Kramer's visit is sponsored by the Amherst College Programs in Architectural Studies, European Studies, and Environmental Studies and by the Department of Art and the History of Art, the Corliss Lamont Lectureship for a Peaceful World, and the Lucius Root Eastman 1895 Fund. All are welcome.
Eric Kramer, ASLA, is a landscape architect and a principal with Reed Hilderbrand, the landscape architecture firm based in Cambridge, MA, which received the 2013 American Society of Landscape Architects’ Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the highest award the ASLA bestows upon a landscape architecture firm in recognition of distinguished work that influences the profession. Eric Kramer is committed to augmenting and sharing the design knowledge Reed Hilderbrand has built through his engagement in research, collaboration, and teaching. Eric’s advocacy for sustainable practices as a foundation of design expression has brought him before national audiences as a lecturer and panelist, as well as into the classroom: He also teaches landscape design studios and landscape history and theory at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Connecticut College. Eric Kramer’s most visible projects include Boston's Central Wharf Plaza; a decade-long engagement with The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and a new civic landscape at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City.
Eric is a 1993 graduate of Amherst College, and was recognized as one of its Thomas J. Watson Fellows. After completing his Master in Landscape Architecture at Harvard, he journeyed to Europe and Japan under the auspices of the prestigious Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship, to study the relationships between literature and historic gardens and landscapes.