallas County, Texas)Turtle Creek is the name of small tributary of the Trinity River with headwaters in north Dallas, Texas . It generally runs southwest through north Dallas, passing through Highland Park , then back into Dallas through the Oak Lawn community and Turtle Creek neighborhood alongside Turtle Creek...
, Dallas, TexasDallas, TexasDallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, 1999 - Spider Island, Chicago Botanic GardenChicago Botanic GardenLocated at 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, Illinois, USA, the Chicago Botanic Garden is a living plant museum situated on nine islands featuring 24 display gardens and surrounded by four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shores. The Garden is open...
, Glencoe, Illinois, 2000 - Herman Miller Factory Landscape, Cherokee County, Georgia, 2001
- Marion Square Park, Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston, South CarolinaCharleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...
, 2002 - Straightsview Farm, San Juan Island, Washington, 2003
- Harvard Yard Restoration, Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003 - Peabody Essex MuseumPeabody Essex MuseumThe Peabody Essex Museum , originally the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Essex Institute, in Salem, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously operating museum in the United States, and holds one of the major collections of Asian art in the US; its total holdings include about 1.3 million pieces, as...
, Salem, Massachusetts, 2003 - Tahari Courtyards, Millburn, New JerseyMillburn, New JerseyMillburn is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 20,149.Millburn Township was created as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 20, 1857, from portions of Springfield Township.Millburn also...
, 2003 - Kraus Campo, Carnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon UniversityCarnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....
, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2003 - Renovation of Pennsylvania AvenuePennsylvania AvenuePennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. that joins the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street", it is the location of official parades and processions, as well as protest marches...
at the White HouseWhite HouseThe White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
, Washington DC, 2004 - Nomentana Garden, Stoneham, Maine, 2005
- Alumnae Valley, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 2005
- Lake Whitney Water Treatment Plant, New Haven, Connecticut, 2005
- Teardrop ParkTeardrop ParkTeardrop Park is a public park in downtown Manhattan, in Battery Park City near to the site of the World Trade Center. It was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a New York City architectural landscaping firm...
in Battery Park City, New York NY, 2006 - Bailey Plaza, Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, Ithaca, New York, 2007 - Smith Family Waterfront Park, Boston Children's MuseumBoston Children's MuseumBoston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the United States...
, Boston, Massachusetts, 2007 - Union Square Park, North End Plaza and Playground, New York, NY, 2010
- Segment 5 (Piers 62-64), Hudson River Park, New York, NY, 2010
- Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
- BJC Institute of Health Plaza (with Maya Lin), Washington University, St Louis, MO, 2010
- Pier 6 Playground, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY 2010
- Teardrop Park South, New York, NY, 2010
Competition Wins
- Pennsylvania Avenue at the White House, Washington, DC, 2002 (completed)
- Lower Don Lands Design Competition, Port Lands Estuary, Toronto, ON, 2007, (in progress)
- The City + The Arch + The River Competition, Jefferson National Expansion MemorialJefferson National Expansion MemorialThe Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is in St. Louis, Missouri, near the starting point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It was designated as a National Memorial by Executive Order 7523, on December 21, 1935, and is maintained by the National Park Service .The park was established to...
, St. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis, MissouriSt. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
, 2010, to redesign the grounds around the Gateway ArchGateway ArchThe Gateway Arch, or Gateway to the West, is an arch that is the centerpiece of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States...
, (in progress)
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See also
- Landscape ArchitectureLandscape architectureLandscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...
- Allegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront ParkAllegheny Riverfront Park is a small municipal park along the south bank of the Allegheny River in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Cultural District...
- ParkParkA park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas. Many parks are legally protected by...
- ASLAASLAASLA may refer to:* Academia de Ştiinţe, Literatură şi Arte* American Society of Landscape Architects...
- LandscapeLandscapeLandscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including the physical elements of landforms such as mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of...
- Teardrop ParkTeardrop ParkTeardrop Park is a public park in downtown Manhattan, in Battery Park City near to the site of the World Trade Center. It was designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, a New York City architectural landscaping firm...
- Mill Race ParkMill Race ParkMill Race Park is a city-owned park located in Columbus, Indiana where the Flat Rock and the Driftwood rivers join together in downtown Columbus.- History :...