Chris Reed
Design Critic in Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture
Chris Reed is the principal and founder of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, a Boston-based strategic design and planning practice. Stoss has distinguished itself internationally for a hybridized approach to public works projects rooted in infrastructure, functionality, and ecology. Stoss has been named finalist and winner in a number of international open space design and planning competitions, including the Erie Street Plaza in Milwaukee, the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, and the Safe Zone garden installation at Grand-Metis, Quebec, Canada. Most recently, Stoss was honored by being named one of two Finalists in the Landscape Design category of the Smithsonian / Cooper Hewitt Museum's National Design Awards. Stoss was also named a 2008 Emerging Voice by the Architectural League of New York, and its proposal for the Lower Don Lands in Toronto received a planning award from EDRA / Places / Metropolis. The firm's work has just been published in a volume published by C3 Publishers of Korea. Current and recent work includes public waterfronts, brownfield reclamation projects, interim landscapes, and large-scale infrastructures and open spaces in the United States, Canada, Asia, and the Middle East. Reed teaches regularly at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught at the Harvard Design School, and the University of Toronto. He is a registered landscape architect.