Diana Balmori - Other Works

Other Works

Diana Balmori has been the principle landscape designer on many highly innovative projects, including the Master Plan for the Abandiobarra District in Bilbao, Spain, where her landscape designs run alongside the Nervion River and adjacent to the building of the Guggenheim Bilbao. She realized the extraordinary concept of Robert Smithson for a floating island around New York City, and is in early development for the building of a Public Administration Town in Korea.

In addition to her prolific work as Principal Designer for Balmori Associates, Dr. Balmori has written extensively on cities, environment, and the history of design. She links her practice with foundations and academic institutions. Her most recent book “A Landscape Manifesto “ is scheduled to be released to the public on September 2010. She has also written Tra Fiume e Cittá, Paesaggi, Progetti e Principi in 2009 about her particular view on waterfront projects. In 2009 the C3 book “ Balmori” was also released and chronicles her work, from sketches and writings to Master Plans and completed projects. . In 2007 she wrote “Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines for Sustainable Land Development”, co-authored by Yale colleague, Gaboury Benoit, and published in March, 2007 by Yale University Press.

Dr. Balmori has been honored by numerous institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Institute of Architects. In 2006, Dr. Balmori was appointed a Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, DC.; Dr. Balmori serves her second term on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. Dr. Balmori held the Davenport Chair of Architectural Design for the Spring 2004 at the Yale School of Architecture and was the William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design in the Fall 2008 at the Yale School of Architecture and she also teaches in the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She is a member of the American Historical Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects. She is a Fellow for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden & Landscape History Institute and Harvard University, as well as being on the Board at the Van Alen Institute in New York City and Minetta Brook, a Public Art Organization. She served as a Committee Member for the Comprehensive Design Landscape Plan for the White House in 1999. Dr. Balmori also served a four year term on the U.S Commission of Fine Arts in Washington D.C. In 2009, Diana Balmori's firm, Balmori Associates, moved into a new space in Meat Packing District, New York City. She is currently involved in various public projects in New York, and is in various stages of development of projects internationally. Diana Balmori lives and works in New York City.