Gary Hilderbrand, landscape architect and educator, is Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Chair of Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD, and founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand. His practice negotiates the fragile balance of ecological systems, urban density, and cultural memory, producing landscapes both resilient and lyrical. His writings—Making a Landscape of Continuity, The Miller Garden, Visible | Invisible—probe continuity, form, and perception across scales. Recipient of the ASLA Design Medal and Rome Prize, Hilderbrand embodies a rare duality: systemic foresight paired with poetic sensitivity, each project an aperture into deeper terrains of thought.
We asked Gary Hilderbrand (Reed Hilderbrand, Harvard GSD) to suggest three books that are relevant to landscape architects and should be more known in the profession. Here is his proposal: _ 1. The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture by Emanuele Coccia / Polity, 2018 This is a book that you just have to […]
Gary Hilderbrand has been teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design since 1990 and is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also the founding principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a leading landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was established in the […]
The Harvard Graduate School of Design organized a two-day conference titled Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All? It is open to the public and available via streaming. Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide—at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban […]
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