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Norfolk, Virginia native, Kent Brinkley is an award-winning
landscape architect and author, whose professional career
spans over thirty years. He graduated from Kempsville High
School in Virginia Beach and attended Mary Baldwin College’s
Adult Degree Program in Richmond, Virginia, pursuing a B.A.
degree in History, with a minor in Historic Preservation.
He studied landscape architecture at the Gloucestershire College
of Art and Technology in England. In 1989, he completed the
Attingham Summer School on the British Country House in England,
visiting/studying over thirty-five country house gardens.
Kent joined
Basnight Land and Lawn, Inc. in January 2004, and now serves
as our company’s Landscape Architect. He is licensed via exam
as a Certified Landscape Architect (CLA) in Virginia, and
has been an occasional, visiting lecturer for the Landscape
Architecture degree programs at the University of Virginia;
George Washington University; the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University; and for Monticello’s annual, Summer
Landscape Institute program.
Brinkley
formerly served (1985-2003) as Landscape Architect for the
303-acre Colonial Williamsburg outdoor living history museum,
where his duties included site planning, landscape design,
historic landscape research, and staff/volunteer interpreter
training. In 1989, Colonial Williamsburg's Shields Tavern
project won a Virginia ASLA Chapter, Honor Award for Brinkley’s
site/landscape designs.
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