Chris Moyles, FASLA
Category: Works
Reed Hilderbrand LLC, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Chris Moyles, of Reed Hilderbrand, received his nomination, in Works, from the Boston Society. Moyles adhered to his firm's commitment to building beautifully and sustainably and was one of the profession's leading voices for high-performance landscapes that integrate artistic practice with science and technology. His work is straightforward in its elegant spareness and essential appropriateness to site and program. Moyles believed that a site's beauty becomes most powerful when design reveals the natural systems and processes underlying a landscape's ecosystem. A passionate designer and draftsman, he lectured extensively on sustainable design practices and ways to ensure that landscape performance endures for lifetimes. He was a valued collaborator among related professionals, clients and communities while encouraging those with whom he worked to find balance and mutual respect among a site's history, architectural features and contemporary requirements.