Space of Trees

Gary Hilderbrand

Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008 at 6:00 pm – Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design

Gary Hilderbrand is widely published as an author and critic on twentieth-century landscape architecture practice. His monograph Making a Landscape of Continuity: The Practice of Innocenti and Webel, was recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and won the American Institute of Graphic Arts Award for Outstanding Book Design. Hilderbrand holds degrees from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1990. He serves on the editorial boards of Land Forum and Harvard Design Magazineand is a principal in Reed Hilderbrand Associates Inc. Landscape Architecture, Watertown, Massachusetts. The P.H. Elwood Lecture in Landscape Architectureand part of the College of Design's 30th Anniversary Celebration.

Cosponsored By:
  • College of Design
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)

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