MARY MARGARET JONES, FASLA, FAAR
PRESIDENT and SENIOR PRINCIPAL
HARGREAVES JONES
NEW YORK CITY
11 February 2020
Tuesday, 7:00 pm
Reception and check-in 6:15 pm
Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art
Hargreaves Jones (formerly Hargreaves Associates) has been at the forefront of landscape architecture and planning for 30+ years and is globally renowned for the transformation of neglected urban sites, waterfronts, and campuses into iconic places for their cities. The work ranges in scale from large and environmentally complex, such as Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City, the Parklands for London’s 2012 Olympics, Crissy Field on San Francisco Bay, and Zaryadye Park in Moscow, to place-making projects such as the University of Cincinnati’s campus, Discovery Green in Houston, and the T. Tyler Potterfield Bridge in Richmond, VA. The firm has won over 100 national and international awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize.
Their offices in New York City, San Francisco, and Cambridge, MA work on projects interchangeably, united by a philosophy of strong design fueled by rigorous investigation and research to create enduring landscapes for communities, institutions, and individuals. Often located in the heart of cities, these projects richly integrate urban systems, resilient planting and material strategies, and places for people. The work engages complex environmental systems at both the large and small scale, with the intention of setting landscapes into motion – evolving and adaptable, yet clearly human-made and managed. Every project is distinct, requiring a range of design approaches: amplifying the natural phenomena of a site, expressing narrative qualities, transforming infrastructural impediments into public realm opportunities, or encouraging individual interpretation and discovery. Above all, their deeply collaborative process aspires to foreground landscape as essential to enduring neighborhoods and cities – contributing to both civic and environmental resilience.
The firm’s work has been widely awarded, published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Hargreaves Jones was the 2016 recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award and the 2016 Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize. The work focuses on producing memorable landscapes for a wide range of urban design, waterfront, public park, academic, corporate, institutional, and residential projects that range in scale from large and environmentally complex, such as the 274-acre Parklands for London’s 2012 Olympics, Crissy Field in San Francisco, and Louisville’s Waterfront Park to place-making projects such as the University of Cincinnati’s campus and Discovery Green in Houston, TX to small plazas and gardens such as 555 Mission Street in San Francisco and Caruthers Park in Portland, OR.
