Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.

2013
Michael Van Valkenburgh with William S. Saunders, “Landscapes Over Time,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, March 2013 view online

2012
Stephen Sharpe, “Team Selected for Linear Park in Downtown Austin,” Architectural Record, October 2012 view project | view online
Bill Morris, “Detroit 2025: After the Recession, a City Reimagined,” Popular Mechanics, October 2012 view online
Ryan A. Cunningham, “Civic Waterfronts,” Metropolis, August 2012 view project | view online
Michael Van Valkenburgh, “From Mill Race to Brooklyn Bridge: Two Decades of Waterfront Parks,” View, The Magazine of the Library of American Landscape Architecture, August 2012
Aaron Seward, “Wasteland Revival,” Architect Magazine, July 2012 view project | view online
Rachel Gleeson, Matthew Urbanski, “Strategies for Enhancing Marine (and Human) Life: Brooklyn Bridge park,” Ecological Restoration, February 2012 view project
Charlene Prost, “Revised Arch Plan has Grand Sweep of an Entrance,” St. Louis Beacon, January 25, 2012 view project | view online

2011
Matthew Urbanski, “Making Space in New York ,” Topos, December 2011 view project | view online
Paula Deitz, “Michael Van Valkenburgh and the Design of Brooklyn Bridge Park,” SiteLines, October 2011 view project | view online
ASLA, “A Coherent Public Space Forms Out of a Mess of Infrastructure,” DIRT, September 2011 view project | view online
Jennifer Lin, “Penn’s New Park Offers Open Space, ‘Big Sky’ Views,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 13, 2011 view project | view online
“Rethinking Kiener Plaza as a Gracious Link Between Citygarden and Arch,” St. Louis Beacon, June 08, 2011 view project | view online
Gwen Webber, “Contested Ground,” The Architect's Newspaper, March 26, 2011 view online
Justin Worland, “Professor Wins Prize for Park Design,” Harvard Crimson, February 03, 2011 view project | view online
Suzanne Labarre, “A Simple Concrete Bridge that Could Save America's Wildlife,” Co.Design, January 25, 2011 view project | view online
ASLA, “Better Crossing Design Can Reduce Collisions between Wildlife and People,” The Dirt, January 24, 2011 view project | view online
Matthew L. Wald, “Design Picked for Wildlife Crossing,” New York Times, January 23, 2011 view project | view online
Sarah Amelar, “Brooklyn Bridge Park,” Architectural Record, January 2011 view project | view online

2010
Rachel Gleeson, “Toronto's Lower Don Lands,” Topos, December 2010 view project
Julie V. Iovine, “The Public Option: Parks and Libraries Soar,” Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2010 view project | view online
Paul Goldberger, “New York Architecture: The Events of the Year,” The New Yorker, December 16, 2010 view project | view online
Robert W. Duffy, “The Arch, the River and Can-Do Spirit,” St. Louis Beacon, December 10, 2010 view project | view online
Jacob E. Osterhout, “Brooklyn Landscape Design Firm Heads to St. Louis to Take on the Gateway Arch Park,” New York Daily News, November 05, 2010 view project | view online
Alex Ulam, “On the New Waterfront,” Landscape Architecture, November 2010 view project | view online
Avinash Rajagopal, “Framing the Gateway Arch,” Metropolis, September 24, 2010 view project | view online
Doug Moore, “New York Firm MVVA Wins Arch Design Competition,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, September 21, 2010 view project | view online
Adam T. Horn, “Architects of the Outdoors,” Harvard Crimson, September 14, 2010 view project | view online
Richard Calder, “Green Park to $ave Green,” New York Post, September 07, 2010 view project | view online
Nicolai Ouroussoff, “The Greening of the Waterfront,” New York Times, April 01, 2010 view project | view online
Susan Dominus, “A Peaceful Refuge in Brooklyn, and All the Noise It Took to Build It,” New York Times, March 22, 2010 view project | view online
Jane Roy Brown, “Through the Woods: A Path Becomes the Primary Feature of a Residential Landscape in Maine,” Landscape Architecture, February 2010 view project
Carl Glassman, “Yet Another Look in Store for Federal Plaza,” Tribeca Tribune, February 01, 2010 view project | view online

