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Selected Reviews of Work


June 6, 2008. "New York's Big Backyard", The New York Times, Helene Stapinski

May 22, 2008. "A New Manhattan Park Teaches Children About Plants", The New York Times, Joyce Wadler

December 2007. "Reasons to Smile at Teardrop", Landscape Architecture, Robin C. Moore

November 2007. "ASLA Greenroof Yields Impressive Benefits", Architectural Record, Joann Gonchard

October 2007. "Waterfront Redevelopment with a Difference", Urbanland, Charles Lockwood

August 2007. "New West Side Story", Landscape Architecture, Alex Ulam

May 9, 2007. "Winning design returns Don River to its rightful place in the city", Globe and Mail, Lisa Rochan

May 2, 2007. "A Revolutionary City Park", Toronto Star, Denis Otis

April 15, 2007. "Back to the Playground", Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

February 2007. "Abstract Realism", Landscape Architecture, Susan Hines

January 2007. "Landscape Architecture in the United States: Challenges for Contemporary Parks", Topos, Nadine Gerts

January 2007. "Making Hydrology Visible", Landscape Architecture, Vernon Mays

November 2006. "Raising the Bar on Green Roof Design", Landscape Architecture, Theodore Eisenman

October 2006. "Old School, New Space", Landscape Architecture, Allen Freeman

March 2006. "The Active Edge", Metropolis, Andrew Blum

April 10, 2005. "Reclaiming an Industrial Past", Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Whitney Gould

January 6, 2005. "The Call of the Primordial", The New York Times, Anne Raver

December 24, 2004. "Brooklyn Waterfront Park Inches Closer", The New York Times, Dianne Cardwell

October 2004. "Let It Be", Metropolis, Philip Nobel

September 30, 2004. "A Chip off the Old Park", The New York Times, David W. Dunlap

July 11, 2004. "Elevated Visions", The New York Times, Julie V. Iovine

July 9, 2004. "Greening Ye Olde Manhattan", The New York Times, David W. Dunlap

June 10, 2004. "Some Noted Planters Share What Treasures They're Burying", The Boston Globe, Carol Stocker

June 2004. "Capital Improvements - Restoring Grandeur to Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue", Architectural Digest, Christopher Petkanas

February / March 2004. "5 Rules to Design", Garden Design, Sarah Kinbar

January 15, 2004. "Tourist Spot is Hard-Hat Zone as Pennsylvania Avenue Work Begins", Washington Post, Monte Reel

January 10, 2004. "Plaza Work Starts at White House", Washington Post, NA NA

December 8, 2003. "The Sky Line Memories", The New Yorker, Paul Goldberger

November / December 2003. "Street Smart", Garden Design, Sarah Kinbar

October 16, 2003. "Its a great day for the design world when Jupiter aligns with Moss - and Friends", The Chicago Tribune, Karen Klages

October 16, 2003. "Rusticating the City With Ice, Rock and Seed", The New York Times, Anne Raver

September 5, 2003. "Panel approves Pennsylvania Avenue Plaza", Washington Post, Monte Reel

September 2003. "Shorelines on the Prairie", Landscape Architecture, Frank Edgerton Martin

July 2003. "Going to the Edge", Landscape Architecture, Allen Freeman

May 2003. "Some Surprise in Store on Cambridge Secret Garden Tour", Boston Globe, Carol Stocker

April 17, 2003. "Envisioning a Safer City", The New York Times, David W. Dunlap

March 13, 2003. "Panel Backs Pennsylvania Avenue Redesign", Washington Post, Sylvia Moreno

March 1, 2003. "America's Avenue Again", Washington Post, Benjamin Forgey

August 1, 2002. "Spider Island, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois", Dialogue, NA NA

September 2, 2002. "Changing the Guard", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Benjamin Forgey

January 2, 2002. "Urban Revitalizer", Metropolis, Patricia Lowry

October 1, 2001. "A Dallas Garden", Land Forum, Jane Brown Gillette

November 2000. "Competitions and Master Plan Yield Architecturally Rich Cambridge Development", Architectural Record, John E. Czarnecki

