Kirt Rieder
Principal, FASLA, RLA
Kirt Rieder has served as Principal-in-Charge of some of the firm’s most celebrated projects, including the Reinventing the Crescent Master Plan & Crescent Park in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as well as Crissy Field in San Francisco, California. His expertise in the resilient planning and construction of urban waterfront landscapes is particularly notable, including the recently completed Richmond Riverfront Plan & T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge in Richmond, Virginia. A powerful advocate for landscape architecture and the potential of public open space to drive the physical and cultural evolution of cities, Mr. Rieder demonstrates how challenging and complicated sites can be creatively refigured as valued cultural and ecological resources.
Mr. Rieder holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Urban Planning from the University of Cincinnati. He is a registered landscape architect in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and serves on the Planning Board in Salem, Massachusetts.
Select Projects
T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge
Richmond Riverfront Plan