Eva Gildea

Eva Gildea is a landscape architect and painter based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is completing a Master of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where her work investigates hysteresis and path dependence in drowning coastal salt marshes as a framework for design intervention.

Before graduate school, she spent two years at Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates in Brooklyn, working across 2,000 acres of large scale urban parks from concept through construction. Her research spans spatial wildfire risk, urban tree ecophysiology, and the anthropology of home energy use.

In 2025 she founded One Tree Good Day, a Cambridge based landscape design practice dedicated to ecological restoration and native planting. She explores mixed media from oil painting, to mineral pigments, to trees and soil, to computation and simulation in her studio practice which informs how she reads and designs landscapes.