Edwards, Warren

William Warren Edwards (1929- ) was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He attended North Carolina State College School of Design (later North Carolina State University College of Design) where he earned his landscape architecture degree around 1958. He won a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Research Fellowship in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. In the early 1960s, he worked at various times for Lewis Clarke Associates, Richard Bell and Associates, O'Neill Ford, and Frederic Stresau. He was an adjunct instructor at Oklahoma State University Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture intermittently between 1969 and 2008. Since 1987 he has been an adjunct associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture. Edwards is most noted for his residential gardens and expertise with plant materials. His garden designs have appeared in <title render="italic">Southern Living</title> magazine numerous times.