Bradley Cantrell is a landscape architect and scholar working at the intersection of computation, responsive technologies, and ecological infrastructures. His practice and research explore how computational thinking transforms the design and understanding of territory "” not as a set of tools, but as a fundamental reorientation of how designers know and act in complex ecological systems.

A decade of work in Southern Louisiana "” engaging the overlapping physical, cultural, and economic complexity of the Mississippi Delta "” forms the core of his practice. This work develops methods of modeling, simulation, and embedded computation that stay in relation to systems that exceed prediction: fluvial processes, coastal land loss, multi-species agency, and the politics of environmental sensing.

He is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia. He has held appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture.