Our landscape designs have received award-winning attention, and our work has been featured in numerous prominent publications. Over the years, our practice has evolved from providing landscape services primarily for private sector urban environments to large-scale public projects, land reclamation and planning studies on complex sites. Martha Schwartz Partners was founded in 1990 to provide a full range of landscape design services conceived and executed at the highest artistic level possible. Lorraine is furthermore intrinsic to developing further collaborative potentials between Harvard University, the Graduate School of Design, The Harvard Business School and the wider creative profession. She is currently the Principal in Charge on major Master Plans in Qatar a new development programme for the Children’s Project in Damascus, Syria Leamouth Peninsula, London, UK Edessa Town, Greece Boulogne Seguin HQ, France and Parc 1, Seoul, Korea. She has worked as project and strategy director on many prestigious projects in Europe, USA, the Far East and the Middle East. She has a background in fine arts and has 30 years experience as a designer. Lorraine Landels is a principal of Martha Schwartz Partners and is responsible for developing client relationships. She has lectured both nationally and internationally about the landscape with her work featuring widely in publications as well as gallery exhibitions. She holds a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of Ulster, and 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 of which she is a Fellow. Martha 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. Her mission is to explore the relationship between landscape, art and culture and challenge traditional concepts of landscape design 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 and make landscape design critical to the sustainability of our surroundings. Her background is in both fine arts and landscape architecture and is a Professor In Practice at The Harvard Graduate School of Design here she has taught since 1992. Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects, creating public realm spaces that engage with people, and build community through intelligent, focused, yet unexpected ideas-based design.

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