Pierscape at Navy Pier Phase II Design Team Organization + ...
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Tom Leader<br />
Tom Leader Studio<br />
Lead, Landscape Architecture<br />
<strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> Ecosystem<br />
11<br />
We need to become students<br />
of the public th<strong>at</strong> visits<br />
<strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> and the lake on which<br />
it rests so we can intertwine<br />
their threads. —Tom Leader<br />
Tom Leader Studio will help the design team to understand <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> as an<br />
ecosystem and as a gener<strong>at</strong>or of communal social activity and diversity. By seeking<br />
ways to cultiv<strong>at</strong>e the n<strong>at</strong>ural aqu<strong>at</strong>ic systems and seasonal hydrology of the<br />
Lake Michigan shoreline, the inherent rel<strong>at</strong>ionship to w<strong>at</strong>er can be made present<br />
and involving to visitors. The greenscape will consider not only plantings, but also ice,<br />
mist, sun, and shelter. Visitors to <strong>Navy</strong> <strong>Pier</strong> will experience threads of open space,<br />
green space, and w<strong>at</strong>er space.<br />
Tom Leader founded Tom Leader studio in 2001 for the practice of landscape<br />
architecture. He has twenty-five years of professional experience, sixteen of which<br />
were spent as a partner in the firm of Peter Walker and Partners, designing<br />
and building award-winning landscape projects throughout the U.S. and the world.<br />
As founder and principal, Tom Leader has played a significant role in all projects<br />
represented the firm portfolio. He will serve as a member of our core team.<br />
Educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
Harvard University Gradu<strong>at</strong>e School of <strong>Design</strong><br />
Master of Landscape Architecture<br />
University of California <strong>at</strong> Berkeley<br />
BA Landscape Architecture<br />
Selected Recognition<br />
Cooper Hewitt N<strong>at</strong>ional <strong>Design</strong> Awards, finalist, 2011<br />
Cooper Hewitt N<strong>at</strong>ional <strong>Design</strong> Museum, <strong>Design</strong> Triennial “<strong>Design</strong> Life Now,” 2006<br />
MoMA “Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape,” 2005<br />
New York Times, Arts, “Avant Gardens”— Break Out install<strong>at</strong>ion, 2004<br />
Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, 1989<br />
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art “Revel<strong>at</strong>ory Landscapes,” 2001<br />
San Francisco Prize, “Centering on the Civic,” 1996<br />
World Landscape Architecture, flagship issue, RiverFirst, 2011<br />
Books<br />
Monograph: Tom Leader Studio: Three Projects<br />
Princeton Architectural Press, 2010<br />
Teaching<br />
The Ohio St<strong>at</strong>e University, Knowlton School of Architecture<br />
Arthur Glimcher Distinguished Visiting Professor<br />
University of Southern California, School of Architecture<br />
BrownLab Gradu<strong>at</strong>e <strong>Design</strong> Studio
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