Adaptation by Design, Lecture 3: Chris Reed

Architecture Sarasota

Join the third in our lecture series: Adaptation by Design, with speaker Chris Reed.

265 S Orange Ave

Adaptation by Design Lecture Series - Spring 2026

Safeguarding our architectural legacy by anchoring design strategies in culture and place. Discussions of geography, heritage, and resilience that spans from emergency disaster response and documentation to long-term preservation.

Adaptation by Design - Lecture 3 Chris Reed, Harvard University, Graduate School of DesignMarch 3, 20266:00 - 7:30pmThe Pavilion, 265 S Orange Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236 ABOUT THE SERIESSafeguarding our architectural legacy by anchoring design strategies in culture and place. A discussion of geography, heritage, and resilience that spans from emergency disaster response and documentation to long-term preservation. Jeneva Wright, Advisory Council on Underwater ArchaeologyWhen the Shoreline Speaks: What Our Coasts Can Tell Us About Preserving Cultural HeritageJanuary 27, 2026 - 6:00 pm Jeffrey Huber, Brooks Scarpa HuberSalty Urbanism: Designing for Rising Seas, Future Heat, and Resilient CommunitiesFebruary 10, 2026 - 6:00 pm Chris Reed, Harvard University, Graduate School of DesignMarch 3, 2026 - 6:00 pm ABOUT THE SPEAKERChris Reed is Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is also Founding Director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism. He is recognized internationally as a leading voice in the transformation of landscapes and cities, and he works alternately as a researcher, strategist, teacher, designer, and advisor. Reed is particularly interested in the relationships between landscape and ecology, infrastructure, social spaces, and cities. His work collectively includes urban revitalization initiatives, climate resilience and adaptation efforts, speculative propositions, adaptations of infrastructure and former industrial sites, dynamic and productive landscapes, vibrant public spaces that cultivate a diversity of social uses and cultural traditions, and numerous landscape installations. His work can be found in cities as diverse as Boston, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Galveston, Abu Dhabi, and Dongshan, China. His work through Stoss has been recognized with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture; the Topos International Landscape Award; and various other practice- and project-based awards from Progressive Architecture, the American Society of Landscape Architects, Azure’s AZ Awards, World Landscape Architecture, the Architectural League of New York, the Waterfront Center, EDRA / Places, and the Boston Society of Architects. Reed is the co-editor of Projective Ecologies with ecologist and planner Nina-Marie Lister, and co-author of the book Mise-en-Scène: The Lives and Afterlives of Urban Landscapes with photographer Mike Belleme. He is a recipient of the 2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Landscape Architecture, a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the 2017 Mercedes T. Bass Landscape Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. Reed received a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Urban Studies from Harvard College.

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