George Hargreaves (born November 12, 1952) is a landscape architect. Under his design direction, the work of his firm has received numerous national awards and has been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. He was an artist in residence at the American Academy of Rome in 2009. Hargreaves and his firm designed numerous sites including the master plan for the

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The Brightwater Waste Water Treatment Facility
in Seattle, Washington, an
University of Cincinnati Master Plan

Education

According to Ken Gwertz's articl

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

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, 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 , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

. Four years later, he graduated second in his class, magna cum laude, with a

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. Soon after getting his bachelor's degree, George went to

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. He graduated with distinction and received a master's degree in Landscape Architecture.

Professional experience

In 1983
Hargreaves Associates
now Hargreaves Jones, was founded. George and Hargreaves Associates have worked on many well known designs over the years. George Hargreaves is an important part of every design. Hargreaves Jones (previously Hargreaves Associates) is a professional consulting firm composed of landscape architects and planners with offices in San Francisco, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The work includes a wide range of urban design, waterfronts, public parks, academic, corporate, institutional, and residential planning and design projects. According to Hargreaves, "Convention is easy to slip into, to keep making the same pictures. What I try to find are those magic moments of clarity when you hear what the site is whispering to you.

In the Introduction of the 2009 publication on his practice
Landscape Alchemy
Hargreaves cites that the firm seldom encounters project sites that are a greenfield or “natural” but are more likely to be brownfields, often flat, devoid of any significant vegetation or other natural features, yet close to city centers. Mostly late 20th century and early 21st century sites, they differ greatly from the majority of the sites for the great parks realized from the 17th to early 20th century that had much more obvious character where glacial terrain with remnant countryside provided what Hargreaves likes to call “good bones”. Additionally, he points out that “our design strategies is a continuing search for the way to conceptually enter the site and create bones where there are none”, and that while each Hargreaves project integrates sustainability, phenomena and process, site histories, adjacencies and overlays, “none should operate singularly - they all interact on the same site as we strive to put bones in our projects that will give them life for decades or centuries to come”. At his presentation to the Forum for Urban Design Spring Conference 2009: the 21st Century Park & Contemporary City held at the Modern Museum of Art, Hargreaves emphasized that "distressed sites, whether abandoned, polluted, neglected, or all three, are the dross from which 21st Century dreams are woven".

Academic experience

George Hargreaves started his academic career shortly after he started Hargreaves Associates. He first taught at universities such as Cal Poly, University of Illinois Champaign, and University of Virginia Charlottesville. In 1986, George began to teach a
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
where he became a tenured professor and continued teaching there for over twenty years. He was the Chair for the Department of Landscape Architecture from 1996 through 2003. Prior to resigning from his position at Harvard to focus on his practice, he was th

and taught advanced and theoretical design classes and core studios. An important piece of his academic work is the book he co-wrote wit

The book i
''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 and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Book Prize by the Foundation for Landscape Studies for having contributed significantly to the understanding of landscape studies.

Projects

21st Century Waterfront
Chattanooga, Tennessee
300 Spear Street
San Francisco, California
Abu Dhabi Beaches
Abu Dhabi, Dubai
American Indian Cultural Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts of Collin County
Allen, Texas
Astir Palace Hotel
Athens, Greece
Baton Rouge Riverfront
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bayfront Park
San Francisco, California
Belo Garden
Dallas, Texas
Bransten Residence
Bolinas, California
Brightwater Wastewater Treatment Facility
Seattle, Washington
Byxbee Park
Palo Alto, California
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area
San Francisco, California
Chattanooga Renaissance Park
Chattanooga, TN
Chennai International Airport Terminal
Chennai, India
Banks, Cincinnati Riverfront Park
Cincinnati, Ohio
Circular Quay
Sydney, Australia * College of Santa Fe Master Plan, Santa Fe, New Mexico
County Administration Center Waterfront Park
San Diego, California
Crissy Field
San Francisco, California
Crescent Park
New Orleans, LA
Dallas Downtown Parks Master Plan
Dallas, Texas
Davenport Arts Walk
Davenport, Iowa
Dayton Residence
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Discovery Green
Houston, Texas
Drexel University - 32nd Street Pedestrian Mall
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Duke University - Student Center Plaza
Durham, North Carolina
East Darling Harbour Competition
Sydney, Australia
Elizabeth Caruthers Park
Portland, Oregon
Exploration Place
Wichita, Kansas
Fort Washington Way
Cincinnati, Ohio
General Motors Global Headquarters Riverfront Plaza and Promenade
Detroit, Michigan
General Motors Tech Center Master Plan
Warren, Michigan
Guadalupe River Park
San Jose, California
Hewlett Packard Courtyard
Palo Alto, California
Hunter Point Shipyard Waterfront Park
San Francisco, California
Knoxville South Waterfront Development
Knoxville, Tennessee
Lake Union Park
Seattle, Washington
Los Angeles State Historic Park
Los Angeles, California
Louisville Waterfront Park Phase I
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville Waterfront Park Phase II
Louisville, Kentucky
Metropolis Mixed-Use Development
Los Angeles, California
Mission Rock Seawall Lot 337
San Francisco, California
Monongahela Wharf
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nashville Riverfront Park
Nashville, Tennessee
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Tokyo, Japan
New Orleans Riverfront: Reinventing the Crescent
New Orleans, Louisiana
Native American Cultural Center and Museum
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
One Island East
Hong Kong, China
Parkview West
Chicago, Illinois
Parque do Tejo e Trancao - Expo '98
Lisbon, Portugal
Pennsylvania Avenue Streetscape
Washington D.C. *

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, Moscow, Russian Federation

References

*Gewertz, Ken. "Landscape Alchemist." The Harvard University Gazette. 6 Feb. 1997. 26 Oct. 2006 . *Hargreaves Associates. Hargreaves Associates. 27 Oct. 2007 . *Harvard University Graduate School of Design. "Faculty Profile." Harvard University Graduate School of Design. 27 Oct. 2007 . *Princeton Architecture Press. Princeton Press. 27 Oct. 2007 *http://ladprofile.weebly.com/george-hargreaves-1952.html *https://www.linkedin.com/company/hargreaves-associates/about/ *https://landscapetheory1.wordpress.com/tag/george-hargreaves/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Hargreaves, George 1952 births Living people Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty University of Georgia alumni

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