Prof. Warren T. Byrd, Jr. has taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture for over 20 years. He was chair of the department from 1986 to 1992. He currently teaches design studios in the second and third year and courses in plants and drawing. Prof. Byrd is involved in an active private practice, heading a ten-person firm (Susan Nelson-Warren Byrd, Landscape Architects) in Charlottesville, Virginia. This professional work includes public gardens (botanic gardens and arboreta), parks, town planning, institutional site planning, corporate (work/plan) environments and private gardens.
Current projects include Nike's European Headquarters in the Netherlands, park and landscape development for a new town in Florida's panhandle, a new panda exhibit for the National Zoo in Washington, DC, site planning and landscape developement for several Ford Motor Company sites, sites and landscape plans for the Sarah P. Duke Garden at Duke University, master plans for the State Arboretum of Virginia, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, and Marie Selby Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, and numberous small and large private gardens in New York, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan and Virginia.
Prof. Byrd continues to publish articles, lectures, serves on awards juries and election panels and participates in design workshops for public planning initiatives throughout the country.
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