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. ReadEnvisioning the City
Cities are places of both communing and dissonance and they are the richer for it. Every citizen has the right to access to quality open space, to be given the opportunity to sit in the shade of even a single great tree. Our work seeks to be ever more skilled at operating in these vibrant, challenging conditions to make strong places for plants and people to come together, to build community.
The Cambridge Urban Forest Master Plan
RH worked with the City of Cambridge’s Urban Forest Task Force to develop a planning framework with the goal of growing and sustaining a resilient and equitably distributed urban forest for Cambridge, in the face of climate change.
Repentance Park
Following work for Plan Baton Rouge II, Reed Hildebrand realized the first phases of the planning vision through the design and build of Repentance Park and City Hall Plaza, creating a cohesive, accessible, and active venue for civic life.
Theodore Roosevelt Park at the American Museum of Natural History Gilder Center
The renewed Theodore Roosevelt Park activates a new entrance for the American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation expansion by Studio Gang, establishing new spaces for community gathering and movement, while preserving and extending the life of the park’s beloved mature canopy.
Cultivating Shade: Policy, Planning, Design, and Activism for Geneva's Urban Forest
Cultivating Shade: Policy, Planning, Design, and Activism for Geneva’s Urban Forest is a research seminar report from the Spring 2025 semester at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, taught by Eric Kramer.
Franklin Park Action Plan
An action plan for Boston’s Franklin Park. The project received the ASLA Award of Excellence.
Planting Trees The RH team talks through the benefits of planting bare root trees with the City of Cambridge.
Arbor Day The RH team celebrates Arbor Day with a group of students and the City of Cambridge.
Reed Hilderbrand’s video for the Forest Futures exhibit at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. “FOREST FUTURES explores the intertwined history of forests and humanity, critically examining the past and the present to emphasize our profound connection with these vital habitats. A glance at the ungraspable timeline of forest evolution, 350 million years, reveals an alarming fact: a millennium of human activity—a blink of an eye in geological time—has threatened the equilibrium of these life-sustaining ecosystems.”