Founder and principal of James Corner Field Operations, New York City, James Corner’s designs—including the High Line in Manhattan and Freshkills Park on Staten Island—have fundamentally changed the field of landscape architecture.

Corner is the Department Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. James Corner and Field Operations were the 2010 recipients of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. In 2004, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Design, and in 2000 the Daimler-Chrysler Design Award for Innovative Design and the Architectural League of New York Award.

Tickets are limited and must be reserved in advance; tickets can be reserved in late November online, in person at the door, or by phone: 617-278-5156. Museum admission: $15; Seniors $12; Students $5; free for members.

Image: High Line, New York, NY. Iwan Baan ©2009.

Thursday evening programming is supported in part by an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts. The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.