Bremer Whidden Pond
| Bremer Whidden Pond | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1884 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | Sept. 2, 1959 Hanover, New Hampshire |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Landscape architect |
| Years active | 1906–1936 |
Bremer Whidden Pond (1884–1959) was an American landscape architect and professor at Harvard University. He was deeply involved with two early graduate programs in landscape architecture for women: the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture.
Bremer Whidden Pond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 and got his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1906. He received his master's degree in landscape architecture from Harvard that same year. He went on to serve as secretary to the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Bremer joined Harvard’s School of Landscape Architecture in 1914 and remained at Harvard until his retirement in 1950. He eventually became the Charles Eliot Professor of Landscape Architecture and the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture in what became the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
In 1915, Harvard architecture instructor Henry Atherton Frost inaugurated an informal program of tutoring women in architecture since they could not be admitted to Harvard's male-only graduate program. Within a year, Frost had four women students and had brought Pond on board. Word about the informal program spread, and by the 1916–17 academic year, the college was advertising the experimental program and its curriculum as the Cambridge School of Architectural and Landscape Design (later to be renamed the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture). Among the women to complete the school's three-year program were landscape architects Rose Greely and Alice Recknagel Ireys.
Pond also served for a time as director of the Lowthorpe School of Landscape Architecture, another institution formed to give women access to higher education in landscape architecture.
In 1915, Pond opened his own office in Boston, and a few years later he went into partnership with Frost.
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