Maddy Samaddar-Johnson (B.Arch., M.Arch., M.L.Arch.) is trained in both architecture and in landscape architecture & urban planning, with over fifteen years of American, Canadian and international experience. 

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She has worked on projects in over a dozen countries spanning five continents, encompassing numerous works in architecture, interiors, landscape architecture, set-designs, master-planning as well as city and regional planning,

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Based in New York City, Maddy has previously worked with two Order of Canada recipients - noted contemporary architect Dan S Hanganu for several years as well as with eminent Canadian landscape architect and educator Ron Williams. Prior to this, she'd interned under Pritzker Prize laureate B.V. Doshi and while in her early 20s founded her first design practice which implemented projects in India.

Following two masters degrees in Canada, she has worked in various roles – as a regional and national Director, consultant, senior planner and design + project manager - for esteemed firms in USA, Canada and Italy (including Group Arcop Architects / Architecture 49, Group IBI, for South Florida's largest residential developer, for several New York clients, for OBR Italy & Renzo Piano) and also on projects undertaken by Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Canadian International Development Agency), the International Institute of Sustainable Development, by the Aga Khan Foundation & Development Network and for Architects Without Borders.

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Her work has won her academic & professional awards and fellowships and she has also given lectures/presentations at several institutes. 

Her research and practicum focused on combining the principles of landscape ecology with sustainable/resilient urban communities. 

 

Other than architecture, Maddy has also been active as a performer and designer in theater, music (jazz) and classical dance (Bharatnatyam) She has been a long time proponent in animal-rescue efforts. In her early years, she was an avid high-altitude mountaineer and ice-cliff climber. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the US and speaks six languages.

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For the text of a detailed interview on architecture from a print publication, click here. 

For a recent informal talk click here 

 

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