She has lectured both nationally and internationally about sustainable cities and the urban landscape, and her work has been featured widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions. Martha Schwartz is a tenured Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, advancing design for Climate Change Mitigation, a founding member of the Working Group of Sustainable Cities at Harvard University and an active member of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Climate Change Task Force. She is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes including the Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Award from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce for her outstanding contribution to UK design the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award the Women in Design Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Ireland a fellowship from the Urban Design Institute visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects Council of Fellows Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects and most recently a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Boston Architectural College. As founding partner of Martha Schwartz Partners, she has over 40 years of experience as a landscape architect, urbanist and artist on a wide variety of award winning projects located around the world. This Azure Talk is generously supported by our sponsors, Arper and Scavolini in partnership with the George Brown School of Design.Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities, communities and the urban landscape. Since 2000, he is a curator member at Aedes/Berlin. In 1996, he founded his own office, Kamel Loaufi Landscape Architects in Berlin. During those years, he freelanced on several projects in Luxembourg and in Berlin. A certificate will be provided by request, post-event. Born in Algeria, he studied Landscape Architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1980 to 1986. This talk qualifies for one ConEd structured learning hour. And then she will turn to the topic of the climate crisis, and how she has turned her attention in academia towards understanding the science of climate change as well as the solutions that may help to create a pathway forward – with the aim of encouraging others to participate and act in behalf of achieving climate stability. In “The Long and Winding Road: Landscape, Art, and My Existential Crisis,” the topic of her Azure Talks presentation, Schwartz will discuss the beginning of her career in art, which set the trajectory for her practice – now in its fourth decade – and shaped the field of landscape architecture. ![]() ![]() In tandem with her work as a tenured professor in practice of landscape of architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she is teaching climate change mitigation, she is also a founding member of the university’s Working Group of Sustainable Cities at and an active member of the Landscape Architecture Foundation Climate Change Task Force. Please contact the designers or photographers credited within each project presentation. Landezine can not and is prohibited from authorizing the use of images by third parties. In what she calls her “second career” she is pressing the landscape architecture profession to confront the realities of climate change. All photos, plans and renders of projects on Landezine are the property of a photographer or landscape architects mentioned within a specific project presentation. Schwartz herself, however, has switched gears in the past few years. Her firm continues to design exhilarating landscapes around the world. ![]() Martha Schwartz is renowned for the vibrant public spaces she has created around the world over the past 40 years: Village of Yorkville Park in Toronto, completed in 1995 Jacob Javits Plaza in New York (1997) the landscaping for the Swiss Re Headquarters in Munich the re-programming of Place de la République in Paris and a new central park for the Beiqijia Technology Business District in Beijing. On June 22, the day after the 2019 AZ Awards Gala, Azure will host a talk by the legendary landscape architect – and climate change activist – Martha Schwartz. Bobbies Green Thumb Bobbie Schwartz is the owner of Bobbies Green Thumb, a full time business focusing on landscape design, consultation, installation and maintenance, lecturing and writing.
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