Carol Macht
Carol Macht, FASLA, RLA, is a landscape architect and founding partner of Hord Coplan Macht (HCM), a multidisciplinary design firm that she and her two architect partners established in 1977 in Baltimore, Maryland. Today, the 325-person design practice includes work in education, healthcare, housing, parks, and memorials, as well as residential gardens. HCM’s landscape projects have earned numerous design awards, and Ms. Macht has received the Award of Distinction from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design in 2016, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Maryland chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2018. Ms. Macht was honored to have one of her garden designs featured in The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Garden Dialogues program.
Recognized among the ‘Top 100 Women in Business’ by The Maryland Daily Record, she was appointed to the State of Maryland Architectural Review Board by three governors, serving from 1998 to 2014. She served on the founding boards of the Baltimore Design School and Baltimore Tree Trust, and she has served as a trustee of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Ms. Macht, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, holds a B.A, with a major in architecture, from Washington University and an M.L.A. from the University of Michigan. She has worked with Loyola University Maryland and Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, for more than fifteen years as their campus landscape architect. She collaborated with Thomas Balsley Associates to design West Shore Park at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor and led the historic renovation design of South Capitol Park at the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Statement:
I am delighted to support the Oberlander Prize which, will have a significant impact on the appreciation, understanding, and awareness of landscape architecture and its inventive professionals. Our lives are enriched and inspired by landscape architecture—a wonderful melding of art, design, nature, technology, science, and culture—through which are created great places that are rejuvenating, restorative, and inspiring. With this prize, many will come to recognize the role our profession plays in these efforts.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is the perfect namesake for this prize. Her path-finding and brilliant career of great design, collaboration, innovation, and dedication to the community is an inspiration to all designers and those who strive, in her words, to “achieve a fit between the building form and the land.”