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For over twenty years, Margie Ruddick has been recognized for work that integrates great landscape design with ecology. Margie's transformative design for New York's Queens Plaza has won awards for forging a new idea of nature in the city, where storm water, wind, sun, and habitat merge within an urban infrastructure to create a more sustainable vision of urban life. The new waterfront at Stapleton, in New York City, brings the harbor and city together in a park with cove and tidal wetlands, catalyzing the revitalization of this historic Staten Island district. Trenton Capital Park restores the connection between the city and the Delaware. Margie's international projects include the Shillim Institute and Retreat in the Western Ghats of India; she has remained with the project as a member of the Institute's board. She traveled to Chengdu, Sichuan, China in 1996 to lead a team designing the Living Water Park, the first ecological park in China that cleans polluted river water biologically.
Margie has taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Yale, The University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, and Schumacher College in England.Her many awards include the 1998 Waterfront Centre Award and the 1999 Places Design Award, for the Living Water Park; her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Institute of Architects. Margie received the 2002 Lewis Mumford Award from Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, and the 2006 Rachel Carson Women in Conservation Award from the National Audubon Society.
Margie was born in Montreal, grew up in New York City, and attended Bowdoin College and Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. She ran her own practice from 1988 to 2004, when she became a partner at the planning and design firm WRT. Since 2007 she has worked with WRT as a consultant, while focusing on teaching, lecturing, and writing. She lives in Philadelphia with her two children.