Modern Significant People Flashcards
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
DANIEL BURNHAM
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
City Beautiful Movement by DANIEL BURNHAM
famous for his signature natural looking, soft undulating earth forms & native vegetation
ARTHUR EDWIN BYE
The Roland Reisley House of Frank Lloyd Wright in New York, 1951
ARTHUR EDWIN BYE
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.
ARTHUR EDWIN BYE
Jefferson Memorial Park, Washington
Pocket Park @ 77 Water Street, Manhattan
ARTHUR EDWIN BYE
“Everything about Bye meandered” Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot prof of Landscape Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design
ARTHUR EDWIN BYE
Creator of Modern Garden Style or outdoor room;
drew on Cubism abstract and eclectic designs based on French Baroque.
THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH
El Novillero - Dewey Donnell Ranch Garden, Sonoma California (together with L. Halprin)
THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH
is considered one of the masterpieces of modern landscape design, and one of the first examples of the now-ubiquitous kidney shaped pool.
El Novillero, The Donnell Ranch Garden in Sonoma, CA by THOMAS DOLLIVER CHURCH
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.
GARRETT ECKBO
shopping center in Brooklyn, NY featuring hundreds of small businesses and national brands, making it a major retail destination
Fulton Mall by GARRETT ECKBO
The largest water park of its kind in the world, located in San Diego, California
Mission Bay Park by GARRETT ECKBO
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)
LE CORBUSIER
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
Villa Savoye by LE CORBUSIER
Sav-wa
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.
Palais des Nations. The Palace of Nations by LE CORBUSIER
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
LAWRENCE HALPRIN
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.
Lovejoy Plaza, Portland, US
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.
Ira Keller Foundation, Portland, US
Ira Keller Forecourt Fountain
by LAWRENCE HALPRIN
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)
EBENEZER HOWARD
love for cottage garden and Edwardian England;
tidy formalism of the vernacular and popular gardens of Austrian Tyrol and Swiss Alps
GERTRUDE JECKYLL
use of midwestern native plants
JENS JENSEN
located near Taunton, Somerset is a unique collection of three historic gardens spanning three centuries of garden design.
Hestercombe House & Gardens by GERTRUDE JECKYLL
modern and site-specific design approach;
work labeled “classical: reminiscent of 17th century
“Landscape should be an obvious contrast to the world of Nature”
DANIEL URBAN KILEY