2009
Anita Berrizbeitia, ed., Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes, 2009 view online
Sarah Bernard, “Union Square Wonderland,” New York Magazine, December 27, 2009 view project | view online
Frank Sleegers, “Toronto Waterfront: The New Blue Edge,” Topos, December 2009 view project
Lori Stahl, “George W. Bush Presidential Center Design Is Unveiled,” Dallas News, November 18, 2009 view project | view online
Andrew Blum, “Metaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the City,” Design Observer, September 2009 view project | view online
Peter Stegner, “Teardrop Park [Battery Park City, New York],” Topos, June 2009 view project

2008
Marty Carlock, “Playful, but Not a Playground: Boston Children's Museum Brings Learning Outside,” Landscape Architecture, December 2008 view project | view online
Adam Regn Arvidson, “Reshaping Toronto's Waterfront: Toronto's Lakefront Has Mostly Been a Missed Opportunity, Until Now,” Landscape Architecture, December 2008 view project | view online
Ted Smalley Bowen, “Small Footprints, Small Clientele: Boston's Children's Museum Broadens Its Green Agenda with Sustainable Renovation and Expansion,” GreenSource, November 2008 view project
Joyce Wadler, “A New Manhattan Park Teaches Children About Plants,” New York Times, May 22, 2008 view project | view online
Robert Campbell, “Up High and Down to Earth,” Boston Globe, April 20, 2008 view project | view online
Allen Freeman, “The Greening of the Yard,” Preservation, January 2008 view project | view online

2007
Christian Werthmann, Green Roof: A Case Study: Michael Van Valkenburgh’s Design for the Headquarters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, 2007 view project | view online
Robin C. Moore, “Reasons to Smile at Teardrop,” Landscape Architecture, December 2007 view project
Joann Gonchar, “ASLA Greenroof Yields Impressive Benefits,” Architectural Record, November 2007 view project | view online
Yunyun Cai, “C.U. Celebrates Bailey Plaza,” Cornell Daily Sun, October 22, 2007 view project | view online
Charles Lockwood, “Waterfront Redevelopment with a Difference,” Urbanland, October 2007
Alex Ulam, “New West Side Story,” Landscape Architecture, August 2007 view project | view online
Lisa Rochon, “Winning Design Returns Don River to Its Rightful Place in the City,” Globe and Mail, May 09, 2007 view project
Christopher Hume, “A Winning Vision for the Lower Don,” Toronto Star, May 09, 2007 view project | view online
Denise Otis, “A Revolutionary City Park,” Toronto Star, May 02, 2007 view project
Drake Bennett, “Back to the Playground,” Boston Globe, April 15, 2007 view project | view online
Susan Hines, “Abstract Realism,” Landscape Architecture, February 2007 view project | view online
Nadine Gerdts, “Landscape Architecture in the United States: Challenges for Contemporary Parks,” Topos, January 2007
Vernon Mays, “Making Hydrology Visible,” Landscape Architecture, January 2007

2006
Theodore Eisenman, “Raising the Bar on Green Roof Design,” Landscape Architecture, November 2006 view project | view online
Allen Freeman, “Old School, New Space,” Landscape Architecture, October 2006
Andrew Blum, “The Active Edge,” Metropolis, March 2006 view project | view online

2005
Stacey Stowe, “Connecticut Town Helps Create an Architectural Anomaly: An Appealing Water Plant,” New York Times, December 04, 2005 view project | view online
Victoria Newhouse, “On Display in Dallas: Contemporary Masterworks Define a Gallery Guesthouse,” Architectural Digest, October 2005 view project
Sara Hart, “Steven Holl Creates a Prototype with Connecticut Water Purification Facility and Park that Reestablishes Public Works as Works of Art,” Architectural Record, October 2005 view project | view online
Mark Alden, “Water Shed [Whitney Water Purification Facility and Park],” Architecture, October 2005 view project
Robert F. Worth, “Agency Adopts Park Plan for Brooklyn Waterfront,” New York Times, July 27, 2005 view project | view online
David Dillon, “Feral Geometry: A Creekside Garden that Blends Design Aesthetics and Environmental Sensitivity,” Landscape Architecture, July 2005 view project | view online
Lisa Chamberlain, “Planning the Final Stages of a Park’s Makeover,” New York Times, June 26, 2005 view project | view online
Timothy Williams, “Here Comes the Sun, Redirected,” New York Times, June 02, 2005 view project | view online
Whitney Gould, “Reclaiming an Industrial Past,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 10, 2005
Anne Raver, “The Call of the Primordial,” New York Times, January 06, 2005 view project | view online

