Faye Harwell, a co-founder of Rhodeside & Harwell, has 30 years of experience designing award-winning landscape architectural projects throughout the United States, Canada, and overseas. She received her MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied with Ian McHarg. Licensed to practice landscape architecture in seven states, she has also lectured and taught at numerous universities. Harwell is known for her expertise in historic preservation and sustainable design and her built projects have a strong focus on craft and detail. Her work has been published extensively, including lead articles in Landscape Architecture and People Magazine. Harwell is a frequent lecturer at conferences and universities and she was featured in the documentary film Reigning in the Storm, which focused on her low-impact landscape design for the Alexandria, Virginia Central Library.

Harwell’s extensive work on significant historic landscapes includes rehabilitation of six Olmsted parks in New Jersey; Washington, D.C.; and Maryland. Her contemporary work includes designs for numerous US Embassy landscapes worldwide, as well as the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, and the garden courts of the Bonsai/Penjing Museum at the US National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. She is an ASLA Trustee.

Artist’s Statement
"Every object in a garden, utilitarian or otherwise, should be satisfying to the hand and the eye. I made these drawings for a client who believes in craft-as-part-of-life as strongly as I do. Fabrication by a local ironsmith included hand-wrought black iron, with accents of hammered bronze. The project was a private garden in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia, completed in 1994."