Jeffrey Aten

Jeff Aten joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in 2004 after earning master’s degrees in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Virginia. He has worked on private projects varying in scale from small residential gardens to large conservation agriculture farms. In the public realm he has worked on municipal parks of just a couple acres up to 1,500 acres, and higher education teaching landscapes to master plans.

His work, and his team’s work, has received accolades at the highest state, national and international levels. He has led the award-winning master plan for Memorial Park in Houston, TX and its implementation; the selected winning entry for the Ismaili Center Gardens in Houston, TX and the project’s construction; and various landscape gardens at the University of Virginia. He has served as the Vice-chair and Chair of the Charlottesville Tree Commission and loves to bike the rural roads at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.