Main entry:

Rainey, Reuben M., author.

Title & Author:

Robert Royston / Reuben M. Rainey and JC Miller.

Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press ; Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History, [2020]

Description:

xiv, 274 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm

Series:

Masters of modern landscape design

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / by Robin Karson -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Ladera -- Royston and Stein Gardens -- Standard Oil Rod & Gun Club Park -- Second Appert Garden -- Chinn Garden -- Krusi Park Playground -- Mitchell Park -- St. Mary's Square -- Central Park -- Stanford Linear Accelerator Campus -- Santa Clara Civic Center Park -- Estates Reservoir -- Sunriver -- San Joaquin Delta College -- Riverside National Cemetery -- Harris Garden -- Chronology of the Royston Firm -- Notes -- Index.

Summary:

"As an undergraduate at Berkeley in 1937, Robert Royston began his career employed in Thomas Church's firm, acting as supervisor on projects throughout the San Francisco area, including the Parkmerced Apartments. After serving in the navy, Royston joined Garrett Eckbo and Edward Williams in establishing the firm of Eckbo, Royston and Williams. This partnership foreshadowed the development of larger planning and design firms in the 1960s, including the one Royston joined in 1958 - Royston, Hanamoto, Alley and Abey (RHAA). Beginning in the 1950s, Royston produced a series of "public gardens," including Bixby and Mitchell Parks in Palo Alto (1956) and Central Park in Santa Clara (1960), embodying his social and spatial theories and featuring his trademark biomorphic forms. Royston, who taught at Berkeley from 1947 to 1951 and at Stanford in the 1950s, was a mentor to many landscape designers, including Eldon Beck, Francis Dean, and Robert Reich."-- Provided by publisher.
"Over nearly six decades of practice, Robert Royston (1918-2008) shaped the postwar Bay Area landscape with visionary designs for public spaces. Early in his career, Royston conceived of the "landscape matrix," a system of interconnected parks, plazas, and parkways that he hoped could bring order and amenity to rapidly developing suburbs. The idea would inform his work on more than two thousand projects as diverse as school grounds, new towns, transit corridors, and housing tracts. As an apprentice of Thomas Church, Royston gained experience with residential gardens that influenced his early designs for public parks. At a time when neighborhood parks were typically limited to playing fields and stock playground equipment, Royston created imaginative facilities for the American family, offering activities for people of all ages. Royston, Hanamoto & Mayes, founded in 1958, grew to become one of the nation's most influential corporate firms. With his collaborative approach, Royston designed landscapes that set a high standard of inclusivity and environmental awareness. In addition to the many beloved places he created, his perceptive humanism, which passed down to his students, is Royston's enduring legacy."--taken from front cover flap.

ISBN:

9780820357317 paperback
0820357316 paperback

Subject:

Royston, Robert, 1918-2008.
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Landscape architects.
California Biography.
Californie Biographies.
California.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Miller, J. C. (Landscape architect), author.
Masters of modern landscape design.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308236
Call No.: BIB 253670
Status: Available