Speakers

Mary Margaret Jones, FASLA, FAAR
Senior Principal & President, Hargreaves Associates


Mary Margaret JonesMary Margaret Jones is Senior Principal and President of Hargreaves Associates, a landscape architecture and planning firm renowned for its strong design and innovative work on reclaimed urban sites, waterfronts and university campuses. The firm's work has received dozens of national and international design awards since its inception in 1985 and is published and exhibited internationally. As president, Ms. Jones leads the firm's three offices in San Francisco, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has been the Principal-in-Charge for the 2012 London Olympics Parklands, the transformation of the University of Cincinnati's campus, Discovery Green in Houston, Texas, and Crissy Field in San Francisco. Ms. Jones lectures widely to university and professional institutions, has served on numerous juries, and is a past Visiting Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is an 'Outstanding Alumnus' of Texas A&M University College of Environmental Design and a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Forum for Urban Design, the Design Futures Council, and the American Academy in Rome as well as a member of the National Advisory Council for the Mayors' Institute on City Design.  Ms. Jones is Chair of the Board of the American Academy in Rome and Vice President of the Board of ODC Dance in San Francisco. She is currently leading the firm's design for a 70-acre park in downtown Oklahoma City, the redesign of Love Park in Philadelphia, a new quad for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a new 30-acre park in the heart of Moscow, Russia. 

 

Discovery Green. Photo by Paul Hester