Craig Verzone

Verzone grew up in the suburbs of Lowell before he studied landscape architecture at Cornell University (Presidential Scholar 1990) and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MLAUD 1992-94). In 1998, he received the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy. He has taught at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, the Joint Masters Program of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is licensed as a landscape architect in Massachusetts since 1994 and a member of the Swiss Federation of Landscape Architects, FSAP. In 1995, he and Cristina Woods established the multi-disciplinary design studio Verzone Woods Architectes.

Companies

• Director The Food Urbanism Initiative (2010)
• Host and Producer Terragrams Podcast - Delivering the Landscape (2006)
• Partner Verzone Woods Architectes - Landscape, Urbanism, Architecture (1995)
• Jury Member of the Architectural Competition International Olympic Committee (2013 — 2014)
• International Evaluator EPFL (2013 — 2013)
• Team Leader Landworks (2012 — 2013)
• Visiting Professor Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2008 — 2008)
• Visiting Professor University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg (2007 — 2007)
• Myles H. Taylor Visting Professor University of Virginia School of Architecture (2006 — 2006)

Education

• BS Cornell University (1986 — 1990)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985 — 1986)
• High school Westford Academy (1981 — 1985)