Jesse Forrester

Jesse Forrester

Adjunct Faculty Landscape Architecture and Horticulture

Email jesse.forrester@temple.edu

Direct (267) 847-1726

Jesse Forrester is a 2004 alum of Temple University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in landscape architecture.

His professional career began at the Olin Partnership (now Olin) working on the Mill River Park and Greenway, Bethel Performing Arts Center, and UC Berkeley Memorial Stadium. He then spent over a decade at Jonathan Alderson Landscape Architects, managing high-end residential landscape projects, the Longwood Gardens Meadow Garden, and various parks, campus and hospital landscapes.

He started his own practice in 2021 designing private gardens, hospital grounds, and landscapes for small-scale high-density multifamily residential developments. In 2015, he began teaching landscape design at the Barnes Arboretum’s horticulture certificate program before moving on to teaching at Tyler in 2019.