University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

Gary Hilderbrand.  Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department, Harvard Graduate School of Design [1] and Principal of Reed Hilderbrand [2].

"The Works of Reed Hilderbrand"

A celebrated teacher and prolific writer, and designer, Gary Hilderbrand brings forward a passion for landscape architecture's history and its future potential everywhere he works. Since co-founding the practice in 2000 with Douglas Reed, he has been responsible for several projects that enrich and advance urban forestry practices, from a single plaza to a district to an entire city.

Gary Hilderbrand is also the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1990, and Chair of the GSD's Department of Landscape Architecture, effective July 1, 2022. The organization's honors include the 2013 ASLA Firm of the Year award and Design Intelligence named Gary Hilderbrand one of its "25 Most Admired Educators" of 2016. Gary is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA Design Medal, the highest honor available to an American landscape architect.

Through three widely acclaimed books and two dozen essays, Gary has helped to position landscape architecture's role in reconciling intellectual and cultural traditions with contemporary forces of urbanization and change.

This lecture is supported by the OAC Vandergrift Fund and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects [3].

Contacts:  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator:  Nadia Amoroso [4], Associate Professor, and LA Speaker Series Student Assistant: Sydney Black [5].