Fall-Winter 2000. "The Art of Universal Design: Designing for the 21st Century II Preconference", Public Art Review, Ricardo Barreto

Fall 2000. "Faculty Project: Teardrop Park", Harvard Design Magazine, Michael Van Valkenburgh

August 2000. "Mission Possible", Landscape Architecture Magazine, William E. Welsh

Summer 2000. "Allegheny Riverfront Park Lower Level", Land Forum, NA NA

March 2000. "Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh", Architectural Record, Clifford A. Pearson

August 1999. "Compost Plays Role in Riverfront Restoration", BioCycle, Dave Block

August 28, 1999. "A Preoccupation with the Real", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Graham Shearing

August 1999. "Chilmark School Opening Delayed", Martha's Vineyard Times, Nelson Sigleman

August 1999. "Park 'n Walk", Pittsburgh Magazine, Mike May

June 26, 1999. "Nature is Key", Boston Globe, Anthony Flint

May 1999. "Big Men on Campus", Metropolis, Katherine Anderson

March 1999. "Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh", The ARUP Journal, Tom Caroline Fitzgerald, and Greg Hodkinson Dawes

February7, 1999. "Getting Better All The Time", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, John G. Craig Jr.

January 26, 1999. "Park Survives First Dousing", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Kim Burger, Suzanne Elliott, Michael Hasch

December 14, 1998. "The River Runs By It", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, NA NA

December 1, 1998. "Decades-Old Vision of Riverfront Park a Reality", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Todd Gutnick

November 1988. "The Museum in the Garden", Progressive Architecture, Pilar Vilades

November 30, 1998. "Park Utilizes Native Amenities", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Patricia Lowry

October 1998. "Turning Point", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Dean Andrea Oppenheimer

August 1, 1998. "Addison's Big Plans", Dallas Morning News, Todd Bensman

June 1998. "Thompson and Rose's Equipment Building in Rural Washington State Demonstrates That There Can Be Elegance In Utility", Architectural Record, Karen D. Stein

March 1998. "Wheel Chair Ramp Drives Renovation of New School Courtyard", Architectural Record, Andrea Truppin

February 1998. "Michael", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jane Gillette

November 23, 1997. "For the New School, a New Courtyard", New York Times, NA NA

May 1997. "Out of the Box", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jane Gillette

February/March 1997. "On the Cutting Edge", Garden Design, Denise Otis

January 1997. "What Makes A Garden", House and Garden, William Howard Adams

January 1997. "Progressive Architecture Awards", Architecture, NA NA

October 1996. "162 Birches", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jane Gillette

August 1996. "Yard Work", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jane Gillette

May 29, 1996. "Mill Race Withstands Flooding", Republic, NA NA

April 7, 1996. "Bringing Wetlands Back to the Future", Minneapolis Star Tribune, Steve Brandt

December 11, 1995. "Trust Hopes Riverfront Park Will Enhance Cultural District", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Ethan Lott

December 10, 1995. "Architect, Artist Have Plans for Riverfront", Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Graham Shearing

December 9, 1995. "Proposed Riverfront Park a Vision in Green", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Donald Miller

December 6, 1995. "A New Park for Pittsburgh", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, NA NA

December 5, 1995. "The Trees of Life for Downtown", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Tom Barnes

December 1994. "Decorated Shed", Architecture, NA NA

October 27, 1994. "Yard Project Wins Two Preservation Awards", Harvard University Gazette, Laura Ferguson

October 1994. "French Connection", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Philippe Madec

July/August 1994. "Every Tree Doomed", Harvard Magazine, Jonathan Shaw

Summer 1994. "Master Plan for Yard Emerges", Harvard University Gazette, Marvin Hightower

June 24, 1994. "A Splendid Proposal", Vineyard Gazette, NA NA

Spring 1994. "Restoring The Harvard Yard Landscape", Arnoldia, Michael Van Valkenburgh & Peter Del Tredici

