George Hargreaves

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George Julian Hargreaves, Jr. is a prolific American landscape architect with many built works to his credit.

George Hargreaves
George Hargreaves

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George Hargreaves is the lead landscape architect for Hargreaves Associatesa firm that he founded in 1983. Hargreaves Associatesis a large landscape architecture firm with offices in San Francisco, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City. Mr. Hargreaves is a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Environmental Design with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1977. He then attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he received his Master of Landscape Architecture with Distinction in 1979. In 1986 George Hargreaves began to teach at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture. His classes include advancedand theoretical design studios. Hargreaves Associatesis responsible for numerous designs, most notably the Olympic Plaza for the Sydney Olympics in 2000, the Brightwater Waste Water Treatment Facility in Seattle, Candlestick Point State Recreation Area in San Francisco, Boston City Hall Plaza in Boston and Parque do Tejo e Trancao - Expo 1998 in Lisbon, Portugal. Hargreaves' firm has also designed numerous other porjects ranging from college campuses to residences to waterfronts and industreal/corporate spaces.

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According to Ken Gwertz's article "Landscape Alchemist," George Hargreaves' interest in Landscape Architecture was partially due to a summer trip that he went on when he was 18 years old. During the trip to the Rocky Mountains George Hargreaves climbed Flat Top Mountain where he experienced a life changing scene, of that scene Hargreaves said "It wasn't just the mountains or the trees or any of the individual elements. It was something about the sense of space itself. When I got back home I tried to explain this to my uncle...and he said, 'Have you ever thought about going into landscape architecture?'" Shortly thereafter George Hargreaves enrolled at the University of Georgia and received his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture in 1977. A few years after receiving his Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 1979, George founded Hargreaves Associates. George is currently both a Senior Principal at Hargreaves Associates as well as the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Pracice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. Hargreaves specializes in turning wasted lands into beautifully landscaped spaces. An example of this is the Parque do Tejo e Trancao in Lisbon, Portugal. The site was a sewage treatment plant and landfill site. Hargreaves' design improved the former sewage treatment plant from a two tier process plant into a three tier process plant. Along with the improvement to the treatment plant, Hargreaves turned the site into a park that combines environmental uses as well as an educational center for visitors. Hargreaves received the Waterfront Center Honor Award in 1995 for Parque do Tejo e Trancao.

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