Tricia Martin

Tricia is a licensed landscape architect with twenty years experience working on complex urban sites ranging in scale from the region to a small lot. Tricia graduated with a BA in environmental studies from the University of Vermont and received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon where she received an ASLA Certificate of Honor. She received a NYC Public Design Commission award for the American Airlines Flight 587 Memorial (a project she managed while working at Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects) and more recently, Tricia received an ASLA–NY Merit award for Garden Rising: Lower East Side Community Gardens Green Infrastructure Feasibility Study. Tricia is most passionate about projects that embrace complex urban problems where landscape architecture is the agent for positive social and environmental change. Tricia was the design consultant for the Regional Plan Association’s latest publication, “Reinvisioning the Right-of-Way,” a vision for the next generation of streets for NYC and teaches urban design at Columbia University and landscape architecture studios at City College. She is regularly invited to speak about issues related to green infrastructure and landscape urbanism. She is also a past-president of the ASLA-NY Chapter.

• Urban Design Forum Fellow; 2018
• Board Member; Bridge to a Cure, 2016-Present
• The Design Trust for Public Space Fellow; 2015-Present
• President; NY-ASLA, 2009-2011
• Board Officer; Fine Arts Federation of New York; 2011-2014
• Registration in Landscape Architecture; 2015 LIC#: 04-002519

• Adjunct Professor; Department of Landscape Architecture, City College; 2020-2021
• Adjunct Assistant Professor; Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University; 2009-2020 Green Infrastructure Instructor; Center for Continuing and Professional Studies; Pratt Institute, 2011–2013
• Landscape Design Instructor; The New York Botanical Garden, Manhattan Center, 2009-2013

• “Brooklyn Greenway Case Study.” In Coastal Change, Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities (eds Marcha Johnson and Amanda Bayley), Springer International Publishing, 2016
• World Landscape Architecture 19, Residential, April, 2015
• “The Brooklyn Greenway: An Agent for Green Infrastructure, Climate Change Adaptation and Resiliency.” With the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, and eDesign Dynamics. Funded by The New York Department of State, 2014
• “The ASLA’s Sustainable Sites Initiative can extend New York’s green streak to a wide range of urban landscapes:Comment by Tricia Martin.” Architects Newspaper, December 11, 2009
• Sustainable Urban Design Manual; NYC Department of Design & Construction Office of Sustainable Design by Gruzen Samton Architects LLP with Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects PC. June 2008

• Panelist; Climate Action Series; Transition Town: Port Washington, NY 2022
• Panelist; Building Greenways: Better, Faster, and Smarter”; AIA Greenway Conference, New York, NY 2022
• Panelist; “El-Space: Innovation in City Design and Urban Regeneration”; AIA Conference on Architecture; New York, NY, 2018
• Invited guest lecturer; “Green + Social Infrastructure for Resilient Communities”; Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana School of Architecture and Design; Medellin, Colombia, 2017
• Panelist; “Transforming El Space Across New York State”; AIA New York State Design Conference; Saratoga, NY, 2016
• Lecturer; “Landscapes and Greenways of Resilience” The Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning; Budapest, Hungary, 2016
• Lecturer; “Greenways as Resilient Infrastructure”; Resilient Waterfront Parks; Regional Plan Association; New York, NY, 2016
• Lecturer; Shaping Your 21st Century Waterfront. Panelist. Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; 2015 Waterfront Conference; New York, NY, 2015
• Invited guest lecturer; “Maximizing Ecology to Bring Beauty and Pleasure Into the Built Environment”; University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA, 2014
• Panelist, Gowanus Design Summit; Gowanus Canal Conservancy; Brooklyn, NY, 2014
• Expert Participant; “Best Minds Post-Sandy Discussion”; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance; New York, NY, 2013
• Senate Briefing; “Reducing Costs and Spurring Job Growth: Using Green Infrastructure Practices to Protect and Restore Clean Water for Communities”; Washington DC, 2011
• Panelist; “Community Entanglement: Beyond the Charrette”; Organized and Presented at National ASLA Annual Conference; San Diego, CA, 2011
• Expert Participant; “Greening the Henry Street Settlement”; Municipal Art Society of New York; New York, NY, 2011
• Lecturer; “Greenways and Blueways: Agents for Green Infrastructure, Climate Change Adaptation, and Community Resilience”; NJ Environmental Federation’s 25th Annual Conference: Smarter, Greener and Cleaner Opportunities for your Community; Newark, NJ, 2011
• Lecturer; “Opportunities for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Neighborhoods”; Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Conference; New York, NY, 2010
• Expert Participant; “Spatial Planning and Water Management for New Waterfronts” for H209: Water Challenges for Coastal Cities – From the Dutch Delta to New York Harbor Design Workshop; New York, NY, 2009
• Lecturer; “Ecotones: Mitigating New York City’s Contentious Sites” CELA Conference; Tucson, AZ, 2009
• Curator; “ECOTONES: Mitigating NYC’s Contentious Sites;” Center For Architecture; New York, NY, 2008