Among the projects of Edward Pinckney/Associates Ltd. is Tradition Hilton Head in Hardeeville, S.C., a 5,300-acre master planned community.

The Clemson University Alumni has honored J. Edward Pinckney, FASLA with an Achievement Award, recognizing him as the "father of modern landscape architecture in South Carolina, and designer of environmentally friendly coastal communities."

Pinckney grew up in Walterboro, S.C. He received his bachelor's degree in architecture from Clemson University, and his MLA from the University of Pennsylvania. He spent two years with the National Park Service, but returned to Clemson in 1961 to teach in the School of Architecture until 1972.

In 1972, he established Edward Pinckney/Associates Ltd.. The firm is in Bluffton, S.C., just west of Hilton Head Island. His firm provides landscape architecture and land planning services throughout the Southeast and has done major projects in five foreign countries. He was name a Fellow of the ASLA Council of Fellows in 1984.