Peter Frank Viteretto, FASLA

Heritage Landscapes LLC, Norwalk, CT
by Staff

Connecticut Chapter Category: Knowledge

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Connecticut Chapter Category: Knowledge

Peter Viteretto is a passionate and effective advocate for legacy public landscapes and is at the forefront of revitalizing our modernist landscape heritage. For over thirty years, he has run the Connecticut office of Heritage Landscapes and led the design and implementation efforts for all its built works, many of national significance. This ASLA 2019 Firm of the Year has accrued over ninety state and national awards. Peter's extensive knowledge of landscape design history, his collaborative leadership, and his contagious enthusiasm have also been critical to that success. His scholarship, design sensitivity, and dedication to quality, functionality and economic vitality have won the respect of clients and peers. Among those award-winning projects are the Mellon Square restoration, Pittsburgh; Bath House, Day Camp and Community Green, Ewing, NJ, where he used Louis Kahn's unrealized design for a central green; Jackson Park, Great Lakes and Fisheries Natural Areas Project and Framework Plan, Chicago, an Olmsted landscape and site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; and U.S. Capitol Grounds, Cultural Landscape Reports, Washington, DC, balancing the cultural importance of the Olmsted landscapes with contemporary security and programming. In Peter's long career he has demonstrated a mastery of melding the historical, social, environmental, aesthetic, and sustainable aspects of landscape architecture. His work exemplifies a quiet devotion toward uplifting public spaces, engaging diverse communities, and revitalizing our nation's most treasured landscapes.