Landscape Design

Field Operations

Founded in 1998 by James Corner, Field Operations is a landscape and urban design practice with offices in New York and Philadelphia. The firm’s work includes design for cities, large public parks, and mixed-used urban developments, often in collaboration with leading architects, engineers, ecologists, and artists. Field Operations is known for their preservation of large-scale natural resources and the reclamation of derelict sites such as brownfields and landfills and other post-industrial landscapes for new public uses and private development. The firm is currently working on the conversion of the High Line, an abandoned elevated railway that runs along the West Side of Manhattan, into a public promenade in collaboration with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, winners of the 2005 National Design Award for architecture. Field Operations is also creating parkland on the former Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, NY. Their work has been published and exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Bienniale; the Royal College of Art, London; and the Museum of Modern Art.