At MPA we connect practice to research, and publication is the hinge of this relationship. Our projects have been published around the world and in several languages, complementing the significant body of writing published by each of the two partners. This section includes writings categorized into the ‘About Us’ and ‘By Us’ lists below.
ABOUT US :
High Performance Landscape Guidelines: 21st Century Parks for NYC, Design Trust for Public Space with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, 2011
Active Design Guidelines: Promoting Physical Activity and Health in Design, New York City Department of Design and Construction, 2010
The L!brary Book: Design Colaborations in the Public Schools, The Bergen School Library,” Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, 2010
Ecological Urbanism, Situating Urban Ecological Experiments in Public Space,” Alexander J. Felson and Linda Pollak, 2010
Oculus, So Says…Linda Pollak, AIA, Affil. ASLA,” Kristen Richards, Winter 09/10
Installations By Architects: Experiments in Building and Design, Sarah Bonnemaison and Ronit Eisenbach, Princeton Architectural Press, 2009
The New York Times, The Doors Are Open, So Snoop Away,” Ariel Kaminer, October 4, 2009
The Architect’s Newspaper, “Water Works,” Jeff Byles, March 19, 2008
Wall Street Journal, “Library Branches in Full Flower,” Ada Louise Huxtable, May 17, 2008
Contemporary World Interiors, Susan Yelavich, 2007
Schooldesigner.com, mobile worktables,” L!BRARY bench/platform,” lighting/ceiling,” Queens Outdoor Classroom,” Marpillero Pollak Architects, 2006
New York Times, “Let in the Light…,” Fred A. Bernstein, March 23, 2006
Lotus International no.128, “The Landscape for Urban Reclamation,” 2006
Lotus international no.128, Art as Landscape as Architecture”, 2006
Contemporary Public Spaces, Aldo Aymonino, Skira, 2006
Integral Urbanism, Porosity,” Nan Ellin, 2006
Architectural Record, “Robin Hood Libraries,” September 2005
Lighting Gardens, Creative Solutions for Today’s Gardens, Osborne and Wooster, 2005
Creating the New American Townhouse, “Duane Street Town House,” Alexander Gorlin, Rizzoli, 2005
Contract Magazine, “Reading Room,” Katie Weeks, June 2004
Index, American Academy in Rome, “Live Work Loft,” June 2004
Places, A Forum of Environmental Design, Vol. 16, #1, “Outdoor Classrooms,” Chris Sensenig, April 2004
Architectural Record, Interiors issue, Clifford Pearson, “Live/Work Loft,” September 2003
Architectural Design Magazine, “Home Front: New Developments in Housing,” August 2003
Wood Design Awards “Outdoor Classrooms,” Don Griffith, 2003
Dictionary of Today’s Landscape Designers, Pierluigi Nicolin, Skira 2003
Landscape Architecture Magazine, “ASLA Awards,” October 2002
Staten Island Advance, “National Recognition for Outdoor Classroom,” May 2002
Design Strategies for Hell’s Kitchen, Plunz and Smiley eds., 2002
10 Projects: Design Trust for Public Space – Improving Public Space for All New Yorkers, “Saving Open Space: Thresholds of Eibs Pond Park,” 2002
Oculus vol. 64, #1, “Jacob Riis Houses Youth & Community Center,” September 2001
Oculus vol. 64, #1, “Marked Landscapes: Eibs Pond Park,” Jayne Merkel, September 2001
On the Nature of Things: “MPArchitects’ Urban Morphology,” Gavin Keeney, 2001
Oculus vol. 63, #4, “Architecture Awards / Eibs Pond Park Pavilion,” Jayne Merkel, December 2000
Harvard Design Magazine, “Eib’s Pond Park,” Winter 2000
New York Times, “Coaxing a Staten Island Walden Back to Idyllic Splendor,” Mac Griswold, September 2000
Daidalos No 73, “Strategies for Building City Landscape,” August 1999
Daidalos No 71, “Strategic Thresholds, Learning from Dream Interpretation,” May 1999
Archis, “Four Young Architects in New York,” C. Volkman & L. Widder, Fall 1999
Sotheby’s Domain, “Roof Garden as Urban Retreat,” September 1998
Competitions, “National Art and Design Street Tree Competition,” Gavin Keeney, May 1999
House and Garden, “Defining Moments,” Wendy Moonan, April 1998
Harvard Architecture Review, “BCA Space: Gateway Project,” 1998
Swiss Engineer & Architect, “Young Architects from New York,” Nina Rappaport, November 1997
Journal of Architectural Education, “Urban Garden,” February 1997
Design Landscape Forum “Roof Terrace,” Spacemaker Press, 1997
Daidalos N° 63, “In the Flatland; Projects by Linda Pollak,” Lynnette Widder, 1997
Pages Paysages N° 6, “Contained Nature,” Catherine Mosbach, 1997
New York Times, “A Detailed Art Deco Renovation Built Inch by Painstaking Inch,” Suzanne Slesin, February 1996
Interior Design Magazine, “A Small Package Contains Many Beautiful Things,” September 1995
L’ARCA Journal, Young American Architects, May 1994
Oculus vol. 56, “Park for Boston’s South End,” 1994
Casabella, “Redefinition of a Marginal Site in Manhattan,” January 1993
Art New England, “Public Art: A Futurist Vision,” April 1991
Art in America, “Report from Boston: Art Around the Hub,” Martha Buskirk, June 1990
