Martha Schwartz Lecture

As part of the Carleton School of Architecture & Urbanism's Forum lecture series, world renowned landscape architect Martha Schwartz gave a great talk about sustainability and a review of some selected projects. She really emphasized sustainability by building emotional attachments to designs, ensuring their use over time by creating bonds between users and designs. Her work is very visually appealing, with prevailing bright colours and rooted in appeasing user needs.

Her work in cities, and ideas about downtown cityscapes was quite useful for my project. Her design for Jacob Javitz Plaza's design intent was defined as a place to eat lunch. The design is focused on providing lunchtime infrastructure staples such as abundant seating (with varying levels of intimacy), garbage cans, water fountains and creating a fluid transition between the park and streets.