2023 Class of Fellows, Kirt Rieder, Boston Chapter

Hargreaves Jones, Cambridge, MA
by Staff

Boston Chapter - Category: Works

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Boston Chapter - Category: Works

Kirt Rieder has advanced knowledge and techniques of land formation and material detail to produce award-winning projects that delight their users and work with the dynamics of natural processes in order to make cities, riverfronts, and neighborhoods more resilient and equitable for all users. With over 25 years of experience as a firm leader at Hargreaves Jones, Kirt has served as principal-in-charge of some of the firm's most celebrated projects and is a recognized master of the art of landscape grading, creating carefully sculpted topographies that are integrated with bold design concepts. His projects craft landforms that function efficiently for drainage, accessibility, and soil stabilization, while revealing site history and ecology and amplifying cultural expression. For Crissy Field, San Francisco, Kirt developed early design concepts for this 100-acre site based on intensive archival research and he developed the grading strategy of cutting 18 acres of soil volume for the constructed tidal marsh, reconfiguring this same volume over the 30-acre restored grass airfield. Reinventing the Crescent Master Plan and Crescent Park, New Orleans, was a multidisciplinary design team collaboration on the more than 5-mile-long post-industrial waterfront master plan, identifying sites for parks and open space; the first realized project, Crescent Park, turned derelict port lands into a 20-acre public park. Kirt led development of the Richmond Riverfront Plan, Richmond, VA, which was a vision for recentering downtown on the James River and included the T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge, an adaptation of a1901-era dam as a 1,778-foot-long shared-use trail.