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 rote exercise. It requires both experience and an inventive spirit, and while we have built deep expertise across landscape typologies, we are always learning. We seek to look more closely, think more inventively, and act more expansively — to deepen the impact we have on the world around us.
Looking Back to Look Forward. 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 
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.
Interpreting a 400-Year-Old Plantation's Legacies
Country Roads magazine explores Reed Hildebrand’s work with Trahan Architects at Live Oak Plantation.
An American Cultural Landscape, Rediscovered and Renewed
The renewal of the Breakers in Newport required the creation of a cultural landscape report followed by a master plan and various implementation projects in order to return the spatial drama and horticultural richness created for the Vanderbilt family at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Luminary Musicians, Beloved Landscapes
Reed Hildebrand has worked with Tanglewood Music Center on a long-term, phased plan to cultivate a singular coherent vision through careful evaluation and editing.
Unearthing Boston's Lost Stories
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.
