John Kett

John Kett is a Partner and Managing Principal of Reed Hilderbrand, a landscape architecture practice based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New Haven, Connecticut. Reed Hilderbrand engages in diverse commissions throughout North America and in Europe, including public parks, urban centers, cultural and academic campuses, and private residences.

John has directed the practice’s work on important commissions for parks and public spaces, including Boston’s Franklin Park; New Orleans Museum of Art’s expanded Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden in City Park; Montague Park in Chattanooga; San Antonio’s Brackenridge Park; and is currently supporting the Boston Sunlight in Parks Study for the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. John’s passion for the economic, social, and personal dimensions of practice has inspired his leadership of Reed Hilderbrand’s studio culture and informs its ethos.

John holds a Master of Landscape Architecture and a Bachelor in English from the University of Virginia where he is appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer in Landscape Architecture.