Martha Schwartz

 

Martha Schwartz (image from http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/schwartz/)

One of the other Landscape Architects I also looked in to within my research. Her background is in both fields of Fine Art - Print Making and Landscape Architecture. An landscape architect who raises solutions to the level of fine art within her landscape designs. 

Her use of unusual materials, bright colours and interest and attraction to Pop Art artists such as Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns. Martha Schwartz is a woman who expresses her feelings within her designs freely. 

'' I'm the Queen of Low-Budget Jobs''

 (Martha Schwartz interview in the book - Martha Schwartz - Transfiguration of the Commonplace)

She is an landscape architect who has her own style and language within her designs, her landscape designs gives the audience an insight to her own thinking and her own language in design, but also allows the audience to interact within her landscape designs to understand the concept behind the design.

One of the things that has interested me while researching about Martha Schwartz is that like any other landscape architect she also works closely works with architects, but one of the factors about Martha Schwartz is that within her landscape projects, she requires architects to open up their buildings in order for the buildings to communicate with the surrounding landscape. So there wouldn't be isolation between the two or one over powering the other. 

In my opinion I think this is very important aspect especially in today's world we do get massive architectural designs were architecture does take over the landscape and does over power it's surrounding leaving the landscape in shadow. Working alongside architects in projects and designs that include landscapes in the surrounding when two professions come together I will say a more successful approach will be taken.