Julie Moir Messervy
Julie Moir Messervy’s vision for composing landscapes of beauty and meaning is furthering the evolution of landscape design and changing the way people create and enjoy their outdoor surroundings. With over three decades of experience, six books, and numerous high-profile lectures, Messervy is an innovative leader in landscape and garden design theory and practice.
Projects
Messervy’s imaginative landscape design work has delighted clients including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Marshall Field’s, Fidelity Investments, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Kansas City Art Institute, and scores of residential clients.
The Toronto Music Garden
In 1999, Messervy completed the award-winning Toronto Music Garden, a collaboration with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the City of Toronto to create a three-acre public park based on the “First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello” by J.S. Bach. In 2005, the Toronto Music Garden received a Leonardo Da Vinci award for innovation and creativity. A new book about the Toronto Music Garden is now available from the Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio.
Acclaimed Author and Lecturer
Messervy’s most recent book, The Toronto Music Garden: Inspired by Bach, is an in-depth guide to the conception and creation of this award-winning public garden. Her 2009 book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, received the Garden Writers Association 2010 Gold Medal for Best Book Writing. In 2006, Messervy partnered with architect Sarah Susanka to write Outside the Not So Big House. Messervy has also authored The Magic Land, The Inward Garden, and Contemplative Gardens, named one of the ten best garden books of the year by The New York Times.
Her design work and books have been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, House & Garden, Body + Soul, Natural Home & Garden, Country Living Gardener, Elle Decor, Vogue, Garden Design, Landscape Architecture and numerous other leading newspapers and magazines around the world. She was a columnist for Fine Gardening magazine and has appeared on WGBH’s “Victory Garden” and public radio stations across the nation. Messervy has lectured at distinguished venues such as the Smithsonian Institution, the National Geographic Society and the Getty Museum.
Accolades and Honors
In 2010, Thomas College awarded Messervy an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters; in 2007, she received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Messervy is the honored recipient of the Association for Professional Landscape Designer’s 2006 Award of Distinction. In 2005, she was awarded the Great American Gardeners Award for Landscape Design by the American Horticultural Society.
Messervy studied landscape design with eminent Japanese garden master Kinsaku Nakane in Kyoto, Japan, first as a Henry Luce Scholar, and then as a Japan Foundation Fellow. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College and Master of Architecture and Master in City Planning degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Messervy is the principal of Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio (JMMDS) in Saxtons River, Vermont.
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