May 1994. "Design With the Land:Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh", Princeton Architectural Press, James Corner

November 1993. "Harvard Yard Master Plan: 1993 ASLA Awards", Landscape Architecture Magazine, NA NA

November 1993. "Mill Race Park", Architectural Record, K. D.S

October 15, 1993. "Master Plan for Yard Awarded National Prize", Harvard University Gazette, Ken Gewertz

October 1993. "In the Works - Harvard Yard", Planning, NA NA

September/October 1993. "Long-Term Dividends", Garden Design, Lee Fleming

September 1993. "Mill Race Park: Rescuing 'Death Valley'", Landscape Architecture Magazine, John Beardsley

December 30, 1992. "Uncovering the Waterfront", The Wall Street Journal, Eve Kahn

October 1992. "Metal Machine Garden", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jane Holtz Kay

September 1992. "Avant-Garde Ecology", The Architectural Review, Vol. CXCI, No. 1147, Elsa Leviseur

June 1992. "Boston Children's Museum", Architecture, K. S.

March/April 1992. "A Garden Sculpted for Art", Garden Design, Dirk Sutro

February 1992. "Paris, Non; New York, Yes", Boston Magazine, NA NA

January 1992. "Museum Landscapes: More Space for Sculpture", Landscape Architecture Magazine, John Beardsley

October/December 1991. "Un Jardin au Minnesota", Vogue Decoration, Denise Otis

September 1991. "Valkenburgh Saitowitz Collaborate in Columbus", Architectural Record, P. D.S.

January/February 1991. "Minneapolis Sculpture Garden: A Design Lab", Inland Architect, Kate Christianson

December 1990. "50 Avenue Montaigne", Landscape Architecture Magazine, NA NA

November 1990. "1990 Awards-Black Granite Garden", Landscape Architecture Magazine, NA NA

April 1990. "Michael Van Valkenburgh", Dialogue, NA NA

March 1990. "Personal Oases", New England Monthly, Charlotte Frieze

Spring 1990. "Conceiving a Courtyard", Places, Michael & Carol Van Valkenburgh

July 1989. "Profile on Michael Van Valkenburgh", Progressive Architecture, Jory Johnson

July 1989. "Green Magic Indoors", Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

April 1989. "The Museum as Garden", Landscape Architecture, Jean Fienberg

March 1989. "High Tech Topiaries", Progressive Architecture, Daralice D. Boles

January 1989. "Botanic Gardens", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Jory Johnson

Summer 1988. "American Landscape Architects", SD, Toru Mitani

February 1988. "Ice Sculptures", New York Times, Douglas C. McGill

November 1987. "Landscapes That Recall Rural Simplicity", New York Times, Paula Deitz

October 1987. "Two Boston Architects Win Design Competition", Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

March 1987. "Review of 'Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs'", House and Garden, Howard Adams

1986. "Critical Debate about the entries in 'Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs'", Places, Vol. 3, Susan, et al. Frey

September 1986. "Review of 'Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs'", Art Forum, Patricia C. Phillips

August 1986. "The Flowering of New England (on the Druker Garden)", House and Garden, Jory Johnson

Jan/Feb 1986. "Notations of Nature's Progress", Landscape Architecture Magazine, Michael Van Valkenburgh

November 1984. "Winning Plans for Copley Square Go on View", Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

November 6, 1984. "Winning Plans for Copley Square", The Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

Fall 1984. "Altered Perceptions (on the Speert Garden)", Garden Design Magazine, Jory Johnson

March 20, 1984. "American Garden-making as a Work of Art", The Boston Globe, Robert Campbell

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984. "Designer's Choice: 15 North American Landscape Designers", Garden Design, Susan Littlefield

August 11, 1984. "Built Landscapes at Wave Hill", The New York Times, Linda Yang

Fall 1983. "Arch/Angle (on the Conne Garden)", Garden Design Magazine, Jory Johnson