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María Bellalta Cromie, Asla Curriculum Vitae MARÍA BELLALTA CROMIE, ASLA CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Master of Landscape Architecture Cambridge, Massachusetts University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Fine Arts Concentration Notre Dame, Indiana ACADEMIC WORK Dean, School of Landscape Architecture Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2014-present Head, School of Landscape Architecture Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, August 2011-Fall 2014 Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board Review, October 2013 Master of Landscape Architecture Initial Accreditation (2016) Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Re-accreditation (2019) Chair, Foundation Studies Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2014-Present Co-Chair, MARCOM, Marketing - Communications Committee Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2014-Present Director, Landscape Institute Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2014-Present Director, Advanced Interdisciplinary Studios Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, December 2013-Present Visiting Faculty Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Escuela de Arquitectura y Diseño Urban Design Studio, Comuna de Santo Domingo, Medellín, Colombia Medellín, Colombia, May 2014 Adjunct Faculty, School of Landscape Architecture Boston Architectural College, Boston, Massachusetts, 2010-2011 Visiting Faculty Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile, Escuela de Arquitectura Urban Park at La Quinta Normal Santiago, Chile, July 2009 Landscape Architecture Studio Instructor and Lecturer Harvard University, Graduate School of Design Career Discovery Program Cambridge, Massachusetts, summer 1991 •1 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Design Principal, L T X URBAN LANDSCAPES STUDIO Brookline, Massachusetts, USA, 2010 - 2012 Private practice for contemporary urban landscapes, management and construction of public, institutional, commercial, and private projects. Focus on integration of urban design, architecture and landscape architecture addressing public realm solutions and new sustainable applications; landscape perfornance of built projects, including post occupancy ecological, economic and social benefits. Design Director Martha Schwartz Partners, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA / London, UK, 2007 - 2010 Design Director for Cambridge studio: design leadership, team management; conceptual vision and technical expertise through full landscape architectural services. Multiple international design ventures with billion dollar budgets. Consultant, Coordinator, reviewing financial projections and design productivity, design scope and financial proposals, including visual presentations, client meetings, international liaision and locally to deliver timely design solutions and meeting budgetary projections and creative programs. Conceptualization and design development for various projects ranging from new civic plazas, a new Central Park for Dubai, UAE, to a new sustainable city, the Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, Korea, Yongsan IBD, Dreamhub International winning competition with Studio Daniel Libeskind, 2009. Senior Associate Highmark Land Design, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004 - 2007 Senior Associate for sustainable design practice. Design lead, contract negotiation and administration for various civic and private development projects. Natural resources and water management and infrastructure remediation planning. Projects include urban parks, library courtyards, civic spaces and streetscapes, and performing arts cultural distrcit site improvements. Senior Associate Bellalta 3 Design, Boston, Massachusetts, 2003 - 2004 Senior associate for local design and construction firm. Projects within the public and private sectors, including urban parks, playgrounds, public library site improvements, and multimillion dollar residential developments. Project Manager, Design Lead Copley Wolff Design Group, Boston, Massachusetts, 2000 - 2003 Designer and project manager for City of Boston public sector projects as well as and private institutional open spaces: Harvard University, streetscape improvements for Central Artery/Tunnel Project from Dewey Square to Bullfinch Triangle; public parks and playgrounds, and campus greens. Executed design proposals for the Mayor and the City’s constituency groups; managed consulting teams, projected and managed City budgets; coordinated with consulting teams and provided construction administration services for local built projects throughout the City of Boston. Designer Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1994 - 2000 Associate designer for mayor civic and institutional projects, including grand entry and rooftop plaza improvements