Reid Bertone-Johnson, Associate

Reid Bertone-Johnson is a landscape designer who integrates technological tools including GIS, CAD, and 3D modeling into the design process. He works on projects ranging from regional viewshed analyses of historically sensitive areas and newly proposed wind farms to historic preservation of towns, village centers, and cultural landscapes. Reid also helps to develop smart growth scenarios and visualizations of the impacts of sustainable, low impact design (LID) zoning by-laws and subdivision regulations. Reid earned a B. S. in geological sciences and environmental studies from Tufts University and also holds a M. L. A. from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an Ed. M. from Harvard University. He was awarded an ASLA Honor Award for his student work in the MLA program, from which he graduated in 2006.

Bertone-Johnson currently divides his professional time between Dodson Associates and Smith College, where he is a lecturer for the Art Department and Landscape Studies program. He also consults on the Warren H. Manning research project for the Library of American Landscape History.

Prior to his recent career change, Bertone-Johnson was a science teacher at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, where he taught earth science, environmental science, and a wilderness survival course.

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