Résumé

Draftsman/Designer, Lawrence Halprin and Associates, San Francisco, CA, 1954-1955.

Associate, Landscape Architects Associates, Urbana, IL, 1956.

Founding Partner, Sasaki, Walker and Associates, Boston, MA, and San Francisco, CA, 1959-1983; this firm later became known as the "SWA Group" and Walker became its Chairman of the Board and President from 1973-1983; SWA Group had offices in Sausalito, CA, Laguna Beach, CA, Houston, TX and Boston, MA, c. 1973.

Consulting Principal, SWA Group East, Boston, MA, 1976-1983;

Chairman of the Board and Partner, the Office of Peter Walker/Martha Schwartz, New York, NY and San Francisco. CA, 1983-1990.

Principal, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP), Berkeley, CA.

Teaching

Instructor, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1958-1959.

Visiting Critic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1959.

Supervisor and Instructor, Summer School for Landscape Architecture Students, SWA Group, Sausalito, CA, 1973;. This summer school was where Walker met his future wife, Martha Schwartz.

Visiting Critic in Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1975-1976.

Adjunct Professor in Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1976-; Walker served, while an Adjunct Professor, as Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard from 1978-1981.

Participant, The Michigan Workshop, University of Michigan (U of M), Ann Arbor, MI.

Lecturer, Dan Kiley Annual Lecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, Spring 1989.

Visiting Lecturer, University of Virginia (UVa), Charlottesville, VA, 1989.

Visiting Lecturer, University of Colorado, Denver, Denver, CO, 1989.

Speaker, Kajima/Harvard GSD Joint Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 1989.

Professional Activities

Member, American Sociaty of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

Member, Round Table and Panel Discussion on Environmental Planning, House and Home and Life Magazine, (both Time Magazine titles), New York, NY, 1961.

Speaker, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) meetings, 1965-1968.

Member, Panel Discussion on Attitudes on Quality, U.S. Savings and Loan League.

Speaker, Institute of Financial Education, University of Connecticut, School for Executive Development, Storrs, CT, 1969.

Member, SunsetMagazine/American Institute of Architects (AIA) Western Home Awards Jury, Menlo Park, CA, 1969.

Speaker, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA, 1975- .

Member, University of Washington Architectural Review Commission, Seattle, WA, 1975- .

Member, American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA Medal Jury, 1976.

Research Fellow, Urban Land Institute (ULI), Washington, DC, 1978.

Juror, American Academy, Rome, Italy, 1984.

Juror, Progressive Architecture Magazine Design Awards, Urban Design and Planning Category, New York, NY, 1984;

Speaker, International Federation of Landscape Architecture. 25th Annual Congress, Boston, MA, 07/1988.

Professional Awards

Fellow, American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA), 1975.

B.S., Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1955; graduate coursework, University of Illinois, Department of Landscape Architecture and City Planning, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1955-1956; Walker worked here with Professor Stanley White; Masters of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, 1957;

he taught at the GSD between 1958 and 1987

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