Matthew Wong

Matthew is a landscape and urban designer at James Corner Field Operations. He is currently working on Pier 70, a 28-acre mixed-use development and waterfront park in San Francisco, and Project Bloomhouse, a 52-acre Master Plan in East Palo Alto. He has also worked on the Oakland A’s Ballpark and Master Plan, San Pedro Public Market in Los Angeles, and Oyster Point Waterfront Park in South San Francisco.

Before joining Field Operations, Matthew worked for SCAPE in New York and Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Cambridge. While at MVVA, Matthew worked on Children’s Wharf Park in Boston. Prior to graduate school, he worked for the Office of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis, where he played an integral role in the development of a campus-wide Framework Plan. He is experienced in working from the master plan level down to the scale of carefully detailed materials.

Matthew earned his Master of Landscape Architecture degree from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Norman T. Newton Prize, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture degree with honors from the University of California, Davis. He has held various teaching and research assistant positions at the graduate and undergraduate levels. As a Penny White Fellow, he studied agricultural production and hydrologic infrastructures along the New River and Salton Sea in the deserts of southern California. He is fluent in Spanish and English.