Clare Cooper Marcus is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the Principal of Healing Landscapes, a consulting firm that specializes in an evidence-based design approach to the programming, design, and evaluation of outdoor spaces in community and healthcare settings. Professor Marcus is internationally…

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• Sub-consultant to Bay Tree Design, Landscape Architects, Berkeley CA and Perkins Eastman Architect on conceptual and schematic design phases of SAHA (Satellite Affordable Housing Associates) and CIA (Choice in Aging) 4 acre campus in Pleasant Hill CA, consisting of affordable senior housing, adult day care, Montessori preschool, and community garden

• Consulting with Dillingham Associates Landscape Architects, Berkeley, CA on design of a garden for the hospice wing at Redwood Gardens retirement community, Mill Valley, CA

• Consulting with PGA Design, Oakland, CA on the design of a garden for a hospice at the Correctional Facility for men, Vacaville, CA

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• 2020    CELA Lifetime Achievement Award, The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture

• 2019    Lifetime Achievement Award, Center for Health Design

• 2010    ASLA Honor Award, Research Category, as part of team headed by Professor Susan Rodiek, Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, for DVD-based educational program — Access to Nature for Older Adults: Promoting Health through Landscape Design

• 2010    Honorary ASLA

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• 2018  “Therapeutic landscapes” in Ann Sloan Devlin, Environmental Psychology and Human Wellbeing: Effects of Built and Natural Settings. Cambridge, MA. Academic Press

• 2014    Clare Cooper Marcus and Naomi Sachs, “The Salutogenic City”, in World Health Design. 7 (4): 18-2

• 2014  “Therapeutic Landscapes”,  Clare Cooper Marcus in conversation with Virginia Burt and Linda Irvine, Landscapes  – Landscape Architecture in Canada, Vol. 16, no. 2, summer

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Clare Cooper Marcus – a personal experience of the healing landscape of a remote island in Scotland. See: http://www.ionadreaming.com

Read more Iona Dreaming:The Healing Power of Place – A Memoir

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