Gary Hilderbrand, FAAR, FASLA
Gary Hilderbrand is a Founding Principal and Partner of Reed Hilderbrand. A committed practitioner, teacher, critic, and writer, Gary is Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he has taught since 1990. His honors include Harvard University’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture, the Architectural League’s Emerging […]
Elizabeth Dean Hermann, PhD
Elizabeth Dean Hermann, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, designer and professor of Urbanism and Landscape at RISD whose research and teaching focus on cities, their culture-environment interconnectivity, gender issues and at-risk communities. For the past several decades her work has been centered in South Asia and the coastal cities of the Bay of Bengal region […]
Andrei Harwell, AIA
Andrei Harwell is an architect, urban designer and planner. Over the last fifteen years he has been involved in the design and management of a wide range of award winning projects—from the design of individual buildings and public spaces to neighborhood and downtown plans. Since 2006, he has managed the Yale Urban Design Workshop and […]
Patrick A. Hansford
Patrick Hansford is an architect, planner, and educator. Originally from Troy, Ohio, he graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor of Science degree majoring in architectural and environmental design technology. Mr. Hansford completed his formal architectural education at Miami University obtaining his Master of Architecture. Mr. Hansford began his career working for several […]
Lisa DuRussel, ASLA, LEED AP, RLA
Raised in a family of farmers in rural Michigan, Lisa developed a formative respect and commitment to the sophistication and complexities of nature at a young age. As a practicing landscape architect and educator, Lisa draws from 15 years of professional design experience where she has led the design and implementation of award-winning projects that […]
Julia Czerniak, AIA, ASLA, RLA
Julia Czerniak is associate dean and professor of architecture at Syracuse University where she teaches studios as well as seminars on landscape theory and criticism. Julia is educated both as an architect (Princeton University, M. Arch 1992) and landscape architect (Pennsylvania State University, BA 1984) and her research and practice draws on the intersection of […]
Manuel Cordero
Manuel Cordero is a designer, advocate and educator with an interest in expanding the audience and participation in the planning and design of public spaces. He is a licensed architect in Rhode Island with several years of experience in large-scale institutional projects, with a focus on educational and community planning projects. In 2020, he founded […]
Pamela Conrad, ASLA, LEED AP, PLA
Pamela Conrad, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, is an internationally recognized landscape architect, 2023 Loeb Fellow at Harvard, and Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow. Her passion for the environment is deeply rooted – from growing up on a farm in Missouri to degrees in Plant Science and regenerative landscape architecture. Conrad’s 20-year career most recently as a […]
Yuwen Chen
Dr. Yuwen Chen is an associate professor of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the University of Rhode Island. He has been with the University of Rhode Island for 13 years and has been involved in MBA teaching and capstone project coaching for 9 years. Dr. Chen is also a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt and […]
Sonia Raquel Chao, LEED AP, RA
Sonia Chao writes and teaches in the area of sustainable architecture and urbanism, resilient design, and historic preservation in the subtropics. Her scholarship explores the intersection between historic preservation, historic places and resilient design. Chao’s current research, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), studies the connections between a city’s built and social layers. The […]
