Modern Landscape Architecture : A Critical Review

by Treib, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780262700511
• ISBN10: 0262700514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-07-25
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture, and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. Modern Landscape Architecturebrings together seminal articles from the 1930s and 1940s by Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, James Rose, Fletcher Steele, and Christopher Tunnard, while contemporary writers and designers such as Pierce Lewis, Catherine Howett, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz examine the historical and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked.

Author Biography

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Introduction	viii
American Landscape Tastes	2	(16)
Peirce Lewis
Modernism and American Landscape Architecture	18	(18)
Catherine Howett
Axioms for a Modern Landscape Architecture	36	(32)
Marc Treib
Freedom in the Garden (1938)	68	(4)
James C. Rose
Plants Dictate Garden Forms [1938]	72	(1)
James C. Rose
Articulate Form in Landscape Design [1939]	73	(3)
James C. Rose
Why Not Try Science? [1939]	76	(2)
James C. Rose
Landscape Design in the Urban Environment [1939]	78	(5)
Garrett Eckbo
Daniel U. Kiley
James C. Rose
Landscape Design in the Rural Environment [1939]	83	(5)
Garrett Eckbo
Daniel U. Kiley
James C. Rose
Landscape Design in the Primeval Environment [1940]	88	(4)
Garrett Eckbo
Daniel U. Kiley
James C. Rose
A Model for Modernism: The Work and Influence of Pierre-Emile Legrain	92	(16)
Dorothee Imbert
New Pioneering in Garden Design [1930]	108	(6)
Fletcher Steele
Erik Glemme and the Stockholm Park System	114	(20)
Thorbjorn Andersson
The Dialogue of Modern Landscape Architecture with its Past	134	(10)
John Dixon Hunt
Christopher Tunnard: The Garden in the Modern Landscape	144	(15)
Lance M. Neckar
Modern Gardens for Modern Houses: Reflections on Current Trends in Landscape Design [1942]	159	(7)
Christopher Tunnard
Thomas Church, California Gardens, and Public Landscapes	166	(14)
Michael Laurie
``Organic Form in the Humanized Landscape'': Garrett Eckbo's Landscape for Living	180	(26)
Reuben M. Rainey
Pilgrim's Progress	206	(14)
Garrett Eckbo
Modern and Classical Themes in the Work of Dan Kiley	220	(30)
Gregg Bleam
Selected Works and Comments	240	(10)
Dan Kiley
The Practice of Landscape Architecture in the Postwar United States	250	(10)
Peter Walker
Landscape and Common Culture Since Modernism	260	(6)
Martha Schwartz
Pointing a Finger at the Moon: The Work of Robert Irwin	266	(20)
Marc Treib
Epilogue	286	(4)
Index	290