2004
Diane Cardwell, “Brooklyn Waterfront Park Inches Closer,” New York Times, December 24, 2004 view project | view online
Gavin Keeney, “The Highline and the Return of the Irreal,” Competitions, December 2004 view project
Sarah Kinbar, “Wild at Heart: Michael Van Valkenburgh Creates Order in the 'Rowdiness' of a Texas Wildscape - and Invites Garden Strolling and Contemplation,” Garden Design, November 2004
Philip Nobel, “Let It Be,” Metropolis, October 2004 view project | view online
David W. Dunlap, “A Chip Off the Old Park,” New York Times , September 30, 2004 view project | view online
Julie V. Iovine, “Elevated Visions,” New York Times, July 11, 2004 view project | view online
David W. Dunlap, “Greening Ye Olde Manhattan,” New York Times, July 09, 2004 view project | view online
Carol Stocker, “Some Noted Planters Share What Treasures They're Burying,” Boston Globe, June 10, 2004
Christopher Petkanas, “Improvements - Restoring Grandeur to Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue,” Architectural Digest, June 2004 view project
Eva-Maria Epple, “High Line Park in New York,” Garten + Landschaft, March 2004 view project
Sarah Kinbar, “5 Rules to Design,” Garden Design, February 2004
Monte Reel, “Tourist Spot is Hard-Hat Zone as Pennsylvania Avenue Work Begins,” Washington Post, January 15, 2004 view project
“Plaza Work Starts at White House,” Washington Post, January 10, 2004 view project

2003
Paul Goldberger, “Memories,” New Yorker, December 08, 2003 view online
Sarah Kinbar, “Street Smart,” Garden Design, November 2003
Karen Klages, “It’s a Great Day for the Design World When Jupiter Aligns with Moss - and Friends,” Chicago Tribune, October 16, 2003 view online
Anne Raver, “Rusticating the City With Ice, Rock and Seed,” New York Times, October 16, 2003 view project | view online
Monte Reel, “Panel Approves Pennsylvania Avenue Plaza,” Washington Post, September 05, 2003 view project
Frank Edgerton Martin, “Shorelines on the Prairie,” Landscape Architecture, September 2003
Allen Freeman, “Going to the Edge,” Landscape Architecture, July 2003
Carol Stocker, “Some Surprise in Store on Cambridge Secret Garden Tour,” Boston Globe, May 29, 2003
Anne Raver, “Field Trip: Manhattan Statues in a Garden in the Bronx,” New York Times, April 23, 2003 view online
David W. Dunlap, “Envisioning a Safer City Without Turning It Into Slab City,” New York Times, April 17, 2003 view project | view online
Sylvia Moreno, “Panel Backs Pennsylvania Avenue Redesign,” Washington Post, March 13, 2003 view project
Benjamin Forgey, “America's Avenue Again,” Washington Post, March 01, 2003 view project | view online

2002
James G. Trulove, foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh, Ten Landscapes: Stephen Stimson Associates, 2002 view online
Benjamin Forgey, “Changing the Guard,” Landscape Architecture, September 02, 2002 view project | view online
“Spider Island, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois,” Dialogue, August 01, 2002 view project
Patricia Lowry, “Urban Revitalizer,” Metropolis, January 02, 2002

2001
Jane Brown Gillette, “A Dallas Garden,” Land Forum, October 01, 2001

2000
Ricardo Barreto, “Art of Universal Design: Designing for the 21st Century II Preconference,” Public Art Review, December 2000 view project | view online
John E. Czarnecki, “Competitions and Master Plan Yield Architecturally Rich Cambridge Development,” Architectural Record, November 2000
Michael Van Valkenburgh, “Faculty Project: Teardrop Park,” Harvard Design Magazine, September 2000 view project
William E. Welsh, “Mission Possible,” Landscape Architecture, August 2000 view project
“Allegheny Riverfront Park Lower Level,” Land Forum, June 2000 view project
Clifford A. Pearson, “Allegheny Riverfront Park, Pittsburgh,” Architectural Record, March 2000 view project
Julian E. Barnes, “New Hotel? No Thanks, They'd Prefer a Marsh,” New York Times, January 20, 2000 view project | view online

