Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities, communities and the urban landscape. As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, she has over 35 years of experience as a landscape architect, urbanist and artist on a wide variety of projects located around the world with a variety of world-renowned architects. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award; the Women in Design Award for Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects; an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects; and, most recently, a Council of Fellows Award by the American Society of Landscape Architects.

A tenured Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a founding member of the Working Group of Sustainable Cities at Harvard University, Schwartz is joined in this MIT lecture by Markus Jatsch, is award-winning and renowned architect and landscape urbanist who serves as Senior Partner and Creative Director at Martha Schwartz Partners.