KAKI MARTIN, ASLA Principal PROFILE

Ms. Martin is a landscape architect with nearly twenty years of practice experience. Her experience is based in public park and streetscape design in mostly urban conditions, institutional and open space master planning, and river edge landscapes. She has keen interest in and knowledge of the design and construction of public urban landscapes. She has extensive public design process experience and has led several multi-disciplinary projects in the public sector all of which included a wide range of stakeholder groups. Reaching consensus around the design of urban spaces that satisfy the programmatic needs of a constituant group in an artful and contemporary way is her primary goal. Recent work includes the re-design of Kennedy Plaza in Providence RI, the Kendall Square Main St streetscape and Longfellow Bridge median, and final design of Central Square in East . Ms. Martin is an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and taught in a similar capacity at the Graduate School of Design at . Additionally, she has been a member of thesis advisory teams at the Boston Architectural College and continues to be a visiting design juror at many institutions including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. She is currently the Vice Chair of the Cambridge Conservation Commission and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects Nominations Committee. Ms. Martin is also a founding member of Good Sports, a Boston based non-profit devoted to ensure that disadvantaged youth have the equipment they need to participate in organized athletic programs.

EDUCATION Master of Landscape Architecture, 1995 - Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts Bachelor of Arts (Art History and Painting), Charles Hovey Pepper Prize, 1990 - Colby College; Waterville, Maine

CAREER SUMMARY Klopfer Martin Design Group, Boston, MA Principal 2007 - Present Crosby|Schlessinger|Smallridge, LLC, Boston, MA Associate 2003 - 2007 Wallace Floyd Design Group, Boston, MA Associate 2000 - 2003 Hargreaves Associates, Cambridge, MA Job Captain/Project Designer 1997 - 1999 Martha Schwartz, Inc., Cambridge, MA Project Designer 1995 - 1997

SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS 2013 Silver Medal, Award of Urban Design Excellence, Rudy Bruner Foundation, The Steel Yard 2012 The Senator John H Chafee Conservation Leadership Award, Environmental Council of Rhode Island, The Steel Yard 2011 Honor Award for Design, General Design, American Society of Landscape Architects, The Steel Yard The Rhody Award, Landscape Preservation, RI Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, The Steel Yard Great Places Award for Design, Environmental Design Research Association, The Steel Yard Honor Award - Boston Society of Landscape Architects, The Steel Yard Honor Award - Boston Society of Landscape Architects, North End Parks [C|S|S]

2010 Reuse and Neighborhood Preservation Award - Providence Preservation Society, The Steel Yard 2008 First Place in International Competition, Bund Waterfront. In collaboration with Chan Krieger Sieniewicz KAKI MARTIN, ASLA Principal 2005 Merit Award - Unbuilt Work, Boston Society of Landscape Architects North End Parks, Crosby|Schlessinger|Smallridge 2004 Citation, Design Awards, Boston Society of Architects Ritz-Carlton Georgetown, Handel Architects (w Hargreaves Associates) 2000 Merit Award, American Society of Landscape Architects, National Design Awards HUD Plaza Improvements, Martha Schwartz Inc.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE – SELECTED WORKS Public Landscapes + Urban Design Congress Square; Portland, Maine Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island Downtown Crossing Business Improvement District Design Guideslines; Boston, Massachusetts Providence Bus Corridors, Providence, Rhode Island Fisher Hill Reservoir Park; Brookline, Massachusetts Kendall Square, Main Street + Point Park; Cambridge, Massachusetts (w HDR) Weymouth Braintree PWED Streetscape, Weymouth+ Braintree w Howard/Stein-Hudson traffic+civil) Central Square; East Boston, Massachusetts (w Howard/Stein-Hudson traffic+civil) Boston Crossroads Initiative, Causeway Street; Boston, Massachusetts (w Howard/Stein-Hudson traffic+civil) Roemer Plaza; Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts (w Chan Krieger/NBBJ) Outdoor Classrooms at 9 Boston Public Schools; Boston, Massachusetts East Main Street; Louisville, Kentucky North End Parks Rose Kennedy Greenway; Boston, Massachusetts; C|S|S Mystic Riverbend Park; Medford, Massachusetts; C|S|S Magazine Beach Park; Cambridge, Massachusetts; C|S|S Condor Street Urban Wild; East Boston, Massachusetts; Hargreaves Associates Commercial + On-structure Landscapes 56 Leonard Street; New York, New York (w Herzog & de Meuron) Park 5 Mixed-Use Development; , China (w GBBN Architects) 224 King West; Toronto, Ontario (w Architects Alliance) The Box Office; Providence, Rhode Island (w Distill Studio) One Sims Avenue; Providence, Rhode Island (w Truthbox Architects) New Street Condominiums; Boston, Massachusetts; C|S|S (w Steffian Bradley Architects) Millenium Point; New York, New York; Hargreaves Associates (w Polshek Partnership + Handel Architects) Georgetown Incinerator Mixed Use Complex; Washington DC; Hargreaves Associates (w Handel Architects) Institutional Landscapes + Master Planning MIT Childcare Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT West Annex Lot Interim Landscape Cambridge, Massachusetts Summer Star Nature Center, Boylston, Massachusetts Young Achievers School, Mattapan, Massachusetts The Steelyard; Providence, Rhode Island ‘Lover’s Road’ 55 kilometer coastline master plan, Zhuhai, China Vanke Research Campus; Shenzhen, China

SELECT PUBLISHED REVIEWS (BY OTHERS) Steel, Still, Robert Campbell Landscape Architecture Magazine. December 2011 ASLA Award Winners. Landscape Architecture Magazine. October 2011 The Steel Yard. Principles of Brownfield Regeneration, Justin Hollander, et. al.; Metropolis, January 2011 Shanghai Bund. Topos. October 2010

PUBLICATIONS “Water Connections: Wetlands for Science Instruction” in Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning & Design, 2002. Coauthored w Dr. Robert France Studio Works 1, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1993.