Richard L. Hindle
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
- Specializations
Patents, Innovation, Planting Design, Vegetated Architecture
- Education
- Cornell University. B.S. Horticulture
- Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) MLA
- Biography
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.
- Courses Taught
- LD ARCH 111 PLANTS IN DESIGN: From natural precedents to urban systems
- LD ARCH 200a FOUNDATIONS IN LAEP: Modalities of the Urban Landscape
- LD ARCH 254 LAEP INNOVATION SEMINAR: Hard Habitats
- LD ARCH 204 CAPSTONE STUDIO: Detours in Detail
- Awards + Recognition
- Graham Foundation Grant for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts "Reconstructing the 'Vegetation-Bearing Architectonic Structure and System (1938)' http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/4834-reconstructing-the-vegetation-bearing-architectonic-structure
- Selected Publications
"Levees that Might Have Been" https://placesjournal.org/article/levees-that-might-have-been/
GEOGRAPHIES OF INNOVATION Exhibition http://issuu.com/richardhindlerichardl.hindle/docs/geograhies_of_innovation
Patents and Place: Intellectual Property and Site Specificity http://forty-five.com/papers/139
Scaling Infrastructure @MIT CAU http://escholarship.org/uc/item/35w9h33k
Territorial Technologies http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bf831sw#page-7
Inventing Landscapes, In: Landscape Architecture Magazine http://horticulturalbuildingsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/LAM-Aug2013-Patents.pdf