Cole is a third-year Master of Landscape architecture candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Raised in the creeks and forests of middle Tennessee, he developed an intimate relationship with the natural landscapes of the South from an early age. An art history major in college, Cole studied Italian Renaissance painting in Florence and completed a thesis on subjectivity in contemporary self-portraiture. As he considered life after undergrad, landscape architecture presented itself as an exciting intersection of his interests in public art, collective memory, and experiential engagement with nature.
Prior to beginning the MLA, Cole worked as a residential landscape designer in Nashville. He has since spent his winter and summer breaks working in Boston, NYC, and Charlottesville at firms working at varying scales and locales in planning and landscape architecture. He currently serves as the president of the UTK ASLA chapter. In his free time, Cole can be found marathon training or expanding his vinyl collection.
