JOHN HRENO
Landscape Design · Studio Leadership · Practice Growth
I design landscapes rooted in place, ecology and human experience.
Selected Work
Design Leadership
For 20+ years, leadership has meant authoring design, directing teams, and earning the trust that lets complex work move from idea to place.
Berkley Riverfront at CPKC Stadium
Public realm · Multidisciplinary leadership · Project direction
Directing a multidisciplinary team across agency, engineering and design to deliver a civic riverfront for Kansas City.
T.O.D.
International · Design leadership · Complex urban infrastructure
Leading design across international collaborators to turn China’s first high-speed-rail TOD into public experience.
Wabi-Sabi House
Design authorship · Client leadership · Construction + installation
Authoring the design and guiding client and craft from concept through installation.
Relationships + Practice
A professional relationship becomes a commission. The commission expands in scope; the scope becomes a design; the design leads construction and installation; the built work draws recognition and press; and the relationship continues.
The Wabi-Sabi House is that arc in a single project — from client relationship to design authorship, to award-winning built work and press, to an ongoing collaboration.
Selected Institutional Relationships + Pursuits
- The Getty / Gehry Partners
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- University of Southern California (USC)
Experience
For 20+ years, across scales from private gardens to civic infrastructure and geographies from California to Asia, the work has held a single standard: design that earns its place. Experience here is not a record — it is the ground for what comes next.
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