Landscape Architecture "” Computation "” Ecology

Bradley
Cantrell

Landscape architect and scholar working at the intersection of computation, responsive technologies, and ecological infrastructures in the design of territory.

Selected Work

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Louisiana Ecological Infrastructures
Southern Louisiana · Modeling, Simulation, Embedded Computation
Mississippi Basin Model
Vicksburg, MS · Fluvial Modeling · Adaptive Systems
Cultivant
Generational Robotics · Multi-Species Co-Creation
Tangier Island
Chesapeake Bay · Technogeographies of Sensing · Justice

Current Research

PhD Dissertation · Virginia Tech · 2026

Adaptive Epistemologies and Neo-Wilds

A practice-based investigation into how computational technologies transform the epistemic conditions of landscape design. The dissertation argues that adaptive epistemology "” design propositions tested in situ through iterative, feedback-based knowledge production "” is not merely supported by computation, but fundamentally reshaped by it. Through a decade of projects engaging ecological complexity, embedded sensing, and generational robotics, this work develops a new framework for understanding how designers know and act in territories that exceed prediction.

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Writing

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Responsive Landscapes
Routledge "” co-authored with Justine Holzman
2015
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
Wiley "” co-authored with Wes Michaels. 2nd edition 2014.
2010
Adaptive Epistemologies and Neo-Wilds
PhD Dissertation · Virginia Tech "” in progress
2026