![]() Matthew is a landscape and urban designer at James Corner Field Operations. Tsutomu speaks fluent English and Japanese. Tsutomu earned his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Bachelor of Agriculture degree from the University of Tokyo. He has also worked for Ohtori Consultants Environmental Design Institute in Osaka, Japan on the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore and the Hoshigaoka Terrace in Japan and for Nikken Sekkei Civil Engineering on the Kobe Central Wholesale Market in Kobe, Japan. Prior to joining Field Operations, Tsutomu won a fellowship from OLIN, where he worked on the National Palace Museum in Taiwan the Comcast Center in Philadelphia and the Orange County Great Park Competition for Irvine, CA. He was the senior designer for South Park Plaza, part of London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park legacy transformation the lead designer for the pool decks and streetscapes at the MGM Mirage City Center in Las Vegas, which opened in 2010 and the lead designer for Beekman Street Plaza in downtown Manhattan. Previously, Tsutomu was a senior designer for Domino Park in Brooklyn and for Phase 1 of the 4,500-acre Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, which involved a large lake expansion and associated new lake edges, circulation, parking, and structures. Tsutomu’s excellent technical skills and efficient, careful work on all levels of design have been applied to many of the office’s projects, most recently on guiding Seattle’s Central Waterfront from design into construction. Tsutomu is a registered landscape architect and urban designer at James Corner Field Operations, where he is currently the Project Manager for multiple projects on the Princeton University campus. He sits on the Board of the Urban Design Forum, the Government Advisory Board of Shenzhen, and is an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he has served on the faculty since 1989, and as Professor and Chairman 2000–2013. E.h.) from the Technical University of Munich and a Doctor of Design (honoris causa) from Manchester Metropolitan University. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Design an Honorary Doctorate in Architecture and Engineering (Dr.-Ing. (First Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University an M.L.A./U.Des. ![]() He was named by TIME as one of “Ten Most Influential Designers ” by Fast Company as one of the “Top 50 Innovators ” and has been featured in many prominent publications. His books include The High Line: Foreseen/Unforeseen (Phaidon, 2015), The Landscape Imagination (Princeton, 2014) Recovering Landscape (Princeton, 1999), and Taking Measures Across the American Landscape (Yale, 1996). His work has been published broadly and exhibited at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, the National Building Museum, the Royal Academy of Art in London, and the Venice Biennale. James has been recognized with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, the Daimler-Chrysler Design Excellence Award, and the AA&D Black Pencil Award. Important public realm design projects include New York’s highly-acclaimed High Line London’s South Park at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Santa Monica’s Tongva Park Chicago’s Navy Pier Cleveland’s Public Square Seattle’s Central Waterfront San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops Hong Kong’s Salisbury Garden and Avenue of the Stars Doha’s new Arts and Cultural District and Shenzhen’s Master Plan for the City of Qianhai. He has devoted the past 30 years to advancing the field of landscape architecture and urbanism, primarily through his leadership on high-visibility, complex urban projects around the world, as well as through teaching, public speaking, and writing. James Corner is Founder and CEO of James Corner Field Operations.
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