Jan Johnsen

Jan Johnsen, is a principal of Johnsen Landscapes & Pools a landscape design and construction firm located in Bedford Hills, NY. Her firm is known for design and installation of grounds for residential properties. Johnsen has been in the landscape design profession for over 30 years. Her experience includes working in landscape architecture and planning offices in Kenya, Japan, Hawaii, New Orleans, Vermont and New York. She is the recipient of many awards for design and teaching, including an award from Progressive Architecture magazine for rooftop greenhouses in New York City. Johnsen has several books to her credit, her latest being is Ortho’s All About Trees. She is currently working on a book about sacred gardens. Her work has also been published in books and magazines. Johnsen received an undergraduate degree with a major in landscape architecture from Friends World College and a graduate degree in land planning from University of New Orleans.

Jan Johnsen teaches Landscape Design Studio I: Site Analysis and Schematic Design and Landscape Design Studio IV: Residential and Smaller Scale Design.