Kirt Rieder

Lecturer in Landscape Architecture

Visiting Faculty

Contact Office Location

Gund 403/405

Kirt Rieder is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design focused on topographic grading design in the Ecologies, Techniques, and Technologies sequence for the MLA First Professional Degree. 

Kirt is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, licensed Landscape Architect in Massachusetts, and a principal at Hargreaves Jones.  He has worked on and managed numerous large, public projects since joining the firm in 1994, including Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco, Elm Street Plaza in Cincinnati, and several projects across the Richmond, Virginia, riverfront, notably the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge.  Kirt received a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Planning from the College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning at the University of Cincinnati.  

Courses

SCI-6142
Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies II
Karen Janosky, Catherine Miller, Kirt Rieder
Spring 2026
Lecture
4 Units