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Born: 1875, Died: 1947

Born in Taunton, MA, Henry Vincent Hubbard graduated from Harvard College in 1897 and then continued on at the Massachusetts Institute ot Technology, where he completed one year in the course in architecture. After that one year, however, he returned to Harvard and studied with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., earning an A.M in 1900 and the S.B. in 1901, both landscape architecture. According to Pioneers of American Landscape Design his was the first degree awarded in landscape architecture as an "independent professional course of study."

Having studied with Olmsted, Jr., Hubbard entered the Olmsted Brothers firm in 1901 and then traveled to Europe in the company of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. From 1906 to 1918 Hubbard was in a partnership with H.P. White and James Sturgis Pray in Boston (Pray, Hubbard & White). During World War I Hubbard worked as a designer for the U.S. Army and then consulted for the Housing Commission of the Council of National Defense and the U.S. Shipping Board. He was also acting managaer of the Town Planning Division of the U,.S. Housing Corporation.

After the war Hubbard was again employed by Olmsted Brothers and became a partner in 1920. His time as a planner and designer during World War I equipped him with skills that served well in the post-War years when he was employed as a planning consultant for Boston, Baltimore, and Providence (RI).

Like Charles Downing Lay and Robert Wheelwright, Hubbard was concerned about the profession of landscape architecture. In 1910 he, Lay and Wheelwright established Landscape Architecture, intended to serve the professional architect. Hubbard was also involved with the education of the landscape architect. He returned to Harvard on the faculty of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture; and when Harvard established a program in city planning, Hubbard was awarded the Charles Dyer Norton Professorship in Regional Planning.

Written by Sandra L. Tatman.

School Affiliations

  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

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