Mary Hughes

Mary Hughes, FASLA, has served as the University Landscape Architect since 1996. After graduating with an MLA from the UVA School of Architecture,  she worked for the National Park Service.  Along with Peter Hatch of Monticello, Ms. Hughes serves as co-director of the Historic Landscape Institute, an adult education program featuring the Jefferson landscapes of central Virginia as laboratories for applying historical horticulture and preservation practices.    She is the co-editor with Charles Birnbaum of a book,  Design with Culture: Claiming America’s Landscape Heritage, which chronicles the origins of the landscape preservation movement in the United States.