Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: Gary Hilderbrand, " "Writing on the Surface of the Earth"

About This Event: Professor Gary Hilderbrand will discuss how the work of his landscape architecture practice, Reed Hilderbrand, is grounded in close site reading and narratives that find precise expression through design. Drawing on projects from the firm’s portfolio spanning the past 25 years, the lecture will explore the evolution of the practice, while reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between pedagogy and professional practice. Speaker: Gary Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard GSD. He founded, with Douglas Reed, the firm Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architects, and he is a fellow and resident of the American Academy in Rome. His acclaimed publications include The Miller Garden: Icon of Modernism and Visible | Invisible: Landscape Works of Reed Hilderbrand, along with two dozen essays on the cultures of modernism, urbanism, and the urban forest canopy in landscape architecture.