Faculty

Laurel McSherry is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center of Virginia Tech. A graduate of Rutgers University and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, she is recipient of the 1999 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Tech, Professor McSherry was head of landscape architecture at Ohio State University. In 2005, her work “Fields, Forest, Fences” was one of five finalists in the Flight 93 National Memorial Design Competition. Recently, she placed third in the 2007 Re-Envisioning Gateway Competition sponsored by the Van Alen Institute, Columbia University, and the National Parks Conservation Association, and was a finalist in the 2008 in the City of the Future Competition — Washington, sponsored by the History Channel. Presently, Professor McSherry is at work on a book indexing the landscape of the Raritan River in her home state of New Jersey.

aarmcsh@vt.edu