for the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in D.C., the rebuilt GSA headquarters in Oklahoma City, and the new Puerto Rico Convention Center in San Juan. Developed alternative design solutions, construction budgets, and construction documents, including demolition, layout, grading and planting, lighting and irrigation, and construction detail drawings. Public Art Curator, Sasaki Public Art Program Sasaki Associates, Watertown, Massachusetts, 1994 - 2000 Art curator for public art program. Solicited artists from across the metro region and nationally. Curation for gallery exhibitions of multi-media art works, including print material, annual scheduling. Conceived theoretical significance of exhibits, their layout, as well as the event planning for the public openings of contemporary artists working in the local and public environment. • 2 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, cont. Invited Landscape Architect Patricio Schmidt C. y Asociados Arquitecto: “Proyecto Piedra Roja” Santiago de Chile, July 1999 Consulting designer for 1,400 hectare mix-use real estate and commercial development and satellite city known as Piedra Roja, abutting the City of Santiago; open space design guidelines for Master Plan, including public parks and plazas, pocket parks, parking, recreational uses, streetscape, boulevards, and vehicular hierarchy studies. Coordination with Master Plan architects, Patricio Schmidt C. y Asociados Arquitecto and RTKL, Houston. Designer Martha Schwartz Partners, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992-1994 Lead designer for Cambridge office. Conceived and developed design ideas for public spaces high on the civic and public platforms. Envisioned how people occupy space and celebrate life through distinguished architecture, plazas, music and entertainment halls, and executed representative projects and design challenges. Conceptual, Design Development and Construction Documentation production. ACADEMIC COURSES Information Graphics, DME2017, spring 2016 Independent Study: The Medellín Story: Urbanism in Latin America City X, spring 2016 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar LA Studio on Social Urbanism, fall 2015, in Collaboration with Universidad Pontificia Bolívariana (UPB) El Pajarito Barrio: Urban Design and Housing Typologies: Chaotic and Ordered Space, Social Economy. Medellín, Colombia - Boston, MA Public Art, fall 2015 Independent Study: Public Art and Civic Spaces in Boston. LA Studio on Social Urbanism Summer Intensive, August 2015, UPB Medellín, Colombia City X, fall and spring, 2015 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio: Boston Living with Water, spring 2015 Adaptations with interdisciplinary criteria addressing various elements affecting constructed and natural spaces Advanced Open Studio, spring 2015 Advanced studio option addressing local and international sites, current physical and social agendas Advanced Interdisciplinary Studio, spring 2014 Boston City Hall Plaza and Transportation Center City X, spring 2014 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar City X, fall 2013 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar Esplanade Boston 2020 Studio, spring 2012, summer 2012 (Natural Systems, Urban Design, Housing) LA Year One: LA Theory and Practice, spring 2011, fall 2012 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar Broadway 1000 Steps Studio, spring 2012 Academic Partnership, Mary Miss Studio, NYC, Parson’s New School for Design, City College of New York (CCNY), the CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, Pratt Institute, Marymount Manhattan College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University; Ford Foundation Grant. • 3 ACADEMIC COURSES, cont. C-1 Interdisciplinary Studio, fall 2011 Lyceum Competition, Artists’ Studio and Program in Barre, VT Quarry, Public Art and Site Analysis. Construction II, spring 2011 Grading and Stormwater Management LA Year One: LA Theory and Practice, spring 2011, fall 2010 Theory and Practice in Landscape Architecture, Seminar Degree Project Studio II, spring 2010 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture final Degree Project studio: Malden River and Chelsea Waterfront Parks. Urban Design Studio, 1997 Boston Architectural College, School of Architecture Mission Main Public Housing, “A Developer’s Dream on Public Land” Boston Housing Authority and Hope VI grant for urban housing regeneration. LECTURES Of Immediate Concern: Student Enrollment and Our Professional Future Of Immediate Essence: The Elements of Landscape Architecture ASLA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Chicago, IL, November 2015 The Green Alley - Urban Solutions for the Future, Ecological Landscape Alliance BAC, Halvorson Design Partnership, Linean Solutions, Boston Ground Water Trust, Boston, MA, June 2015 Significance of Emerging
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