Linda Pollak, architect, landscape designer, and educator, works with clients and communities to imaginatively formulate and develop projects in relationship to social and environmental concerns with a specific commitment to the role of program. Her firm, Marpillero Pollak Architects, (MPA) is part of the NYC Department of Design and Construction Design Excellence Program, for which current projects include a new 30,000 square library for Elmhurst Queens and new lightweight structures for the Staten Island Children's Museum. MPA is also architect and urban designer for the New Stapleton Waterfront Park in Staten Island and Queens Plaza Bicycle and Pedestrian Improvement Project in Long Island City. Pollak is also working with the Horticultural Society of New York's GreenBranches Program to create Learning Gardens for three NYC Branch Libraries. Projects have been widely published in periodicals including The New York Times, House and Garden, Oculus, Places, Architectural Newspaper, Architectural Record, and books including Contemporary World Interiors, Creating the New American Townhouse, Great Spaces Home Interiors, Contemporary Public Space: Un-volumetric Architecture and On the Nature of things: Landscape Practices in North America.

Honors include fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, the Design Trust for Public Space, the Wheelwright Fellowship of Harvard University, the New York State Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts, AIA Honor Awards, including the AIA/HUD Community by Design Award, ASLA Awards, an EDRA/Places Award, a Wood Design Award, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Heritage Award, and winning entries to national and international competitions. Pollak serves on the board of the Storefront for Art and Architecture; has served as juror for international competitions including Orange Country Great Park; as Project Editor for Assemblage Journal. A member of the Harvard Faculty from 1992 to 2004, Pollak has taught design studios and seminars focusing on specialized topics in the relationships between architecture, landscape, and city, including geography, and techniques of representation. She is co-author of Inside Outside: between architecture and landscape and author of numerous essays in books and journals, including Praxis, Lotus International, the Landscape Urbanism Reader and Large Parks.