Amy Whitesides is a registered landscape architect, practitioner, and educator. Prior to her current role at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she spent ten years in the Boston office of Stoss Landscape Urbanism where she was most recently the director of resilience. Whitesides continues to work with Stoss as an advisor on waterfront projects and has previously served as project manager on planning and design projects throughout the United States, including Stoss’s winning entry in the Dallas Connected City Design Challenge, the “Working Vacancy” proposal for revitalization of underutilized land in New Orleans, the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal in Toronto, and the West Louisville Food Port in Louisville, Kentucky.

Most recently Whitesides has focused on waterfront design and planning efforts for resilient public open space in Boston including Climate Ready East Boston and Charlestown, the Blueway concept for the New England Aquarium, the Vision Plan and Resilience Plan for Moakley Park, Boston’s Urban Forest Plan, and master planning and design efforts for Suffolk Downs and the Edison Power Plant in South Boston. Her projects at Stoss have been recognized with numerous awards including an ASLA Honor Award, a World Landscape Architecture Award of Excellence, an APA Sustainability & Resilience Award, and multiple Boston Society of Landscape Architects Awards of Merit.