Bio - John Russell Llandscape Architect

 

John Russell is a landscape architect, garden designer, horticulturist, and project manager with an extensive and varied background. He grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, attended Indian Springs High School, a private boarding school outside Birmingham.

 

He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1984 with a degree in neurophysiology. John spent two years in Los Angeles working for Universal Studios, returned to Birmingham in 1986, and discovered landscape architecture. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in landscape architecture in 1990, and received a master’s degree in ornamental horticulture from the University of Tennessee in 1992.

 

John Russell apprenticed at the architectural firm of Ross Fowler in Knoxville in 1992, became licensed as a landscape architect in 1994, and moved back to Birmingham to raise his family in 1996. He went to work for Masonry Arts as a project manager in the glass division working on such projects as; The Fortworth Modern Museum of Art by Tadao Aando, Jacksonville federal courthouse, Oklahoma City federal building, Sears Tower, and Pentagon restoration.

 

While working at Masonry Arts, John Russell continued garden design. In 2001, he opened the Russell Design Group, DBA John Russell Landscape Architect, specializing in residential garden design/ build. John Russell is licensed as a landscape architect in the state of Alabama.

 

Learn more about him in the upcoming coffee table book, Leading Residential Landscape Professionals; published by Sandow Media. Look for it in the spring of 2006.