Tharp Design Landscape Architecture

Erin Monk-Tharp, ASLA, PLA

Erin Tharp is the owner of Tharp Design, a landscape architecture firm in Morristown, TN.  She graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in Journalism and went on to be a flight attendant for Delta Airlines. After flying for seven years she returned to school and received a Masters Degree in Landscape Design from Columbia University and went on to be the lead landscape designer for 3 Creek Ranch Golf Club in Jackson Hole, Wy. 

She returned to Tennessee in 2009 and went on to receive her Master’s in Landscape Architecture from the University of Tennessee and received her license in 2014. She has worked in design-build and as a residential designer since graduation and has been Writer of the Year for Landscape Architects Network for the last two years and is currently serving as their Content Director. She is also the current Chair of East TN Association of Landscape Architects.

Erin and her husband, Michael have one daughter, Lorelei. When they aren’t watching her play soccer or cheer they are chasing their two giant dogs, Jake and Sadie. On their days off they enjoy hiking, sailing and traveling with Lorelei. It is in her off-time where she always finds inspiration for her designs.