Résumé Brock Cutting
Landscape Architect
Professional Experience
Dodson Associates, Ltd., Landscape Architects & Planners, Ashfield, Massachusetts. Principal: 1998 - Present, Project Manager and Landscape Architect: 1986 - Present
Landscape Architect and project manager on projects ranging in scale from private gardens
at historic residences through elementary school siteplans to highway corridor studies.
Has developed masterplans for museum, college and corporate campuses and has worked
extensively in redevelopment of state facilities and underused mill complexes as well as on
the development of new growth centers.
Experienced in public participation and public consensus-building and in working collaboratively on multi-disciplinary teams. Has performed extenisve peer review and expert testimony re: visual character and site plan review standards. Experienced in design of park facilities, accessible design of public spaces and recreational areas, trails, creation of public access and planting plans using native species for restoration.
Dumont Research, Planning and Design, Somerville, MA
Senior Associate, Project Manager and Landscape Architect: 1994 - 1996. Responsible for masterplanning and parcel accommodation studies for a new village of 250 detached residences on approx. 800 acres in the towns of Stratham, Greenland and North Hampton, NH as well as member of the design team for masterplanning of a new 1,500,000 square foot, mixed-use town center in Hampton, NH. Masterplanning, design development and client meetings for locating a new campus for Hebrew College of Brookline, Massachusetts alongside the existing historic campus of the Andover -Newton Theological Seminary near Newton Center, Massachusetts.
Selected Projects
Brock Cutting has worked as Landscape Architect and Project Manager on masterplans through Construction Documents and Construction Observation for many recreational and park facilities for State and Municipal Departments.
Recently he is completing a project to comprehensively renovate and relocate park facilities at the second most popular beach in the Massachusetts State Park System, Horseneck Beach State Reservation in Westport, MA. Project manager for Restoration of Greylock Summit - sitework and trail restoration for the (then) Department of Environmental Management for the summit of the highest mountain in Massachusetts including historic Bascom Lodge and areas of protected species.
Brock has a developed specialty in Planting Plans incorporating native species, L.I.D. and biofiltration:
Treehouse Community, Easthampton, MA (for Beacon Communities, Llc.) - Ch. 40B permitting, planting design and construction observation for an innovative inergenerational community- community for foster care.
C & S Corporate Headquarters, Keene, NH (w. Kohn, Pedersen, Fox)
Monadnock Marketplace, Keene, NH (for Konover Development) - Planting Masterplan,
expert testimony and construction observation.
89 Oxbow Affordable Housing, Wayland, MA - planting plans and planting details for infiltration basins.
Masterplans, Site Design, Playing Field and Planting Design for Educational Facilities
Educational Institutions:
Scanlon Hall, Westfield State College - renovation, new plantings and new, accessible front entrance and entry plaza ( with Prellwitz, Chilinski Architectss, Inc.) at this residential campus.
New England Adolescent Research Institute, Inc. (NEARI); - parcel accommodation studies, Green School Charrette and site design for parcel with endangered species issues.
Prepared design alternatives through C.D.'s and C.O. for Williamstown Elementary School,
Lunenburg Primary School, Bernardston Elementary School, New Hingham Elementary School and the Heath Elementary School including extensive pedestrian and vehicular circulation design, playground and athletic field design.
Hebrew College, Brookline - masterplanning study for relocation of campus.
Redevelopment and Sustainable Site Design:
Atkins Corner Sustainable Development Masterplan; site design concepts, public design
charrettes and Masterplan ( for Town of Amherst and U.S. EPA) for creating a new, sustainable
growth center and intersection improvements at the southern gateway to Amherst, MA.
Rt. 31 Corridor Study, Hopewell, NJ; - masterplan for corridor improvements for a nine mile
stretch of highway including two existing borough centers.
New York City D.E.P. Model Watershed Protection Sites, Kent, NY & Patterson Hamlet, NY. Project manager and landscape architect for model sites showing how to tie development of new mixed use village areas to clean-up of existing septic contamination /stormwater run-off problems.
Project manager for the Albemarle County, Virginia Growth Management Initiatives. Albemarle County surrounds the City of Charlottesville sought a vision and implementation methods for directing their projected growth through 2015 into 13 neighborhoods and villages at the periphery of the City. Dodson Associates worked with the County Planners, CHK Architects and a 21 person steering committee to answer the question of how these new neighborhoods should function and relate to existing development and what they should look like. Dodson Associates had special responsibility for the edge where these neighborhoods meet land still in a rural condition. Helped to organize and facilitate two full-day public design charrettes focused on three actual neighborhoods.
Masterplan for Housing and Related Commercial Development:
Project Manager for redevelopment of the former Mansfield Training School Campus, an 840 acre state mental health facility including 96 existing buildings totaling close to 900,000 square feet of floor area. This project represents the first model in Connecticut for the redevelopment of surplus state lands that balances local village of mixed uses, incomes and building types.
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art , North Adams, MA.; Adaptive re-use of a 25 building mill complex to form the largest art museum complex in Massachusetts.
Teaching & Research
University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning
Amherst, Massachusetts: Adjunct Professor for eleven different undergraduate and graduate studio design courses. These have included studios in introductory design, residential scale design, adaptive re-use and village infill, and a lecture course in Professional Practice.
Awards
• American Planning Association, Mass. Chapter, 2003 Outstanding Planning Award for Atkin's
Corner.
• American Institute of Architects, 2002 Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design for The
Neighborhood Model: Development Area Initiatives Study, Albemarle Co. Virginia.
• Tennessee Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1999 Honor Award for High-
way 321 Corridor Study, Townsend, Tenessee.
• Boston Society of Landscape Architects, 1992 Merit Award for Mansfield Training School/
Boston Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1992 Merit Award for Redevelo-
pment of Mansfield Training School, Mansfield, CT/
• American Society of Landscape Architects, National Publication and Merit Award for Dealing
with Change in the Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual / National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1989 Preservation Award/ American Planning Association,
New England Chapter, 1988 Planning Award.
Professional Registration
Rhode Island Registered Landscape Architect #321
Public Service
Town of Shelburne, Mass. Planning Board for 13 years, Chair for 5 years.
Shelburne Falls Streetscape and Amenity Committee
Arms Library Accessibility Project
Education
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Masters in Landscape Architecture, 1986
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts
BA Visual and Environmental Studies, 1977
