Art and Place
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Beck House Dallas TX
The Clark Art Institute Williamstown D MA
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Poetry Foundation Chicago IL
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Half-Mile Line West H Stockbridge MA
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The MacDowell Colony Savidge Library Peterbourgh NH
Therapeutic Garden Wellesley L MA
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Guildford CT
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Long Dock Park Beacon NY
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The Crystal, Thomas SchĂźtte at The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
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The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park, Austin TX MIT North Court and Main Street, Cambridge MA deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ Beck House, Dallas TX New Orleans Museum of Art Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans LA Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill NY
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The Clark Art Institute Williamstown MA
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DESCRIPTION
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The reconception and renewal of the Clark Art Institute’s campus—debuted this summer following a fourteen-year collaboration with a big design team— establishes a regional commons where everyday life meets art and nature.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
2015 Honor Award for Design, ASLA 2015 Honor Award for Design, BSLA 2015 Best Landscape, The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards 2011 Merit Award for Design, BSLA
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140 acres DATES
2001–Ongoing Phase I Complete 2008 Phase II Complete 2014
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Tadao Ando Architects Selldorf Architects Gensler Buro Happold
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STONE HILL MEADOW
LUDNER CENTER
FOREST
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TERRACED POOLS
MANTON RESEARCH
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CLARK CENTER
MUSEUM
SCHOW POND
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George Inness, Home at Montclair, 1892
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George Inness, New Jersey Landscape, 1891
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The Clark’s mission and its geographical location define three essential aspects of its character and identity: the quality of its art, the beauty of its pastoral setting, and the depth of its commitment to the generation of ideas.
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The Contemporary Austin Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park Austin TX
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The 2015 Master Plan for The Contemporary Austin Betty and Edward Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria transforms the site into a work of art unto its self — activating the cultural heritage, geologic and hydrolic conditions, and diverse native ecologies — to create an international venue for making and experiencing site specific art.
Austin, Texas
Trahan Architects LBJ Wildflower Center Urban Design Group
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12 acres DATES
2013-2014 Design Competition (Winner) 2014-2015 Master Plan
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Careful editing and augmentation of the existing landscape yields a rich variety of character zones for the making and placing of sculpture.
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SHADED LAWN
MEADOW EDGE
AMPHITHEATER
WOODLAND OVERLOOK
CYPRESS
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EMERGENT
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EDGE
MEADOW OVERLOOK
BIRDER’S POINT
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MIT North Court and Main Street Cambridge MA
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The rebuilt North Court and Main Street promenades around the Koch Institute complete the MIT Main Group’s matrix of courts and connective paths, joining them to the emerging urban Cambridge. North Court was conceived as a fully framed, open field condition that supports significant campus rituals while carrying everyday desire-line paths. The framing edges of the quad are intensively active passages—each employing a different character keyed to its connections and programmatic adjacencies.
Cambridge MA
2013 Honor Award for Design BSLA
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5 acres
Ellenzweig Nitsch Engineering
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deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Lincoln MA
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In response to a changing mission, this major planning effort optimizes the integration of topography and program to free the institution for innovative curatorial strategies and ecological enhancements to enrich the visitor experience.
Lincoln, Massachusetts
Utile Architects VHB
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23 acre DATES
2011-2014 Master Plan
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Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix AZ
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A shady coutyard creates an oasis environment for a scultpture garden within Phoenix’s harsh climate, providing a quiet refuge for the public and a venue to support the museum’s larger public mission with events and daily programming.
Phoenix, Arizona
Award of Excellence for Design, Boston Society of Landscape Architects
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1 acre
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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects DATES
2004-2006
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Beck House Dallas TX
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Beck House Dallas, Texas
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Philip Johnson conceived of Beck House, in 1964, as a work of architectural theater floating above the native Texas landscape. When a young family rescued the house from likely demolition, we revised its relationship to those surroundings, elaborating Johnson’s original design into a sequence of terraces that extend domestic life over six acres of managed woodlands.
Dallas, Texas
2011 Honor Award for Residential Design, ASLA 2010 Merit Award for Design, BSLA
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11 acres DESIGN TEAM DATES
2002–2009
Bodron+Fruit Architects Dan Euser Waterarchitecture
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The aim of improved canopy and soils health drove numerous management and design decisions. Engineering solutions to Bachman Creek’s bank have stabilized eroded slopes and now resist regular flash flood damage. Extensive lawns of warm- and cool-season grasses provide essential spatial settings and access to the sculpture collections.
