Fumihiko Maki Lecture: Gina Ford and Brie Hensold

Gina Ford, FASLA
Principal and Co-Founder, Agency Landscape + Planning

Gina Ford is a landscape architect, co-founder and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. Underpinning her two decades of practice are a commitment to the design and planning of public places and the perpetuation of the value of landscape architecture via thought leadership, teaching, writing, and lecturing.  Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She is on the stewardship council for the Cultural Landscape Foundation, the board of directors for the City Park Alliance, and was the recipient of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship and Wellesley College’s Shaw Fellowship. She co-founded WxLA, a nonprofit focused on gender justice in design practice.

Brie Hensold, HASLA
Principal and Co-Founder, Agency Landscape + Planning
Brie Hensold is an urban planner, co-founder, and principal of Agency Landscape + Planning. With a passion for understanding and improving communities and places, Brie brings a systems-based approach that integrates multiple disciplines and celebrates diverse perspectives. She has extensive experience developing creative and meaningful community engagement processes for planning and design projects. Brie’s experience encompasses multiple scales, from downtown plans to citywide park systems to resilience strategies. Her work has received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Planning Association, and the American Institute of Architects, among others. She co-teaches an executive education class in resilient cities at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

One AIA continuing education credit available.

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