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Flatiron Building and skyscrapers;

city planning for Chicago, Manila to Baguio, Phils.

*In Washington DC, creation of McMillan Plan (named after Senator McMillan) the 1st governmental plan to regulate aesthetics; this plan revived Pierre L’Enfant’s original city design plans

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DANIEL BURNHAM

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inspired by the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

  • ideal city, aesthetically pleasing (no longer a symbol of economic development & industrialization)
  • clasically designed monumental buildings
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City Beautiful Movement by DANIEL BURNHAM

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famous for his signature natural looking, soft undulating earth forms & native vegetation

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ARTHUR EDWIN BYE

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The Roland Reisley House of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, 1951

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ARTHUR EDWIN BYE

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ecological approach to design (same w/ Takano’s) often incorporating natural processes & environmental remediation strategies into their designs.

subtle designs consciously enhanced the natural form of the landscape thru addition or subtraction of existing natural features & the physical molding of the earth.

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ARTHUR EDWIN BYE

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Jefferson Memorial Park, Washington

Pocket Park @ 77 Water Street, Manhattan

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ARTHUR EDWIN BYE

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“Everything about Bye meandered” Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot prof of Landscape Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design

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ARTHUR EDWIN BYE

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Creator of Modern Garden Style or outdoor room;

drew on Cubism abstract and eclectic designs based on French Baroque.

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THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH

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El Novillero - Dewey Donnell Ranch Garden, Sonoma California (together with L. Halprin)

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THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH

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is considered one of the masterpieces of modern landscape design, and one of the first examples of the now-ubiquitous kidney shaped pool.

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El Novillero, The Donnell Ranch Garden in Sonoma, CA by THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH

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led Harvard revolution with Dan Kiley and James Rose;

usher modern period in landscape design in opposition to the traditional axial symmetry of Beaux-Arts approach. Influenced by Bahaus and Cubism.

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GARRETT ECKBO

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shopping center in Brooklyn, NY featuring hundreds of small businesses and national brands, making it a major retail destination

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Fulton Mall by GARRETT ECKBO

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The largest water park of its kind in the world, located in San Diego, California

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Mission Bay Park by GARRETT ECKBO

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influenced L. Barragan & R. Burle Marx;

Swiss modernist architect, painter, urban planner, and writer

“The quest for harmony seems the noblest of human passions…”

Design was cubist, trim, clean, and of modern materials (steel concrete glass block plastics)

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LE CORBUSIER

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a modernist villa in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France; used reinforced concrete; built together with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret

representative of the origins of modern architecture and is one of the most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style.;

originally built as a country retreat for the Savoye family

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Villa Savoye by LE CORBUSIER

Sav-wa

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the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938 to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations.

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Palais des Nations. The Palace of Nations by LE CORBUSIER

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Studied in Harvard and taught there. Residential designs during late 1940s and 50s established California garden style;

use of water and concrete elements as his signature

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LAWRENCE HALPRIN

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one-acre plaza, with stepped terraces of board-formed concrete planes recall the barren High Sierra landscape, Vegetation is kept at the park’s perimeter, while within the plaza active fountains mimic the natural waterfalls and rushing streams of the nearby Cascade Range, culminating in quiet pools that invite visitors not just to look, but also to participate in the water feature itself. Providing a sheltered space is a wooden lattice pavilion designed by San Francisco architects Charles Moore and William Turnbull, Jr.

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Lovejoy Plaza, Portland, US

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A product of urban renewal, this massive land clearing project was realized with $12 million in federal funds targeted for the South Auditorium District. Named after the Civic Auditorium abutting its northern edge, this park in Portland’s “city within a city” was not originally part of the Open-Space Sequence planned,

a park that solved the site’s complex grades with a powerful urban waterfall.

This new type of people’s park, where nature is abstracted with a geometric naturalism, was based on his studies of the High Sierra’s spring cascades. He saw these plaza spaces as theatre sets for choreographing human movement – and unlike being fountains solely for viewing, these were designed for interaction.

