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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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