1999
Mason Riddle, “The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden,” Sculpture Magazine, October 1999 view project | view online
Graham Shearing, “A Preoccupation with the Real,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, August 28, 1999 view project
Dave Block, “Compost Plays Role in Riverfront Restoration,” BioCycle, August 1999
Nelson Sigleman, “Chilmark School Opening Delayed,” Martha's Vineyard Times, August 1999
Mike May, “Park 'n Walk,” Pittsburgh Magazine, August 1999 view project
Katherine Anderson, “Big Men on Campus,” Metropolis, May 1999
Tom Dawes, Caroline Fitzgerald, and Greg Hodkinson, “Allegheny Riverfront Park,” ARUP Journal, March 1999 view project
John G. Craig, Jr., “Getting Better All The Time,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 07, 1999 view project
Kim Burger, Suzanne Elliott, and Michael Hasch, “Park Survives First Dousing,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, January 26, 1999 view project

1998
“The River Runs By It,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 14, 1998 view project
Todd Gutnick, “Decades-Old Vision of Riverfront Park a Reality,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 01, 1998 view project
Patricia Lowry, “Park Utilizes Native Amenities,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, November 30, 1998 view project | view online
Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, “Turning Point: Michael Van Valkenburgh's Collaboration on a Compact Courtyard Brings a New Subtlety to His Work,” Landscape Architecture, October 1998
Todd Bensman, “Addison's Big Plans,” Dallas Morning News, August 01, 1998
Karen D. Stein, “Thompson and Rose's Equipment Building in Rural Washington State Demonstrates That There Can Be Elegance in Utility,” Architectural Record, June 1998
Andrea Truppin, “Wheel Chair Ramp Drives Renovation of New School Courtyard,” Architectural Record, March 1998 view project
Jane Gillette, “Michael,” Landscape Architecture, February 1998

1997
“For the New School, a New Courtyard,” New York Times, November 23, 1997 view project | view online
Jane Gillette, “Out of the Box,” Landscape Architecture, May 1997
Denise Otis, “On the Cutting Edge,” Garden Design, February 1997
William Howard Adams, “What Makes A Garden,” House and Garden, January 1997
“Progressive Architecture Awards: Allegheny Riverfront Park,” Architecture, January 1997 view project

1996
James Corner and Alex S. MacLean, foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh, Taking Measures Across the American Landscape, 1996
Jane Gillette, “162 Birches,” Landscape Architecture, October 1996
Jane Gillette, “Yard Work,” Landscape Architecture, August 1996
“Mill Race Withstands Flooding,” Republic, May 29, 1996 view project
Steve Brandt, “Bringing Wetlands Back to the Future,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 07, 1996

1995
Ethan Lott, “Trust Hopes Riverfront Park Will Enhance Cultural District,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 11, 1995 view project
Graham Shearing, “Architect, Artist Have Plans for Riverfront,” Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 10, 1995 view project
Donald Miller, “Proposed Riverfront Park a Vision in Green,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 09, 1995 view project
“A New Park for Pittsburgh,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 06, 1995 view project
Tom Barnes, “The Trees of Life for Downtown,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 05, 1995 view project

1994
Brooke Hodge, ed., Design With the Land: The Landscape Architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh, 1994 view online
“Decorated Shed,” Architecture, December 1994
Laura Ferguson, “Yard Project Wins Two Preservation Awards,” Harvard University Gazette, October 27, 1994 view project
Philippe Madec, “French Connection,” Landscape Architecture, October 1994
Jonathan Shaw, “Every Tree Doomed,” Harvard Magazine, July 1994 view project
“A Splendid Proposal,” Vineyard Gazette, June 24, 1994
Marvin Hightower, “Master Plan for Yard Emerges,” Harvard University Gazette, June 1994 view project
Michael Van Valkenburgh and Peter Del Tredici, “Restoring the Harvard Yard Landscape,” Arnoldia, March 1994 view project | view online
“Collezione di Architetture: Città di Columbus, Indiana,” Abitare, March 1994 view project

