Educated
at Harverd's GSD (MLA 1988), Ms. Ruddick worked from
1988 to 1995 as a partner in Heintz/Ruddick Associates,
designing urban landscape projects in New York City
such as the recreation park at Battery Park City, the
Riverside Park Waterfront, and Stuyvesant Cove. Her
current practice, formed in 1995, has focused on issues
of water conservation and sustainability in landscape
planning and design. Whether proposing sustainable alternatives
to traditional residential landscape design or designing
an urban waterfront park that filters water through
constructed wetlands, her work considers the natural
systems of the site as a starting point for thinking
about a project.
Ruddick's work with sustainable master
planning in Colorado, New Mexico and China is at the
leading edge of environmentally responsible landscape
planning and design. Her schematic design for the Living
Water Park in Chengdu, Sichuan, has won the Waterfront
Center's design award for 1998, and the 1999 design
award from the journal Places and the Environmental
Design Research Association. She is currently working
on the site selection for the Hudson Rivers and Estuaries
Institute.
Ruddick is an Adjunct Professor in the University of
Pennsylvania's Landscape Architecture Department; she
has taught at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, Yale
University, and Parsons School of Design. Her practice,
located in Philadelphia, is grounded in practical issues
of how to get a project built; it also involves research
on waste water treatment systems, constructed wetland
design, and other alternative technologies.
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