Martha Schwartz
Early training was as an
artist.
Martha as designer:
Goals
and Objectives:
• Making the familiar
unfamiliar
• Transfiguring the
commonplace
• Jolting us out of a
state of distraction,
Causing
us to be aware
• To really notice the
surrounding world.
She situates herself and her work within a modern framework
(where
we become active participants in a creative realm.)
Recall: Larry Halprin,
Tommy Church
Landscape architecture as a cultural practice.
Selected Projects:
• King County Jailhouse
Garden, Seattle, Washington
• Limed Parterre with
Skywriter, Massachusetts
• Turf Parterre Garden,
World Financial Center, Battery Park City, NY
• The Citadel, Commerce,
California
• Littman Wedding, Deal,
New Jersey
• Miami International
Airport Soundwall, Miami, Florida