Grounds improvements, Dawson’s Row, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. (Photo: JMA).










 

Jane J. Jacobs, ASLA
Project Manager
Landscape Architect

Jane Jacobs is a certified landscape architect with a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the School of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University. After graduation from Cornell, she taught as an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University and the University of Virginia. After eleven years in academia, she has spent the past twenty years practicing landscape architecture in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Virginia, specializing in master plans for historic sites and preservation of cultural landscapes. She began work with JMA in July 2007, having spent the previous eight years working as senior project manager for the Historic Jamestowne Project and landscape architect for major new facilities developed for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. 

Laura L. Knott, ASLA
Project Manager
Principal Landscape Architect

Laura Knott received her master's degree in historic preservation from the University of Texas in 2004 and her master's degree in landscape architecture from Louisiana State University in 1991. The study and preservation of historic landscapes is Ms. Knott's principal area of concentration. After graduation in 2004, she taught landscape technology and cultural landscape preservation at the University of Texas. Prior to beginning her most recent graduate work, she was in private practice in Austin, Texas, focusing on park and public facility design, such as the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Ms. Knott joined JMA in September 2005, and has fourteen years' experience as a landscape architect.

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