Paul Daniel Marriott

Dan Marriott has been a national leader in historic preservation for two decades and is recognized for his diverse and interdisciplinary approach to landscape architecture heritage and cultural landscapes. He is a licensed landscape architect (Maryland) and spent his early career working for design firms on projects ranging from planned communities to waterfront redevelopment.

Marriott was a program director at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and is currently principal of a consulting practice, Paul Daniel Marriott + Associates, where he serves as a landscape architect and technical consultant to federal, state, tribal, and local governments, and international organizations and educational institutions. He taught landscape history at the George Washington University for over 20 years and has been a guest lecturer and visiting critic in landscape architecture, historic preservation and planning programs at Columbia University, Cornell University, UCLA, the University of Maryland, and the University of Oregon. Marriott teaches a policy course on historic roads for the National Preservation Institute and was an instructor for the American Institute of Architects Sustainable Cities Design Academy.

Marriott is the author of the two most referenced books on historic roads and is considered a global expert on the topic. He served as a World Heritage field investigator for the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in Mexico and has lectured on historic and scenic roads in Australia, France, and the United Kingdom. In 2009, he was awarded a prestigious Fitch Foundation Fellowship for historic preservation. In 2016, Marriott was appointed to the Board of Trustees for the National Association for Olmsted Parks. He was an adviser and expert commentator for the PBS documentary series, “10 That Changed America." In 2018-19, his research was featured in the exhibit, “Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence” at the Garden Museum in London. In 2023, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship at the National Library of Scotland.

Marriott has worked in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Japan, and Australia. He is passionate about global education and, as the Department of Landscape Architecture's Director of Education Abroad, manages the semester abroad program in Bonn, Germany.

• LARCH 365: Contemporary Trends in Landscape Architecture
• LARCH 414: Design Studio

• Marriott, Paul Daniel and Daniel Willis. “Light, Air and Views: The Underappreciated Health Benefits of Balconies” (Chapter), Handbook of Greening High Density Cities. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2023.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel Marriott. “Hutchinson River Parkway, Determination of Eligibility,” Albany, New York: New York State Historic Preservation Office, 2023.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel and Daniel Willis. “Interdisciplinary Design Studio Teaching: An Experiment,” AIA CONTEXT (Journal of the Philadelphia AIA), Spring 2020.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel. “Roads Designed for Pleasure, British Influences on the American Motor Parkway.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 2016.
• “The Pleasure Drive,” LA+PLEASURE, University of Pennsylvania School of Design Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture, Fall 2015.
• “Roads Designed for Pleasure, A Brief History of the Origins of Scenic Driving and Automobile Touring in the United States,” Journal For America’s Byways, (2 parts) June, October 2011.
• The Preservation Office Guide to Historic Roads. New York: Fitch Foundation (86 pages), 2010.
• “Treatment Plan and Management Recommendations for the Carriage Road System, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.” Woodstock, Vermont: U.S. National Park Service, 2010.
• “El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, Technical Evaluation Mission Report for the Proposed World Heritage Cultural Route, Mexico, 2009.” Paris: Secrétariat ICOMOS International (technical report), 2009.
• “Route of the Kukini: the Historic Hana Road.” American Road Magazine, Spring 2007.
• From Milestones to Mile-markers: Understanding Historic Roads. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, America’s Byways Resource Center (216 pages), 2004.
• “Great River Road in Illinois, Corridor Management Plan.” Springfield, IL: Illinois Department of Transportation, 2000.
• “Saving Historic Roads”, Landscape Architecture Magazine, August 1999.
• Marriott, P.D., Webb, A. and Whiteman, J. “Seward Highway Corridor Partnership Plan: A Strategy for Management, Economic Development, and Conservation.” Juneau, Alaska: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, 1998.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel. Saving Historic Roads: Design and Policy Guidelines. New York: John Wiley and Sons (240 pages), 1998.
• "Historic Parkway Design: A Look at the AASHTO Green Book." CRM Journal of the National Park Service, February 1994.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel and Shelley Mastran. “Community Guide to Planning and Managing a Scenic Byway.” Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1993.
• Marriott, Paul Daniel. “Rochester Gateway Study.” Rochester, NY: Rochester Office of Planning, 1991

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Invited Speaker, FRANCE, Comprendre la Route (conference), Building a National Historic Roads Dialogue and Conference: Observations from the United States, Cerisy, September 2023.
• Invited Speaker, UNITED KINGDOM, Annual Fulbright Public Lecture, National Library of Scotland, Lost Roads and Forgotten Journeys: The Newman and Bartholomew Collections, May 2023
• Invited Speaker, UNITED KINGDOM, Gresham College, London, Fulbright Speakers Series, Picturesque Engineering: Telford’s Highland Roads and Bridges, March 2023.
• Speaker, CELA Annual Meeting (virtual), Bridging the Divide: Lessons From a Three-year Experiment in Studio Collaboration Between Landscape Architecture and Architecture at Penn State, March 2021.
• Speaker, Philadelphia AIA (virtual), The Importance of Collaboration, October 2020.
• Invited Speaker, Boston Society for Architecture (virtual), Repton in America, May 2020.
• Invited Speaker, UNITED KINGDOM, Little Threads of Civilisation: Unpacking One of Scotland’s Greatest Road Trips, National Library of Scotland, Speaker Series, November 2019.
• Invited Speaker, Lake Park Friends, Beyond the Olmsted Legacy: Valuing Lake Park and other Historic Milwaukee Landscapes, Milwaukee, October 2019.
• Invited Speaker, UNITED KINGDOM, Repton Revived: The Landscape Gardener’s Legacy and Influence, Repton in America, Garden Museum, London, January 2019.
• Invited Speaker, FRANCE, Tree Allées – From War to Peace, International Symposium, Routes of Memory in the United States: Symbolism, Design and the Landscape, Liffol-le-Grand, November 2018.
• Speaker, PORTUGAL, Landscape and Life Conference, Planning for Equitable Park Access, Lisbon, May 2017.
• Keynote Speaker, Rural Roundup, Nevada’s Rural Tourism Conference, You Say ‘Welcome’ but do Your Visitors ‘See’ Welcome’? Improving Land Use, Design and Planning Tools for Rural Destinations in Nevada, Elko, April 2017.
• Keynote Speaker, Building Creative Communities Conference, Enchanted Routes: Managing the Roads, Trails, Corridors and Landscapes that Connect New Mexico’s Communities, Santa Fe, 2015.
• Invited Speaker, SCOTLAND, Landscape Institute Scotland, Little Threads of Civilization, British Influences on the American Motor Parkway, Edinburgh, 2014.
• Invited Speaker, University of Texas, Austin, Ransom Center Norman Bel Geddes Conference, Magic Motorways: Norman Bel Geddes and the Interstate Highway System, 2012.

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