Janice Parker is a world-renowned landscape architect who founded her eponymous firm in 1984. Schwartz was recently awarded the 2020 ASLA Design Medal and has a host of other international awards, including Royal Designer for Industry Award from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, and the Women in Design Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects.Īdditionally, Schwartz is a founding member of the Working Group of Sustainable Cities at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, the Landscape Architecture Foundation's “Working Group on Climate Change,” and has most recently founded Mayday.Earth, a non-profit organization focused on educating people on global-scale solutions for landscape architecture to preserve and better our planet. The highly acclaimed architect has spent her career focusing and teaching about the urban public realm landscape and the importance of having "climate ready" cities. She is also a tenured professor in the Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and an active participant in the school's Climate Change Working Group. Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect, urbanist, climate activist and principal at Martha Schwartz Partners, which is based in London, New York, and Shanghai. She is the author of The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design,columnist for the Times, and won BBC Radio Broadcaster of the Year for her Radio 4 Woman’s Hour features in 2002. She also sits on the committee for Waddeson on behalf of the Rothschild Foundation.īlom has been nominated three times for Woman of the Year for contribution to society through her work honoring both passions and is a board member of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network in the U.S. A few notable projects include five Chelsea Flower Shows-one of them being for HRH the Prince of Wales, two for Laurent-Perrier, and one for Prince Harry's first venture into the flower show in 2013.īlom is an Artist in Residence for Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, a member of the Artworkers Guild, and longstanding member of the Garden Media Guild. She founded her eponymous design studio in 2000 and has been creating award-winning gardens ever since. U.K.-based garden designer Jinny Blom pivoted to a career in landscapes while working with mentally ill clients in London's inner city as a psychotherapist.
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