Mark Klopfer
Principal, FASLA, AIA, LEED AP (he/him)
Mark Klopfer is a LEED accredited, registered landscape architect and architect with over twenty-five years of practice experience. His experience is based in public building, housing, and campus site design, public park, and on-structure landscapes. Mark is a Professor of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology and has been a member of the landscape and architecture design faculties at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cornell University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was the 2000-2001 Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize winner at the American Academy in Rome.
His interests lie in the interface of architecture and landscape, from the human scale of rooms and gardens to the urban scale of neighborhoods and cities. Allowing people to interpret and understand a contemporary landscape with its cultural and historical legacy is a primary intention in Mark’s work.
“Mark translated our dreams into a design that both yielded to the site’s history and rose to its aspirations.”
— Ms. Drake Patton
Former Executive Director, The Steel Yard
Qualifications
Registration and Licensure
Landscape Architect
MA #1164
RI #437
NY #002141
Registered Architect
MA #31411
VA #0401 008798
NCARB #65854
Council of Landscape Arch. Registration Boards (CLARB) Certification #6361
LEED Accredited Professional
Education
University of Virginia
Master of Landscape Architecture
Cornell University
Bachelor of Architecture
Select Honors and Awards
2019
Merit Award, BSLA, Central Square East Boston
2018
Merit Award, BSLA, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
Merit Award, BSLA, Suffolk University, Roemer Plaza
Architecture Masterprize, Landscape Architecture - Public, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
2017
Merit Award, BSLA, Kennedy Plaza
Honor Award, BSLA, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
American Architecture Prize, Landscape Architecture - Installations & Structures, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
2016
Citation Award, Institutional Work, American Institute of Architects New England, Roemer Plaza, Suffolk University
Merit Award, American Institute of Architects New England, Historic Preservation + Adaptive Reuse, Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
2013
Silver Medal, Award of Urban Design Excellence, Rudy Bruner Foundation, The Steel Yard
2012
Best Urban Regeneration Project in Asia, MIPIM Asia, Shanghai Bund (w/CKS, SMEDI)
The Senator John H Chafee Conservation Leadership Award, Environmental Council of Rhode Island, The Steel Yard
2011
Honor Award for Design, General Design, American Society of Landscape Architects, The Steel Yard
The Rhody Award, Landscape Preservation, RI Historical Preservation & Heritage Commision, The Steel Yard
Great Places Award for Design, Environmental Design Research Association, The Steel Yard
Honor Award, BSLA, The Steel Yard
2010
Reuse and Neighborhood Preservation Award - Providence Preservation Society, The Steel Yard
2009
Merit Award, BSLA, Signature Flight General Aviation Facility
2008
First Place in International Competition, Shanghai Bund Waterfront, Shanghai, China. In collaboration with Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, Commission for Project for Expo 2010
2006
Merit Award, Accessible Design, Massachusetts Architectural Access Board, Bromley Park/Heath Street
Award for Excellence, American Society of Landscape Architects, Court Square Press, LANDWORKS Studio
Mark’s News
Fun Facts
Never seen without // Tousled Hair
Never misses // A Travel Opportunity
Previously lived in // Rome
Fueled by // A Morning Cappuccino, Always
Favorite landscape space // Shishendo, Kyoto