Carl Reed

Biography

Carl “Gus” Reed comes to the DPLA having taught sustainable landscape horticulture for the past dozen years in the Wisconsin Technical College system. With a longstanding interest in international landscape design, last fall Gus had the opportunity to complete a Fulbright Specialist Grant in the Kyrgyz Republic for the City of Karakol, where he provided technical and design assistance aimed at increasing sustainable tourism and designed a new park to increase resident greenspace access. His prior professional work in landscape design includes projects for public and private clients in a wide range of environmental contexts in the U.S. Projects have included Houses at Sagaponic on the South Fork of Long Island, Casa Montecito for the Seattle Street of Dreams, Packard Hall courtyard at Colorado College and residential projects in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Wisconsin and the New York Metro area. Gus worked at Kahler Slater/Performa in Milwaukee, WI in site design and campus master planning.

With an active interest in environmental nonprofits Gus has worked or served as a board member for Groundwork Milwaukee, Victory Garden Initiative in Milwaukee, Grow-it-Forward in Manitowoc, the City of Milwaukee Home Gr/Own Taskforce and Bookworm Gardens in Sheboygan, WI.

Gus earned his MLA at Cornell University, his BA in History from Middlebury College and grew up in Colorado – a background that has fostered lifelong interests in the relationships between sustainable landscapes and the built environment, cultural attitudes towards the land, the creative process and landscape aesthetics.

Courses

In Fall of 2024 Gus will be teaching Land Arc 210: Introduction to Landscape Architecture Studio.