1993
“Harvard Yard Master Plan: 1993 ASLA Awards,” Landscape Architecture, November 1993 view project
K. D.S, “Mill Race Park,” Architectural Record, November 1993 view project
Ken Gewertz, “Master Plan for Yard Awarded National Prize,” Harvard University Gazette, October 15, 1993 view project
“In the Works - Harvard Yard,” Planning, October 1993 view project
Lee Fleming, “Long-Term Dividends,” Garden Design, September 1993
John Beardsley, “Mill Race Park: Rescuing 'Death Valley',” Landscape Architecture, September 1993 view project
Robert E. Engstrom, “Sculpture Garden Par Excellence,” Urban Land, April 1993

1992
Eve Kahn, “Uncovering the Waterfront,” Wall Street Journal, December 30, 1992
Jane Holtz Kay, “Metal Machine Garden,” Landscape Architecture, October 1992
Michael Leccese, “The Dream Team: Three Experts Reconsider One Suburban Garden,” Garden Design, September 1992
Elsa Leviseur, “Avant-Garde Ecology,” Architectural Review, September 1992
K. S., “Boston Children's Museum,” Architecture, June 1992 view project
Dirk Sutro, “A Garden Sculpted for Art,” Garden Design, March 1992
“Paris, Non; New York, Yes,” Boston Magazine, February 1992
John Beardsley, “Museum Landscapes: More Space for Sculpture,” Landscape Architecture, January 1992

1991
Michael Van Valkenburgh, “Eudoxia,” in Sutherland Lyall, Designing the New Landscape, 1991
Denise Otis, “Un Jardin au Minnesota,” Vogue Decoration, October 1991 view project
Anne Raver, “The New Crop,” New York Times, October 13, 1991 view project | view online
P. D.S., “Valkenburgh Saitowitz Collaborate in Columbus,” Architectural Record, September 1991 view project

1990
“50 Avenue Montaigne,” Landscape Architecture, December 1990 view project
“1990 Awards-Black Granite Garden,” Landscape Architecture, November 1990 view project
“Michael Van Valkenburgh,” Dialogue, April 1990
Michael and Carol Van Valkenburgh, “Conceiving a Courtyard,” Places, March 1990
Charlotte Frieze, “Personal Oases,” New England Monthly, March 1990

1989
Judith B. Tankard and Michael R. Van Valkenburgh, Gertrude Jekyll: A Vision of Garden and Wood, 1989
Robert Campbell, “Green Magic Indoors,” Boston Globe, July 25, 1989
Jory Johnson, “Profile on Michael Van Valkenburgh,” Progressive Architecture, July 1989
Jean Feinberg, “The Museum as Garden,” Landscape Architecture, April 1989
Daralice D. Boles, “High Tech Topiaries,” Progressive Architecture, March 1989
Linda Yang, “English Garden, Picture Perfect,” New York Times, February 16, 1989 view online
Jory Johnson, “Botanic Gardens,” Landscape Architecture, January 1989

1988
Pilar Vilades, “The Museum in the Garden,” Progressive Architecture, November 1988
Toru Mitani, “American Landscape Architects,” SD, June 1988
Douglas C. McGill, “Art People: Ice Sculptures,” New York Times, February 12, 1988 view project | view online

1987
Paula Deitz, “Landscapes That Recall Rural Simplicity,” New York Times, November 05, 1987 view online
Robert Campbell, “Two Boston Architects Win Design Competition,” Boston Globe, October 17, 1987
Howard Adams, “Review of 'Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs',” House and Garden, March 1987

1986
Michael Van Valkenburgh, “Eudoxia,” in “Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs,” Places, December 1986 view online
Patricia C. Phillips, “Review of 'Transforming the American Garden: Twelve New Landscape Designs',” Artforum, September 1986
Jory Johnson, “The Flowering of New England (on the Druker Garden),” House and Garden, August 1986
Michael Van Valkenburgh, “Notations of Nature's Progress,” Landscape Architecture, January 1986

1984
Michael Van Valkenburgh, curator, Built Landscapes: Gardens in the Northeast, 1984
Susan Littlefield, “Designer's Choice: 15 North American Landscape Designers,” Garden Design, 1984
Robert Campbell, “Winning Plans for Copley Square,” Boston Globe, November 06, 1984
Jory Johnson, “Altered Perceptions (on the Speert Garden),” Garden Design, September 1984
Linda Yang, “Northeast Gardens in Photo Exhibition,” New York Times, August 09, 1984
Robert Campbell, “American Garden-making as a Work of Art,” Boston Globe, March 20, 1984

1983
Jory Johnson, “Arch/Angle (on the Conne Garden),” Garden Design, September 1983