BY US :
LP, co-author with Alexander J. Felson, “Situating Urban Ecological Experiments in Public Space,” Ecological Urbanism, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Alexander J. Felson and Linda Pollak, 2010
LP, “Courtyards,” Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Reconstructing Urban Landscapes, Yale University Press, 2009
LP, “Matrix Landscape: Construction of Identity in the Large Park”, Large Parks, Princeton Architectural Press, 9/2007
SM, “Apparatus v. Object,”Constellations: Constructing Urban Design Practices, Columbia University, GSAPP, 2007
LP, “Constructed Ground: Questions of Scale,”The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
SM, Environmental Refractions: James Carpenter, Birkhauser/Princeton Architectural Press, 2006
LP, “The Landscape for Urban Reclamation,” Lotus International n.128, 2006
SM, “Art as Landscape as Architecture,” Lotus International n.128, 2006
LP & SM, “Art and Landscape In Difficult Places,” Lotus International n.128, 2006
SM, “And: Teaching Landscape in Architecture.” 30-60-90 n. 07, 9/2004
LP, “Fresh Kills–Sublime Matters,”Praxis 4: Landscapes, 2004
SM, “Photo/Drawings as Clues,” Mary Miss, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004
LP, “Zaha Hadid Laboratory,” Constructs, Fall 2002
LP, “Interdisciplinarity in the Downsview Park Competition Teams” CASE: Downsview Park, J. Czerniak, ed., 3/2002
SM, “Architecture as Apparatus” Process n.4, Fall 2001
LP, “Space of Flows: fountain as urban apparatus” Lotus International, vol. 102, 2/2000
LP, co-author with Anita Berrizbeitia, Inside/Outside: Projects between Architecture and Landscape, Rockport Publications, 1999, 2003
SM,“Strategic Thresholds: Learning from Dream Interpretation,” Daidalos n. 71, April 1999.
LP, “American Ground: 4 kinds of disturbances,”Lotus International vol.100, Spring 1999
LP, “Pieces of the World: Yves Brunier’s Landscape Representations”: Storefront for Art and Architecture Newsletter, Spring 1999
LP, “Partially Open Spaces [in the paintings of Berthe Morisot” target=”_blank”>” Appendx 4, 1999
LP, “Beyond the Box,” Modulus n. 25,1999.
SM, “Tectonic Masks” Lotus International n.102, 1998
LP, “Elevating Nature: the roof garden as urban retreat,”Domain, Fall 1998
SM, “Constructing Space” Daidalos n. 67, 3/1998
SM, “Metropolitan Languages” “42nd Street and Other Stories” “AMNH Inside Narratives” Lotus International n.97, 1997
LP, “Building City Landscape: Questions of Scale,” Works-in-Progress, RISD, Fall 1997
LP, “Pieces of the World: Nature-Object/Nature-Space” Daidalos n.65, 9/1997
LP, “Review Essay on Feminism and Geography, by Gillian Rose” Harvard Design Magazine, Spring 1997
SM, “Photo/Drawings as Clues,” Mary Miss Photo/Drawings, Des Moines Art Center, 1996-97
SM, “Four Projects by Mary Miss” A+U n. 315, 12/1996
SM, “Enric Miralles: Dream-work / About Figures” Korean Architect, n. 130, 3/1996
SM, “Tokyo International Forum: Playing the Score,”Casabella n. 625, 7/1995
LP, “Constructing Ground: Notes on Urban Nature Space,” Surface, vol. I UCLA, 1995
LP, “Everyday Outdoor Spaces,” Architronic: Urban Stratagems & Gender Propositions, vol. 5, n. 1, 1995
LP, “Practices: Response to a text by Richard Sennett” Harvard GSD News, Winter/Spring 1995
LP/SM, “Cut Space: Michael Heizer & Gordon Matta-Clark” Casabella #618 12/1994
LP, “Reflections on a Lecture by Vittorio Gregotti” Harvard GSD News, Winter/Spring 1994
SM, “The Well-tempered Transcendentalism of Steven Holl” Casabella n. 604, 9/1993
SM, “Learning from Chaco Canyon,” “Interview with Mary Miss,” “Empire State Plaza Installation” Progex n.9, 1/1993
LP, “Constructing Ground or don’t sentimentalize outdoor space” Harvard GSD News, Winter/Spring 1993
LP, “Limited Interventions: Paradigms for the Urban Garden,” Public Art Issues 3, Urban Paradise
LP, “Figuring Ground / Site as Program,” Progex, Installations USA, Issue #9, 1/1993
SM, “The Last Generation: figuration/presentation/production” Casabella n. 586-587, 1/1992
SM, “Gehry in Sequence,” Casabella n. 581, 7/1991
SM, “The Landing of Icarus,” Phalaris 5/1991
SM, “New York wins in Tokyo?” Casabella n. 565, 2/1990
SM, “Art-as-Architecture-as-Town,” Ottagono n.93, 12/1989 [Reprinted in Arquitectura n.285, 7-8/1990]
SM, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Architecture,” Rassegna n.36, 12/1988
SM, “South Street Seaport: an Inside Narrative,” Lotus International n.46, 4/1985
SM, “Renaissance and Illusion: Battery Park City & Other Stories,” Casabella n.507, 11/1984
SM, “Skyline. Himmelslinie,” Idee Prozess Ergebnis, IBA Berlin, 1984
SM, “New Italian Regionalism – Mitchell Giurgola in Friuli,” Skyline, 2/1983
SM, “Production of the Project, Production of the Building,” Lotus International n.37, 1/1983
SM, “L’Area Stucky. Un’Esperienza di Didattica,” Architecture Institute of Venice, 1983
SM, “Statement” Typology and Morphogenesis, Biennale di Venezia, 1978