Marta Fry
Marta Fry Landscape Associates is a San Francisco-based urban design and landscape architecture studio founded in 1990 by Marta Fry. Believing that landscapes are one of the most potent and lasting forms of cultural expression, Fry leads the Studio in the exploration of the intersections and complex relationships between environmental, social, and cultural systems. Trained in landscape architecture and urban design, Fry graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with a MLA coupled with an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies and Planning. For Fry the field of landscape architecture encompasses the interweaving of art and science and provides an opportunity to work on widely diverse scales, from larger master planning visions and designs for urban infill and re-development districts to finer-grained singular design commissions. Based in San Francisco, the native Californian finds the Bay Area fertile grounds for exploration and innovation “it’s a region with a rich history of invention, a fertile and creative environment that transects disciplines and coupled with San Francisco’s cultural diversity, provides a rich milieu from which to draw.” For her, California continues to be a creatively emergent and progressive environment.
MFLA’s work is widely published and the Studio has garnered numerous awards from the AIA and ASLA. Fry actively participates in design juries and has taught design studios at Harvard’s GSD and UC Berkeley’s School of Environmental Design.