NYBG’s 28th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series welcomes three renowned professionals who will explore how landscape architecture can honor the past, respond to the present, and cultivate a more resilient future through a deep understanding of place. Across projects ranging from memorials and historic restorations to public gardens and urban forests, Maura Rockcastle, ASLA, PLA; Douglas Hoerr, FASLA; and Eric Kramer, FASLA will share stories of thoughtful design that’s shaped by a deep engagement with cultural narratives, ecological systems, and the unique character of each site.
November 10th, 2026
6:30-7:30pm
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To plant a tree, to design a garden grove, to nurture an urban forest—these are inherently optimistic acts. Today, landscape architects are working across these scales, designing the spaces of our future and making choices about how we remain in productive dialogue with our past. As partner and principal of Reed Hilderbrand, Eric Kramer, FASLA, is committed to upholding this dialogue through innovative planting detail, the engagement of place and cultural narrative, and the activism of politics and government policy.
Through the lens of a small urban plaza in Boston, the effusive public gardens of Longwood Reimagined, and the City of Cambridge, MA’s expansive Urban Forest, Kramer will explore how his design work responds to the complexity of the moment in which we are living.