Rosie Memorial Winning Design Team

Susan Schwartzenberg is a photographer/visual artist. Her work ranges from the design of books and installations, to public art and curated exhibitions. Her themes include biography, memorial and studies of urban life and history. She spent the academic year 1998-99 as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University where she focused her attention on the theories and design of the urban environment, specifically exploring narrative approaches to the design of landscape and streetscape. She has a particular interest in the dynamic between the physical environment and personal existence.

Schwartzenberg is also collaborating on a project with author Rebecca Solnit; Hollow City: Gentrification and the Eviction of Culture, a book of texts and photographs exploring the transformed nature of San Francisco in the face of recent grand scale redevelopment projects (scheduled to be published by Verso in the Fall of 2000).

Ms. Schwartzenberg's other recent public projects include; Cento: a Market Street Journal (1996), published by the San Francisco Art Commission, which juxtaposed urban history with contemporary stories in an experimental guidebook, journal, and map, and the McFarland Memorial, (1998), a collaboration with landscape architect Alan Berger, a public plaza linking biography and testimonial in Phoenix Arizona. She recently returned to the Exploratorium, a museum of science and art in San Francisco, where her new position is Senior Artist.

Cheryl Barton is a Landscape Architect practicing in San Francisco. She received her Master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Prior to founding The Office of Cheryl Barton, she was a Principal and Director of the Design Studio at EDAW Inc., in San Francisco.

Integrating the ideas of art, architecture and landscape, her firm's award-winning design work extends traditional notions of landscape architecture. The design philosophy is strongly site specific - seeking to establish compelling places that integrate natural and cultural realms. Context, history and contemporary design strategies are employed to inform the making of landscapes and to clarify and animate space. Landscape is addressed as a powerful medium that can transform human values as well as create physical settings. The firm is engaged in the creation of livable and even transformational places from the scale of the community to the scale of the garden.

The firm's work has been published in Process Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Landscape Journal, Urban Land International, the San Francisco Examiner, the Los Angeles Times and Business Week. It has also been exhibited at Wave Hill in New York and the M. H. de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Current projects, in addition to the Rosie the Riveter Memorial, include Yerba Buena Lane, Rincon Park and Willie Mays Plaza in San Francisco, the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito and McEnery Park in San Jose.

For more information, please go to the Memorial Design Page.