Recognizing that attention to unique subtleties is his inspiration for design and that urban life feeds his need for community, Martin Poirier has, for 30 years, fused his practice of landscape architecture with urbanity, social purpose, and aesthetics. His designs strive to shape expressive places that people really “connect with” and his career has been filled with challenging and varied design assignments – bolstered by the fact that he has lived and worked in the downtown centers of Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cambridge, and now San Diego. Poirier’s work has focused on places of dense human interaction – be it a park, college campus, or city center – where the rigorous analysis of the site and a disciplined program for space are masterfully transformed into remarkable landscapes. Poirier holds degrees in Landscape Architecture from Michigan State University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is currently the Vice President of Spurlock Poirier Landscape Architects.

Artist’s Statement
"Camino del Mar Bridge is a technical presentation drawing to illustrate the design of a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Camino del Mar and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad tracks in Del Mar, California. I believe that the physical presence of drawing informs my space making by aiding my understanding of scale and proportion through a controlled representational abstraction."