About | Tara Armistead, Landscape Architect

Tara Armistead has a keen love of nature combined with an artist’s eye for detail. She serves on the Board of The Nature Conservancy, The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and The Global Advisory Board of Thistle Farms. Tara graduated with High Distinction from the University of Virginia, and holds her Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan. Tara Armistead Landscape Architecture was founded in 1987. Her small and intensive practice designs landscapes that deepen the connection between nature and culture by listening, collaborating and creating. She has worked on the design and preservation of Nashville’s largest park, and was Vanderbilt University’s first Landscape Architect.
Her projects often span family generations, giving a quality of longevity and sustainability to her work. Her values are reflected in her home, where she has geothermal heating, a water cistern and an ever changing landscape of native plants.