VWA | Lausanne Born in 1967 in Lowell, MA, USA, Verzone grew up in the suburbs of Lowell before he studied landscape architecture at Cornell University (Presidential Scholar 1986-90) and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (MLAUD 1992-94). In 1988, he received the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy. He has taught at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, the Joint Masters Program of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland in Fribourg and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is licensed as a landscape architect in Massachusetts since 1994 and a member of the Swiss Federation of Landscape Architects, FSAP as well as a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.