Melissa Naranjo Barrientos

Senior Landscape Designer
Boston, MA, USA

Melissa Naranjo is a Master in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is a licensed Architect from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana - Medellín, Colombia. She is the 2018 Harvard GSD International Community Service Fellow and her project “Les Alpilles Wild-Garden'' was the recipient of the 2019 Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship by the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships. Her academic work has been published by the Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo (FAU-USP), Facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, and more recently at Harvard GSD. Melissa has practiced as an Architect since 2010 and her experience includes the design direction of projects and competitions from the concept through the executive phase with LCLA office and Mazzanti Architects. As a Landscape Architect, Melissa worked as the lead designer of Moakley Park in Boston, MA (STOSS 2019-20'). Melissa is currently an Associate with MASS Design Group.