Diana Balmori

Diana Balmori

ASLA Chapter: New York City
Category: Leadership/Management
Firm: Balmori Associates, New York City
Education: University of California at Los Angeles; Ph.D. in Urban History, with Highest Honors; University of Tucum??????n, Argentina; Undergraduate Architecture Program

Most notable professional accomplishments: Projects: Master Plan for Public Administrative Town, Sejong, Korea ; Abandoibarra Masterplan, Bilbao (and Plaza Euskadi, Bilbao Jardin , Campa de los Ingelses in Bilbao); Long Island (GREEN) City Research and Silvercup Studios green roof.


Writing/Books: Balmori, Diana. A Landscape Manifesto. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2010; Balmori, Diana, Gordon T. Geballe, F. Herbert Bormann. Redesigning the American Lawn, A; Search for Environmental Harmony. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1993; Balmori, Diana, Diane Kostial McGuire and Eleanor M. McPeck. Beatrix Farrand?EUR??,,????'?????<. Sagaponack, New York: Sagapress. 1985.; Balmori, Diana. Beatrix Farrand at Dumbarton Oaks, The Design Process of a Garden. Eighth; Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture: Beatrix Jones Farrand; Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University. 1982. 99-123.


Academic: Yale University School of Architecture William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, Fall 2010; William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design, Fall 2008; Davenport Visiting Davenport Chair, Spring 2004



Presidential Appointment: Commission of Fine Arts (national organization on aesthetics for federal buildings and all monuments)