MLA, Virginia Tech

BFA, Painting and Drawing, Auburn University

Amanda Foran, PLA, ASLA is a Visiting Instructor in the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program, teaching classes in plant taxonomy, field identification, and ecology. She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Virginia Tech, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from Auburn University. A licensed landscape architect at EnviroCollab (Baltimore), Amanda has lived along the Atlantic seaboard and practiced in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of the United States for nearly a decade. As a former instructor at the Boston Architectural College, she taught foundation and advanced graduate studios in architecture and landscape architecture. Through her practice, Amanda advocates for and experiments with the use of hyper-local materials and the design of native plant communities. A seed collector and container gardener, she has engaged in horticultural experimentation as an art practice, and advocates for extending more gardening practices into landscape architecture. Amanda is passionate about collaboration, locally grounded community partners, and bringing a playful and energetic spirit to both learning and design.