Maddy Samaddar-Johnson (B.Arch., M.Arch., M.L.Arch.) is trained in both architecture and in landscape architecture & urban planning, with over sixteen 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 (residential, cultural, institutional, hospitality, health-care, commercial, mixed-use), interiors (residential, cultural, commercial and institutional), landscape architecture (public parks, private gardens, community parks, industrial parks, green-ways, urban squares & corridors, waterfronts, recreation design, restoration & preservation, flood-protection, schools, resorts), set-designs, master-planning, transportation 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 as well as with eminent Canadian landscape architect & educator Ron Williams.

 

She’s also worked in various roles – as a regional and national Director, consultant, senior planner and design + project manager - for several 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, RPBW 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.

   

She'd interned under Prtitzker Prize laureate B.V. Doshi and while in her early 20s founded her first company which implemented design projects in India & Nepal.

 

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 resilient communities. 

 

Other than architecture, Maddy has also been active as a performer and designer in theater, music and classical dance. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the US.

 

For her detailed education and work history, click HERE.

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

 

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