Martha Schwartz
Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects and the exploration of new design expression in the landscape. Her background is in both fine arts and landscape architecture.
As president of Martha Schwartz Partners in Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, UK, her goal is to 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.
She 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. Ms. Schwartz 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. Ms. Schwartz is also a professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, where she has taught since 1992. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about the landscape. Her work has been featured widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions.
Recent and current projects include Leamouth Peninsula, London, UK; St Mary’s Churchyard, London, UK; Wellington Place, Leeds, UK; Brighton Seafront, Brighton, UK; Dublin Docklands Grand Canal Square, Dublin, Ireland; Frederiks Brygge Master Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark; Qatar Petroleum Headquarters, Doha, Qatar; The Children’s Centre, Damascus, Syria; Al Ain Sports City, Al Ain, UAE; Mesa Arts Center, Arizona, USA,; Cosmopolitan Casino, Las Vegas, USA; Master Plan for Lulu Island, UAE; the Swiss Re Headquarters, Munich, Germany; and Barclays Bank Headquarters, London, UK.
