Books

 “Allegheny Riverfront Park / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.” in  Berrizbeitia, Anita. Inside outside : between architecture and landscape / Anita  Berrizbeitia and Linda Pollak. Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers ; Cincinnati, Ohio : Distributed to the book trade and art trade in the United States by North Light Books, c1999.   SB 472 .B477 1999.

Corner, James. Taking measures across the American landscape / James Corner, essays, drawings, and commentary ; Alex MacLean, photographs; foreword by Michael Van Valkenburgh.   TR660.5 .C67 1996.

Eudoxia / Michael Van Valkenburgh  in Lyall, Sutherland. Designing the new landscape/New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1991.  On Reserve.

Tankard, Judith B. Gertrude Jekyll : a vision of garden and wood / Judith B. Tankard and Michael R. Van Valkenburgh ; foreword by Jane Brown.  New York : H.N. Abrams, Inc., 1989.  (Available through Inter-Library Loan).

Built landscapes : gardens in the Northeast : gardens by Beatrix Farrand, Fletcher Steele, James Rose, A.E. Bye, Dan Kiley / photographs by Alan Ward ; curator, Michael Van Valkenburgh.  SB466.U65 N753 1986.

Hodges, Brooke, ed.  Design with the land; the landscape architecture of Michael Van Valkenburgh.  Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.  On Reserve.

Articles (Selected from 1992-2001)

“The Pittsburg weddings” / Ian Thompson. Landscape design 2001 Mar., n.298, p.13-15.

Two artist-landscape architect collaborations: Allegheny Riverfront Park by M. Van Valkenburgh and Ann Hamilton, and Agnes R. Katz Plaza by Dan Kiley and Louise Bourgeois.

Pearson, Clifford A. "Michael Van Valkenburgh Takes a Walk Over the Water's Edge in his Design for Pittsburgh's Allegheny Riverfront Park." Architectural Record, March 2000.

“Mission possible: Wellesley College enlists landscape architects to restore pedestrian sovereignty to its campus” William E. Welsh. Landscape architecture 2000 Aug., v.90, n.8, p.44,46,48-49.
                    Proposed master plan for the restoration of Olmsted's original campus (1921), by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

 “A Dallas garden [Michael Van Valkenburgh]” / Jane Brown Gillette. Land forum 2001, n.10, p.62-67.

“Dialectic in a landscape: a new master plan for a modernist masterpiece reinterprets the dialogue between architecture and landscape [Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago]” / Paul Bennett.Landscape architecture 1999 Oct., v.89, n.10, p.56-59,82-85.
                    Landscape architects: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates with Peter Lindsay Schaudt Landscape Architecture.

“Island people” / Susan Zevon. House beautiful 1999 June, v.141, n.6, p.132-[137].
                    Vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for an American family currently living most of the year in London.

“Michael” / Jane Brown Gillette. Landscape architecture 1998 Feb., v.88, n.2, p.[66]-73,86-87,89-90.
                    Profile of landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh.

“Turning point: Michael Van Valkenburgh's collaboration on a compact courtyard brings a new subtlety to his work” Andrea Oppenheimer Dean. Landscape architecture 1998 Oct., v.88, n.10, p.48,[50]-55.

“Listening to landscape architects: what do they think of architects?” / Andrea O. Dean.
Architectural record 1997 Aug., v.185, n.8, p.44-49,160,162.

“On the cutting edge [Michael van Valkenburgh]” / Denise Otis. Garden design 1997 Jan.-Mar., v.16, n.1, p.72-81.

"Progressive Architecture Awards: Allegheny Riverfront Park," Architecture, January 1997.

“Collezione di architetture: città di Columbus, Indiana”. Abitare 1994 Mar., n.327, p.[145]-155.
                    Text in Italian and English; summaries in French, German, Japanese and Spanish in insert. A photo essay of distinctive modern
                    buildings. Features Mill Race Park (1993), the newest project.  Architects: Stanley Saitowitz Office; Landscape architect: Michael
                    Van Valkenburgh.

“French connection” / Philippe Madec.  Landscape architecture 1994 Oct., v.84, n.10, p.[90]-95.
                    Courtyard at 50, avenue Montaigne, Paris, an office-retail complex. Landscape architect: Michael Van Valkenburgh.

“The horticultural reconnection” / Mac Griswold. Landscape architecture 1994 May, v.84, n.5, p.46-53.
                    On landscape architects' rediscovery of horticulture. Discussion of the work of Michael Van Valkenburgh and Ron Lutsko.

“Long-term dividends” / Lee Fleming. Garden design 1993 Sept.-Oct., v.12, n.4, p.[38]-49.
                    Three gardens designs for one family, by Michael Van Valkenburgh: 2 oceanfront gardens and a suburban back yard.

“Sculpture garden par excellence” / Robert E. Engstrom. Urban land 1993 Apr., v.52, n.4, p.10,14.
                    On the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, designed in phases between 1988 and 1993. Landscape architect for Phase Two: Michael
                    Van Valkenburgh. The 1988 garden was designed by Peter Rothschild and architect Edward Larrabee Barnes.

“Avant-garde ecology” / Elsa Leviseur. Architectural review 1992 Sept., v.191, n.1147, p.53-58.
                    Features four Southern California landscape projects by the following landscape architects: Isamu Noguchi, Peter Walker, Isabelle
                    Greene and Michael Van Valkenburgh.

“The dream team: three experts reconsider one suburban garden” / Michael Leccese. Garden design 1992 Sept.-Oct., v.11, n.4, p.[60]-65.
                    Landscape architects James van Sweden, Michael van Valkenburgh, and Warren Byrd converged to redesign a suburban garden in
                    Chevy Chase, Md.

Web Sites

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc.   www.mvvainc.com/
Highlights many projects including his Brooklyn Bridge Park Master Plan.

GSD Profile on Michael Van Valkenburgh at Harvard where he is the Charles Elliot Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture.www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/vanvalkenburgh/index.html
His CV, course offerings, and selected projects are available.