MEET THE SPEAKER
Matthew Cunningham
ASLA, RLA | Founding Principal
MCLD LLC
Blending traditional Yankee building techniques with high design, Maine native Matthew Cunningham is well-known for his plant-centric residential landscapes throughout the Northeast. His gardens feature ecologically impactful planting schemes and regionally sourced materials that evoke an authentic sense of place while showcasing his unique ability to grasp the dynamic rhythms of everyday life. With offices in Massachusetts and Maine, Cunningham's firm, MCLD, has garnered awards from ASLA, the Boston Society of Landscape Architects, and APLD, and his gardens have been widely published in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Garden Design, and New England Home. Cunningham is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and prior to founding MCLD in 2004, he worked for Reed Hilderbrand.
SESSION DESCRIPTION
One Garden at a Time: Cumulative Impacts of Residential Landscape Architecture
Residential landscape architecture is only now gaining the recognition it deserves as a first responder in an era defined by global pandemics, political turmoil, and the troubling degradation of the earth’s natural systems. The power and importance of the field has never been clearer. By mending broken ecological links, residential designers impart crucial lessons about stewardship to everyday people, ushering in benefits for community health and ecological harmony. Practitioners must stand fearless at the forefront of local solutions that add up to meet global challenges. Join Matthew Cunningham as he illuminates his firm’s reshaping of both the visual and functional paradigms of garden design, with Vectorworks at the core of their work in underscoring that the idea of “home” has never been more important.