Linda Pollak, AIA, ASLA, is
an architect, educator, and a principal
in Marpillero Pollak Architects, a firm
selected in 2004 to be part of the NYC
Department of Design and Construction Design
Excellence Program. Pollak and her partner
brought Eib's Pond Park to the attention
of the Design Trust in 2001, and later
became fellows for two
projects,
Thresholds
of Eib's Pond Park and
Thresholds
of Eib's Pond Park 2.
Ms. Pollak has received grants and
fellowships, including from the American
Academy in Rome, National Endowment for
the Arts, NYSCA, NYFA, the Graham Foundation,
the Burden Foundation, the Wheelwright
Fellowship in Architecture, and the Milton
Fund of Harvard University for her research
on architecture's relationships with urban
landscape. She is co-author of
Inside Outside:
between architecture and landscape, and
has published essays in periodicals such
as
Lotus International, Praxis, Daidalos, and
Appendx,
and in books including:
Case:
Downsview and the
Landscape Urbanism Reader. She has
been a member of the architecture faculty
at Harvard University from 1992-2004, and
Rhode Island School of design from 1988-1992,
and also teaches in the Department of Landscape Architecture at University
of Pennsylvania. Ms. Pollak is Vice President of the Board of Directors
of Storefront for Art and Architecture.
