Klopfer Martin Design Group, Boston, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts

 
Educated and registered as both a landscape architect and architect, Mark Klopfer's practice as a designer and educator is based on his love of exploring site history and expressing discoveries that are made through contemporary design. Mark practices with a sensitivity to the integration of built structure and site, demonstrating a level of craft that invites all who experience it to make new discoveries about time and place. As an educator, Mark has taught landscape content to more than 1,700 students-many first-generation college students-giving them ways of engaging and respecting a site and introducing them to the collaborative value of landscape architects. Among his award-winning projects are: Fisher Hill Reservoir Park, Brookline, MA-a new public park with a historic 10-acre reservoir and gatehouse in an Olmsted-designed community; The Bund, Shanghai-as the final stage of a tunnel that buried a highway, the wide riverfront promenade forms a major component of Shanghai's flood control system while making new, previously impossible connections; and The Steel Yard, Providence, RI-a 3.5-acre brownfield now serving a diverse community in industrial arts education, workforce training, and small-scale manufacturing.