Women Landscape Architects Honored

Landscape architects Marion Pressley and Martha Schwartz will be honored on Nov. 16 at the 2004 Women in Design Awards of Excellence event in Boston, Mass. Architect Ann B. Beha will share kudos at the awards luncheon, part of the fifth-annual Women in Design Conference.

This year's theme is ?EUR??,,????'??Leadership for Change: In the Workplace, Community and Design.?EUR??,,????'??

The three were chosen for bringing innovation, transformation and enhanced level of design to the profession of architecture.

Marion Pressley

Marion Pressley is principal of Pressley Associates, Inc. in Lowell, Mass.

Marion Pressley is known for her expertise in historic master planning and the restoration and rehabilitation of public parks and private historical properties. Pressley has been involved recently with the restoration of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society's Italianate Garden at Elm Bank and the production of a cultural landscape report for the Wistariahurst Museum in Holyoke, Mass. She has served as 2004 Boston Chapter Trustee for the ASLA.

Martha Schwartz

Martha Schwartz is principal of Martha Schwartz, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.

Landscape architect Martha Schwartz is known for her urban projects and for incorporating fine arts motifs in landscape architecture. Schwartz has taught at Radcliffe College and at the American Academy in Rome. Among her recent projects are a private residence for Sheikh Saud Al-Thani in Doha, Qatar, and a shopping mall exterior in Frankfurt, Germany.