Patents, Innovation, Planting Design, Vegetated Architecture 

Richard Hindle teaches courses in ecological technology, planting design, and site design studios.  Professor Hindle's research focuses on technology in the garden and landscape with an emphasis on material processes, innovation, and patents. His current research explores innovation in landscape related technologies across a range of scales, from large-scale mappings of riverine and coastal patents to detailed historical studies on the antecedents of vegetated architectural systems.

A recurring theme in Hindle’s work is the tandem history, and future, of technology and landscape. His writing and making explores the potential of new technological narratives and material processes to reframe theory, practice, and the production of landscape. He is a published author with articles appearing in Landscape Architecture Magazine, UC Berkeley’s Ground-Up Journal, and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. In 2012 he received a Graham Foundation Award for the reconstruction of the “Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and Systems” and continues to explore the technological origins of other emergent technologies. Richard has worked as a consultant and designer, specializing in the design of advanced horticultural and building systems, from green roofs and facades to large-scale urban landscapes. He has worked with firms such as Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Steven Holl Architects, Rios Clementi Hale Studios, and Atelier Jean Nouvel. Hindle holds degrees in horticulture and landscape architecture from Cornell University and the Rhode Island School of Design, respectively.

Check out some of my student's work from Spring 2017!

Ecological Sea Walls and Breakwaters (LDARCH 226 Innovation Seminar)

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Patent Scenarios for the Mississippi River. In: Journal of Architectural Education (Themed Volume: Environments 2017)

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Prototyping the Mississippi Delta: patents, alternative futures, and the design of complex environmental systems. IN: Journal of Landscape Architecture JOLA, 2-2017    

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18626033.2017.1361084

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Levees that Might Have Been. In: Places Journal

https://placesjournal.org/article/levees-that-might-have-been/

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c79f2kg

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Patents and Place: Intellectual Property and Site Specificity. In: Forty-Five Journal of Outside Research

http://forty-five.com/papers/139

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Infrastructures of Innovation. In: Scaling Infrastructure @MIT CAU 

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat04202a&AN=ucb.b23275206&site=eds-live

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35w9h33k

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Inventing Landscapes. In: Landscape Architecture Magazine August 2013 

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rz513dr

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A vertical garden: origins of the Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and System (1938). In: studies in the history of gardens and designed landscapes

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14601176.2011.653535

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GEOGRAPHIES OF INNOVATION (Exhibition Booklet) http://issuu.com/richardhindlerichardl.hindle/docs/geograhies_of_innovation

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Territorial Technologies. (Workshop Booklet)

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bf831sw#page-7

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Stanley Hart White and the Question of "What is Modern" In  In: studies in the history of gardens and designed landscapes

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14601176.2013.807653