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Ira Keller Foundation, Portland, US
Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain
by LAWRENCE HALPRIN

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Book: Garden Cities for Tomorrow of Utopian City;

interest in Urban planning and detested British industrial cities

Radburn New Jersey - Greenbelt, Maryland -

Greenhills Ohio, Woodlands Texas (proposed that such communities be surrounded in perpetuity by open agricultural lands in order to stem the tide of urban sprawl)

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EBENEZER HOWARD

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love for cottage garden and Edwardian England;

tidy formalism of the vernacular and popular gardens of Austrian Tyrol and Swiss Alps

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GERTRUDE JECKYLL

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use of midwestern native plants

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JENS JENSEN

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located near Taunton, Somerset is a unique collection of three historic gardens spanning three centuries of garden design.

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Hestercombe House & Gardens by GERTRUDE JECKYLL

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modern and site-specific design approach;

work labeled “classical: reminiscent of 17th century

“Landscape should be an obvious contrast to the world of Nature”

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DANIEL URBAN KILEY

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US Air Force Academy

Oakland Museum - Artifacts & interactive displays in a modern building focusing on state art, history & science.

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DANIEL URBAN KILEY

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English architect converted to garden design by Gertrude Jeckyll. Part of British Arts and Crafts Movement

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SIR EDWIN LUTYENS

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Munstead Wood is a Grade I listed house and garden in Munstead Heath, Busbridge on the boundary of the town of Godalming in Surrey, England, 1 mile south-east of the town centre. (HOUSE OF GERTRUDE JECKYLL)

designed by this architect, located in Surrey, England

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SIR EDWIN LUTYENS

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Brazilian landscape architect, rid gardens of European features and used Brazilian plants extensively;

liberal use of flora and a sculptural, painterly arrangement of colors free flowing patterns of ground cover water and hard surfaces

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ROBERTO BURLE MARX

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Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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ROBERTO BURLE MARX

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The name was given in reference to the antique Casa Forte Sugar Mill, in this place occurred the Casa Forte Combat, between Pernambuco and Dutch, in 1645. It was the first public garden idealized by the landscaper Roberto Burle Marx in 1934.
The landscaper designed the leisure area with three gardens, using species of Brazilian and the Amazon region flora, in addition to exotic plants.

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CASA FORTE SQUARE by ROBERTO BURLE MARX

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overlay analysis technique incorporating geographic climatic vegetative and land use studies of a given landscape area.

promoted ecological planning and helped to make ecology a household word

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IAN MCHARG

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well known as a new town development (29,000 acres) that followed his ecological planning approach.

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The Woodlands, Texas by IAN MCHARG

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Father of Landscape Architecture;
an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator, famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux

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FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED Sr.

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Central Park, Manhattan, NY

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FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED Sr.

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Work characterized as Victoria Naturalism; opposed Gardenesque style; emphasis on display of plants as specimen for form rather than color; focus on civil buildings and urban planning.

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WILLIAM ROBINSON

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is a public park situated in northeastern Paris, France, in the 19th arrondissement (borough/municipale). Occupying 24.7 hectares, it is the fifth-largest park and original green spaces in Paris; Its construction on quarries explains its impressive steepness and change in levels and heights.

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Parc des Buttes Chaumont by WILLIAM ROBINSON

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planner of ecological new towns using “Preservation Conservation Development”

“You aren’t conscious of the ego of the creator. You are conscious of the rightness of time and space.”

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JOHN ORMSBEE SIMMONDS

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a 385-acre (156 ha) living plant museum situated on nine islands in the Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens in four natural habitats: McDonald Woods, Dixon Prairie, Skokie River Corridor, and Lakes and Shores.

located in Illinois, US

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Chicago Botanic Garden by JOHN ORMSBEE SIMMONDS

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an urban park in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the first Modernist park built above a parking garage. With its distinctive black, white and green geometric pavement, it is a prominent urban oasis and gathering spot

area: 1-acre (0.40 ha)

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Mellon Square by JOHN ORMSBEE SIMMONDS

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English architect and landscape architect. AJ Downing was his mentor; partners with FLO Sr., persuaded FLO Sr. to join Central Park Competition with “Greensward Plan”

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CALVERT VAUX

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is an urban park in Brooklyn, New York City.

With an area of 526 acres (213 ha), it is the second largest public park in Brooklyn, behind Marine Park.

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Prospect Park by CALVERT VAUX (together with FLO Sr.)

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