George Hargreaves

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George Hargreaves is a very influential landscape architect. He has many awards to his name for his contributions to the profession. Hargreaves and his firm designed numerous sites including the master plan for the Sydney 2000 Olympics, The Brightwater Waste Water Treatment Facility in Seattle, Washington, and University of Cincinnati Master Plan.

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[edit] Life and career

[edit] Education

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. Hargreaves describes the sense, "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?'" In 1973, George Hargreaves attended the School of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. Four years later, he graduated second in his class with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture. Soon after getting his bachelor’s degree, George went to Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He graduated with a Masters in Landscape Architecture.

[edit] Professional experience

In 1983, George Hargreaves started his own firm, Hargreaves Associates. George and Hargreaves Associates have worked on many well known designs over the years. George Hargreaves is an important part of every design. He works on the designs from conception all the way to the construction.

Hargreaves Associates is a world known Landscape Design firm with offices in San Francisco, California, Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and London. Hargreaves Associates do projects that range from large river edges to small residential sites. Once a designer is given a design, he/she sticks with the design from start to finish. One thing that all of their designs have in common is that the main philosophy of all the designs. This is to make connections, connections between the culture and environment of the area, the connection between the land and the people. These designs are created to get interaction between people and nature. This philosophy has resulted in numerous awards over the years.

[edit] Academic experience

George Hargreaves started his academic career shortly after he started Hargreaves Associates. Some of the first colleges he worked at were Cal Poly, University of Illinois Champaign, and University of Virginia Charlottesville. In 1986, George began to teach at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and has been a professor there ever since. He was the Chairman for the Department of Landscape Architecture and is currently the Peter Louis Hornbeck Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture. Some of the subjects he teaches are advanced and theoretical design classes and core studios.

His latest work as a professor is the book he co-wrote with Julia Czerniak. The book is Large Parks. Large Parks is compilation of eight essays on large urban parks. These essays talk about the complexity of the parks and how they part of society. Large Parks is only the latest in a long line of publications that he has written.

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