Landscape architecture is a mode of inquiry and a means to act.
Designing landscapes that deliver meaningful change to the world around us is not a wrote exercise. It requires both experience and an inventive spirit, and while we have built deep expertise across landscape typologies, we are still learning. We seek to look more closely, learn more expansively and think more inventively to deepen the impact we have on the world around us.
Looking Back to Look Forward. Cultures define themselves through their connections to the land. We ground our work in a deep respect for a site’s history — in the belief that landscapes of cultural resonance empower communities and create opportunities for a more expansive, brighter future for all. Read
Crafting Resilience. We believe in the power of beauty and in our responsibility to deliver durable projects to clients and communities. We are continually exploring how our work can more effectively achieve both. Read
The Power of Plants. “Knowing” plants is a lifetime’s passion project. In a time where the developed world is ever more distant from this transformative intelligence, we are investigating ways to support connections between people and plants. Read
Envisioning the City. Throughout history, the design of the urban landscape has both reflected and driven dramatic cultural shifts. We are fascinated by those histories and are always imagining the role we play in shaping the next transformative wave. ReadCrafting Resilience
We believe in the power of beauty and in our responsibility to deliver durable projects to clients and communities. We are continually exploring how our work can more effectively achieve both.
“Jardineros” at OSU Knowlton School
Senior Associate Stephanie Hsia joins OSU’s Michelle Arevalos Franco as a respondent at the opening of her exhibition “Jardineros”
Craft and Labor in Built Landscapes
This essay explores Reed Hilderbrand’s evolving approach to craft in landscape architecture—one that centers the contributions and perspectives of laborers as integral to the making and endurance of built landscapes.
Central Wharf Plaza featured in the Landscape Performance Series by LAF
The landscape performance benefits of Central Wharf Plaza were investigated through the Landscape Performance Series by the Landscape Architecture Foundation.
A Resilient and Sustainable Future for the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center
Reed Hilderbrand, working with Design Workshop, performed a forensic investigation of existing soils, topography, hydrology, and the remaining vegetation to form the basis of a landscape design that develops resilient and sustainable ecologies on the site
Land and Water at Laguna Gloria
The dynamic landscape of Laguna Gloria combines a rich cultural heritage shaped by unique geologic and hydrologic forces and amplified by diverse native ecologies to form the foundation for making and experiencing site-specific art.
National Mall Tidal Basin Ideas Lab
Reed Hilderbrand is one of five firms participating in the Tidal Basin Ideas Lab, a design ideas competition that reimagines the future of Washington D.C.’s iconic Tidal Basin. Poised in the temporal dimension, Reed Hilderbrand’s vision for the Tidal Basin responds to this cultural landscape’s indeterminate future by setting up a strategic exchange across current and future generations.
The New Orleans Museum of Art — a model of high-performing resiliency
Destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina elevated awareness of how the city manages water. The 2013 Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan charged City Park to do more to alleviate flooding pressures from the surrounding neighborhood. The Garden’s designers responded with a kit of parts for managing runoff and improving water quality: vegetated swales, riparian filters, enhanced oxygenation. Most impactful is a weir control structure that can lower the whole upper lagoon to increase storage capacity – transforming park to retention basin in storm events.
