Matthew Louis Urbanski was born on 1963 and is an American landscape architect.
11 Facts About Matthew Urbanski
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Matthew Urbanski has planned and designed landscapes in the United States, Canada, and France, including waterfronts, parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, and private gardens.
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Matthew Urbanski was born in 1963 and grew up in Holmdel, New Jersey.
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Matthew Urbanski attended Albright College and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in biology.
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Matthew Urbanski attended Harvard's Graduate School of Design, receiving his Master of Landscape Architecture degree in 1989.
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Matthew Urbanski joined Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in 1989, a move that surprised many classmates because he and Van Valkenburgh had frequently argued while Matthew Urbanski was at Harvard.
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Matthew Urbanski began his career at MVVA working on both small gardens and on larger projects, most notably Mill Race Park in Columbus, Indiana.
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Matthew Urbanski has emerged as a leader in the firm's efforts to redefine the way that urban landscapes are planned and built, most notably in the Brooklyn Bridge Park project and the Lower Don Lands plan.
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Matthew Urbanski makes the argument that the city, which consists of a series of interdependent systems, resembles a landscape more than it does a building.
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Matthew Urbanski is credited with phrases that describe paradoxes encountered in contemporary design:.
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Matthew Urbanski has been a co-designer or lead designer on many works by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates that have gone on to win professional awards.