Peter Wilder

A childhood growing up amid the stunning landscape of Australia was the inspiration for Peter Wilder, director of MacFarlane Wilder, to first consider a career in landscape architecture.

Peter, who as a child lived around 40 kilometres outside Melbourne, Victoria, discovered the profession at school and began down a career path he has not deviated from.

Today, his CV includes stints working on the Pottsdamer Platz in Berlin, Paddington Central in London, as well as the regeneration of Dalton Park in Newcastle.

Peter says: “There’s so much opportunity to make a difference in the UK. There’s so much happening here. One week you could be working on an airport in China, the next a city centre scheme in Moscow and the next working on the Olympics. London is a world class design centre. I’m a problem solver. I’ve always wanted to solve problems – how to build things and get things to work.”

After moving to the UK, Wilder studied Landscape Architecture at Greenwich University, interspersed by a two-year stint in Berlin.

He then worked for several practices, included Lovejoy and Kim Wilkie Associates, before setting up MacFarlane Wilder with Glen MacFarlane in June 2003.