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Twenty-three original mature orchard pecans (along with five replacements) have returned to long-term vitality through extensive rehabilitation of root zones and canopies and under revised management practices.
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New Orleans Museum of Art Besthoff Sculpture Garden Expansion New Orleans LA
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Scenarios for Sculpture Experience in City Park
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BENEATH CANOPY
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Parrish Art Museum Water Mill NY
The building is sited within a meadow with parking set discretely within a woodland to the north. An entry drive at the eastern edge of the property along a Sassafras hedgerow also facilitates service requirements.
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After guiding them to a new site to allow for expansion, we worked closely with the Parrish to assess program needs and feasibility, identify an appropriate site for development, and finally design and build an entirely new campus that references the region’s most compelling cultural landscapes — sheap meadow, wetland, scrub woodland— as complement to Herzog & de Meuron’s new museum building.
Water Mill, New York
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Paths meandering from parking to the museum through the meadow are illuminated with catenary light fixtures.
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The parking area is placed between successional plantings that separate the woodland and meadow zones. Two water quality swales draining the parking area are part of a site-wide storm water management strategy.
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A 6,000 square-foot, covered front porch celebrates the scale of the new building and is an outdoor venue for social and community events.
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Profile
Our work aligns daily life with the visible phenomena and the invisible systems of nature. We give shape to land and the city, and in doing so we shape lives, build communities, reinvent institutions, and enrich urban neighborhoods. We see sites for what they are and what they might become. We create landscapes of cultural consequence.
ORIGIN
Douglas Reed and Gary Hilderbrand launched the firm in the mid-1990s to formalize years of close collaboration. Their vision of a design practice driven by investigative reason and speculative invention has drawn together a highly dedicated team of landscape architects, young designers, and staff. Based in Cambridge’s Central Square, and operating with the expanded leadership of six principals, Reed Hilderbrand is engaged in diverse commissions—urban centers, museum landscapes, academic campuses, commercial developments, and private residences—throughout North America and in Europe. More than seventy design awards distinguish this growing body of work. ASLA named Reed Hilderbrand its 2013 Landscape Architecture Firm of the Year. SEEING
Life offers its most ennobling experiences when we perceive a deep connection with our surroundings, whether at home, or work, or in recreation or play. Our work sharpens this perception, reveals things that you otherwise wouldn’t see, and obscures what we choose to suppress in favor of that which we foreground. Our medium offers nearly infinite choices for how to engage a problem; we narrow those choices through abstraction, analysis, iteration, and informed intuition. The precedents we call upon endow our work with cultural continuity and frame significant achievements in humanist terms. We exploit nature’s phenomena and amplify its natural systems. From the kinetic dynamism of an urban plaza to the intimate sanctuary of a wildlife observatory, our works come to life for today and for generations to come.
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SEEING BEYOND
We are as interested in what you can see as what you cannot. Many realms and scales of the invisible conspire to imbue meaning to a landscape. In varied proportions, these include what’s beneath the surface, what came before, and what’s behind the shapes or patterns, below the horizon, past our cone of vision—all beyond sight. Of these, the most provoking and potent is the indeterminate, the future. Even as we honor a site’s design heritage or an urban neighborhood’s ethos, we are aware of a responsibility to its future. We acknowledge the implications of rapid social transformations, climate change, and pressures to use resources wisely. Though our medium is often ephemeral, we approach landscape construction with an artisan’s passion for fine craftsmanship and durability. We design for high performance. Always we aim to transcend a project’s initial goals, to contribute enduring value to a community, and to enhance the value of our environment and our culture as a whole. RENAISSANCE
Our work participates in a current renaissance of an American tradition of city-making in which business, infrastructure, culture, and government complement one another in union. In 1931, the American art critic Lewis Mumford, writing on the great urban reform works of Frederick Law Olmsted and others of the late-nineteenth century, refined our understanding of the landscape as a product of civilization in The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865–1895: The influence of the land is sometimes looked upon as significant only in primitive conditions in life. With the coming of civilization—that is to say trade, manufacture, organized cities—the land is supposed to diminish in importance. As a matter of fact, the importance of the land increases with civilization. Nature, as a system of interests and activities, is one of the chief creations of civilized man. To understand the land, to appreciate the landscape, to turn to it for recreation, to cultivate it for food and energy, to reduce it to an orderly pattern of use— these functions belong more to an advanced state of society, than they do to a primitive one.
