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. ReadLooking Back to Look Forward
Landscapes are places of memory and meaning, of stories and storytelling. We seek to reveal the particular truth of a place past and present and project that toward the future – to anticipate and to celebrate change – in keeping with the land’s individual genius loci.
Live Oak Rising
Country Roads magazine explores Reed Hildebrand’s work with Trahan Architects to reimagine Live Oak Plantation.
The Breakers
The renewal of this Gilded Age icon required the creation of a cultural landscape report in order to return to public life the spatial drama and horticultural richness created for the Vanderbilt family at the beginning of the twentieth century. A first phase of landscape renewal completed construction in summer 2019.
Tanglewood Landscape Framework Plan
Reed Hildebrand has worked with Tanglewood Music Center on a long-term, phased plan to cultivate a singular coherent through careful evaluation and editing.
Celebrating the opening of The Breakers North Parterre Garden
John Grove, Stephanie Pierce, and Chel Wattanasirichaigoon celebrated alongside the team, supporters of the Newport Preservation Society, and the garden’s benefactors. RH has been working at The Breakers since 2012, beginning with a cultural landscape report that has been the foundation of our design.
20 Years at Bennington College Adrian Nial speaks with Andy Schlatter, former Vice President for Facilities Management and Planning at Bennington College, about Reed Hilderbrand’s 20+ years of work and guidance on site.
Unearthing Stories, Boston
Boston is a city awash in history — much of which can be read in the shared landscapes of our public realm. The Freedom Trail — a 2.5-mile walk that connects historic sites — is the lens through which many tourists are introduced to Boston’s and America’s history. But what other stories are out there just waiting to be told? What stories — especially those featuring a more diverse cross-section of our community — are embedded in the sites we already know? Forgotten, under-interpreted, or intentionally erased, these histories deserve attention and appreciation. They are not just one community’s stories. They are all of our stories.
The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Reed Hilderbrand is committed to the work of the TCLF — Doug Reed was a founding board member and co-chair of The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Eric Kramer sits on the board of directors for the foundation today.
