Adaptation and invention are at the heart of Bennington’s identity as an American liberal arts college. Set in rural Vermont, the institution grew incrementally, first by shaping facilities from their site’s agricultural and Beaux Arts estate legacies. Later investments produced modernist works and campus patterns not well integrated as a whole. Reed Hilderbrand came to the campus in 2005 to create a landscape framework plan that would help site new housing, and later Tod Williams Billie Tsien’s Center for the Advancement of Public Action. Having acted as stewards of the campus landscape character, natural systems, and ecological functions for the past two decades, the practice now looks ahead to Bennington’s future.