Kaki Martin

Ms. Martin is a landscape architect with over twenty years of practice experience. Her experience is based in public park and streetscape design in mostly urban conditions, institutional and open space master planning, and river edge landscapes. She has keen interest in and knowledge of the design and construction of public urban landscapes. She has extensive public design process experience and has led several multi-disciplinary projects in the public sector all of which included a wide range of stakeholder groups. Reaching consensus around the design of urban spaces that satisfy the programmatic needs of a constituent group in an artful and contemporary way is her primary goal. Recent work includes Fisher Hill Reservoir Park, West Newton Square and Streetscape, Inman Square in Cambridge MA, re-design of Kennedy Plaza in Providence RI, the Kendall Square Main Street streetscape and Longfellow Bridge median, and final design of Central Square Park in East Boston and several projects at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Ms. Martin is an adjunct professor at the Rhode Island School of Design and taught in a similar capacity at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Additionally, she has been a member of thesis advisory teams at the Boston Architectural College and continues to be a visiting design juror at many institutions including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. She is currently the Vice-Chair of the Cambridge Conservation Commission and a board member of the Community Design Resource Center of Boston.

Education

• Master Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1992 — 1995)
• BA Colby College (1986 — 1990)
• Loomis Chaffee (1982 — 1986)

Companies

• Partner Klopfer Martin Design Group (2007)
• Founding Board Member Good Sports Inc (2002)
• Adjunct Professor Rhode Island School of Design (2010 — 2019)
• Visting Design Critic Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2007 — 2009)
• Visiting Design Instructor Rhode Island School of Design Dept. of Landscape Architecture (2008 — 2008)
• Associate Crosby Schlessinger Smallridge (2003 — 2007)
• Designer Hargreaves Associates (1997 — 2000)
• Junior Designer Martha Schwartz Inc (1995 — 1997)