Charlotte Barrows, PLA, LEED
Senior Associate
A skillful project manager with more than twenty years of experience, Charlotte Barrows brings knowledge and passion to her work on cultural, public, and historic landscapes. She joined NBW in 2013 and is a Registered Landscape Architect and LEED Accredited Professional. Charlotte works with diverse clients and teams to reveal the essence of each place while setting new standards for accessibility, stormwater management, and biodiversity.
Many of her projects at NBW focus on restoring and rehabilitating cultural landscapes such as the Cedar Dell at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY; Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia; The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts; Jay Heritage Center in Rye, New York; Camp Chewonki in Wiscasset, Maine; the gardens at Mount Cuba Center, Delaware; and Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York. Current projects include the Welsh Fountain Garden at West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the Norman Rockwell Museum Comprehensive Landscape Plan, the Mount Vernon Comprehensive Landscape Plan; development at St. Charles Borromeo in Lower Merion Township, and implementation of the strategic plans at Olana State Historic Site. Her work at Olana has led to collaborations with Anne Godfrey at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry SUNY on her book Active Landscape Photography: Diverse Practices. In addition, Charlotte’s work at Mount Cuba has led to her co-authoring a chapter in An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible, edited by Heather Pressman.
Charlotte holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is an annual guest lecturer for the course “Landscape Histories and Theories” at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has served on numerous academic design juries at Cornell University, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Pennsylvania State University, and Boston Architectural College. Charlotte is a Fellow at Urban Design Forum and is a member of Urban Design Forum’s Rewire: Biodiverse Places initiative.