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Recognition
2015 ASLA Award of Excellence, Long Dock Park, Beacon NY 2015 ASLA Honor Award The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA 2015 ASLA Honor Award for Research, The State of City Soils
2013 BSLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Greenlee House, Dallas, TX 2013 ASLA Firm of the Year Award 2013 ASLA Award of Excellence for Communications, Visible|Invisible
2015 BSLA Award of Excellence, Long Dock Park, Beacon NY
2013 BSLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Greenlee House, Dallas, TX
2015 BSLA Honor Award The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA
2013 BSLA Honor Award for University Design, MIT North Court and Main Street, Cambridge, MA
2015 BSLA Honor Award for Research, The State of City Soil
2013 BSLA Honor Award for Urban Design, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
2015 Best Landscape, The Architect’s Newspaper Best of Design Awards, The Clark Art Institute 2014 ASLA Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning, Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Master Plan, Houston, TX 2014 SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture – Open Space Planning and Design Award, Duke University Campus Drive, Durham, NC 2014 BSLA Award of Excellence, Houston Arboretum Master Plan, Houston, TX
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2012 Preservation Award, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Beauport, SleeperMcCann House, Gloucester, MA
2013 BSLA Merit Award for Parks, Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, Boston, MA 2013 BSLA Merit Award for Residential Design, Manatuck Farm, Stonington, CT 2013 SITES-Certification (3-Stars), Long Dock Park, Beacon, NY 2012 Suburbia Transformed 2.0 Award, James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research, Old Quarry, Guilford, CT
2012 Leadership in History Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History, Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House, Gloucester, MA 2012 Preservation Achievement Award for New Construction in Harmony with Boston’s Built Environment, Boston Preservation Alliance, Liberty Wharf, Boston, MA 2012 American Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum & The European Centre, Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, Boston, MA 2012 ASLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Old Quarry Residence, Guilford, CT 2012 SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture – Open Space Planning and Design Award, Duke University West Campus Hybrid Landscapes, Durham, NC 2011 ASLA Honor Award for Design, Central Wharf Plaza, Boston, MA 2011 ASLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Beck House, Dallas, TX
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2011 ASLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Half-Mile Line, Stockbridge, MA
2008 ASLA Award of Excellence for Design, Phoenix Art Museum Sculpture Garden, Phoenix, AZ
2011 BSLA Honor Award for Residential Design, Old Quarry, Guilford, CT
2007 ASLA Award of Excellence, M. Victor & Frances Leventritt Garden, Boston, MA
2011 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Stone Hill Center, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
2005 Emerging Voices Award, The Architectural League of New York
2011 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Edward Leathers Community Park, Somerville, MA 2010 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Beck House, Dallas, TX 2010 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Family Retreat, location withheld
2003 ASLA Honor Award for Residential Design Hither Lane, East Hampton, NY
2009 BSLA Merit Award for Residential Design, Half-Mile Line Stockbridge, MA 2009 BSLA Merit Award for Residential Design, Rosserne, Northeast Harbor, ME
1999 ASLA Merit Award for Design , Hobart Urban Nature Preserve, Troy, OH
2009 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Village of Aurora, Aurora, NY
1998 Merit Award for Residential Design, Coolidge Hill, Cambridge, MA
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1995 BSLA Merit Award for Design, Institute for Child and Adolescent Development, Children’s Therapeutic Garden, Wellesley, MA 1993 BSLA Merit Award for Residential Design, Institute for Child and Adolescent Development, Children’s Therapeutic Garden, Wellesley, MA
2003 ASLA Merit Award for Design, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Maple Avenue Interment Sites, Cambridge, MA 2000 Preservation Award, Cambridge Historical Commission, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Mary Baker Eddy Monument and Halcyon Lake Environs, Cambridge, MA
2008 SCUP Excellence in Planning for an Established Campus, Honor Award, Bennington College Master Plan, Bennington, VT
1997 ASLA Award of Excellence, Institute for Child and Adolescent Development, Children’s Therapeutic Garden, Wellesley, MA
1998 BSLA Honor Award for Design Arnold Arboretum Leventritt Garden, Boston, MA
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