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Frank Edgerton Martin

is a landscape historian, architectural writer, and design journalist. His writing on campus planning, suburban history, design, and landscape preservation has appeared in publications including: Architecture, Perspecta, Modulus, Fabric Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Design Quarterly.
Latest Stories
A New Western Home

Snøhetta designs a commons for Norwegian life in America

Minneapolis Public Service Building exterior
Lasting Values

The Minneapolis Public Service Building focuses on enduring human needs: wellness, civic space, and equity of access to government

lounge space with orange chairs and bright yellow staircase in the background
Bright and Light

In Minneapolis, Perkins&Will designed a new home for the Family Tree Clinic to be a refuge of care

glass airport in Minneapolis
Airport Intermodal

The new Silver Ramp and the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport opens a 21st century gateway for transit connection

A planted sidewalk garden
On the Ground in Minneapolis (Again)

In Minneapolis, as George Floyd Square is cleared, so too is the historic landscape

North Dakota as it appeared 100 years ago, at a border town demonstrating the impact of native landscape design
Landscape Tastes, Building, and Forgetting

The 19th-century landscape design principles that shaped the Midwest are still with us today

the Air Force Academy Chapel under construction with half the spires unfinished
Up In The Air

The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever

A mural surrounding a rain garden in minneapolis
Cultural Landscapes Part Two

Op-ed: Preserving the memory of what just happened

A wooden fist sculpture in Minneapolis, in tribute to George Floyd
Landscapes for Justice

On the ground in Minneapolis: The cultural landscapes that matter now

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