Patricia O’Donnell founded Heritage Landscapes, Preservation Landscape Architects and Planners in 1987 to focus exclusively on the preservation of cultural landscapes through planning, implementation, and management undertakings. With offices in Charlotte, Vermont, and Norwalk, Connecticut, the firm has completed over four hundred commissions and received 32 professional awards. Current cultural landscape preservation implementation projects carried out by O’Donnell and her Heritage Landscapes team include the Lincoln Cottage, Washington D.C.; Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania; Bamboo Brook, New Jersey; Highland, Riverview, and Schenley Parks, Pennsylvania; and the Louis I. Kahn Bathhouse Landscape, New Jersey. Current planning projects include Graycliff Cultural Landscape Report, New York; New York Botanical Garden Cultural Landscape History; and Foster, Shoaff, Weisser, and McMillan Parks and Rudisill Boulevard Cultural Landscape Report’s, Indiana; and the Mellon Square Preservation, Management and Interpretation Plan, Pennsylvania.

Current projects are focusing, in part, on sustainability and best practices application to historic landscapes. O'Donnell received two Masters’ degrees in landscape architecture and urban planning and is licensed in fourteen states. She is a founding member of the Cultural Landscape Foundation and serves as the International Federation of Landscape Architects Cultural Landscapes Committee Global Chair, encouraging communication among landscape architects world-wide to enhance recognition and expertise. A global traveler, she appreciates the vast diversity of cultural landscapes that express the unique interactions of people and places and enjoys shaping her shared cultural landscape with her spouse, Jim Donovan, at Broad Reach Farm, Charlotte, Vermont.

Artist Statement: The patron celebration at the Philip Johnson Glass House property was a perfect June day with sun, breeze, landscape, people, picnic, dance, and art in varied forms. From many digital photos taken, I choose this detail of the Glass House Pool because the image --captures the clarity of air and light of the moment; --presents a landscape element in this highly articulated property rife with landscape compositions; --shows the precision of the circular pool, painted white, that is placed in communication with the Glass House and the solid brick guesthouse.