Professional He graduated from
Harvard College and the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Work conducted through Stoss Landscape Urbanism 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. Key projects such as Detroit Future City, Michigan, and Chouteau Greenway Framework Plan, St. Louis evidence systems-based strategies generating flexible interconnected large-scale infrastructure, housing and open space endeavours. The
Harvard Plaza project, Cambridge, Massachusetts evidences a social understanding in the design of a flexible public infrastructure. Earlier projects through which the trajectory of his work might be mapped include the Lower Don Lands on the
Toronto Waterfront, Ontario. Reed's early career was spent with
George Hargreaves at Hargreaves Associates leading such projects as the University of Cincinnati Master Plan the Louisville Waterfront Park, and the Clinton Presidential Park.
Academic He is currently professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the co-director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Program. His previous teaching experience includes visiting faculty positions in the Department of Landscape Architecture at
RISD in 2000 and 2003,
Florida International University School of Architecture in 2004, Adjunct Faculty at the
University of Toronto in 2006 and Lecturer from 2000 to 2008 and Adjunct Associate Professor from 2008 to 2009 in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Design. == Recognition ==