Jury Chair Gary Hilderbrand is the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is the current Chair of the GSD’s Department of Landscape Architecture. He is also Principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a landscape architecture practice in Cambridge and New Haven. His honors include Harvard University’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, and the 2013 ASLA Firm of the Year award. Hilderbrand is the recipient of the 2017 ASLA Design Medal. Design Intelligence named him one of its “25 Most Admired Educators” of 2016.
Through three widely acclaimed books and two dozen essays, Hilderbrand has helped to position landscape architecture’s role in reconciling intellectual and cultural traditions with contemporary forces of urbanization and change. As a teacher, designer, and critic, Hilderbrand brings forward a passion for landscape architecture’s history and its future potential everywhere he works. He leads commissions that draw upon the traditions of American landscape architecture while also facing the major global crises of our time—climate change and environmental justice. Since co-founding Reed Hilderbrand 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.
