REED HILDERBRAND Beka Sturges Principal Critic, Yale School of Architecture Member, ASLA LEED AP

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Biography Selected Works Presenter: “Sustainable Planting Strategies and Beka Sturges is a Partner and Principal of The Clark Art Master Plan, Cultivated Ecologies,” ASLA Annual Meeting, Reed Hilderbrand and leads the firm’s New Williamstown MA 2010 Haven office. Her work is noted for its powerful Brown University Wilson Hall, Presenter: Garden Club of Cleveland: “From spatial demonstration of the cultural and Providence RI Garden to Park” 2020 environmental value of landscapes. Since Chazen Museum of Art, opening the New Haven office, she has led Madison WI Teaching both private and public projects. Current work Dumbarton Oaks, Critic in Architecture, Yale School of includes landscapes at Yale University, Storm D.C. Architecture, 2020 King Art Center, and Dumbarton Oaks. Actively Duke University Campus Drive Plan, Adjunct Professor of Art History and collaborating with the City of New Haven, she Durham NC Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, initiated the vision plan and implementation Georgia O’Keefe Museum, 2013-present of the Mill River Trail, Phase 1, a 4-acre linear Santa Fe NM Visiting Assistant Professor of Art: Campus park running through the center of New Haven. Half-Mile Line, Landscape Architecture, Wesleyan University Beka served as the project landscape architect Berkshires MA Teaching Fellow: Ecology and Land Use and manager for the award-winning expansion Hirshhorn Museum, Planning, Harvard Graduate School of of The Clark Art Institute in the Berkshires. A Washington D.C. Design, 2004 committed educator, she teaches at Yale School Kirtland Hills, of Architecture and Connecticut College. Kirtland Hill OH Guest Critic Mill River Trail Framework Plan, Architectural College New Haven CT Harvard Graduate School Design Education Storm King Art Center, OSU Knowlton School of Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design Mountainville NY Penn State School of Design Master of Landscape Architecture, Williams College Landscape Framework Plan, Wesleyan University with distinction, 2004 WIlliamstown MA Yale University School of Architecture , Doctoral Studies in Yale Science Hill Landscape Framework, English Literature, 1999 & 2001 New Haven CT Awards/Honors Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY, Yale Science Planning Study, 2018, CTSLA Honor Award for Design Bachelor of Arts, 1994 New Haven CT The Mill Residence Yale Sustainable Transportation Framework, 2017, CTASLA Honor Award for Design Professional Experience New Haven CT New Haven Residence Principal: Reed Hilderbrand 2015 ASLA Honor Award for Design Cambridge MA, 2005–present Lectures & Symposia The Clark Art Institute Designer: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Speaker, 20th Annual Landscape Design 2015 Best Landscape, The Architect’s Cambridge MA, 2004–2005 Portfolios Series, “Giving Voice to the Land”, Newspaper Best of Design Awards, The Clark New York Botanical Garden Talk, 2018 Art Institute Service Panelist, ASLA Annual Meeting, “Finding ASLA Honor Award for Design Board Member, Artspace, New Haven Design: Case Studies in the Creative Process” Old Quarry Residence Board Member, Site Projects, New Haven PA, 2018 BSLA Honor Award for Design Panelist, “Design for Equity and Inclusion” Old Quarry Residence Watertown MA, 2018 Suburbia Transformed 2.0 Award, James Rose Presenter, New Directions in the American Center for Landscape Architectural Research Landscape Conference: “Realizing Design and Design, Old Quarry Residence Intent Through Ecological Management”, Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, Highest Connecticut College Arboretum, New London award of the Department of Landscape CT, 2016 Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Presenter: “Conceptions of Campus: Integrating Design, 2004 Art and Landscape at The Clark,” SCUP, Van Alen Institute, Student Exhibition, 2004 Providence RI, April 2015 Large Parks: New Perspectives Conference Presenter: ASLA Annual Meeting, “Water As & Exhibition, Harvard Graduate School of a Medium: Infrastructure, Expression, and Design, 2003 Collaboration at The Clark,” 2014