Title & Author:

Shaping the American landscape : new profiles from the pioneers of American landscape design project / edited by Charles A. Birnbaum and Stephanie S. Foell.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Description:

xvi, 446 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"A project of the Cultural Landscape Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Pioneers -- Charles Gibbs Adams -- Thomas Affleck -- Franz Aust -- Garnet Douglass Baltimore -- Katherine Emilie Bashford -- Herbert Bayer -- Douglas Baylis -- Tom Bendelow -- Harold Hill Blossom -- Alfred L. Boerner -- John Bogart -- John Rowlett Brinley -- John A. Brooks -- Helen Elise Bullard -- Frank Morse Button -- Arthur Edwin Bye Jr. -- Francis Calvert -- Harold ap Rhys Caparn -- Elizabeth (Liz) Christy -- Helen Hawkins Clarke -- Grady Clay Jr. -- Lester Albertson Collins -- Lois Page Cottrell -- Paul Philippe Cret -- Colonel John Yapp Culyer -- Joseph Henry Curtis -- Hilbert Einar Dahl -- Elizabeth Kellam de Forest -- Julian Francis Detmer -- Julia Lester Dillon -- Caroline Coroneos Dormon -- David Bates Douglass -- Alice Morse Earle -- Garrett Eckbo -- William Constantine Egan -- Charles W. Eliot II -- Heinrich Adolph Engelhardt -- David Fairchild -- Annette Hoyt Flanders -- Dr. Francesco Franceschi (Emanuele Orazio Fenzi) -- M. Paul Friedberg -- Ethelbert Ely Furlong -- Fairman Furness -- Jacques-Henri-Auguste Gréber -- John W. Gregg -- Ralph Ellis Gunn -- Richard Haag -- Alfred V. Hall -- Lawrence Halprin -- A.E. Hanson -- William Edward Harries -- Harries, Hall & Kruse -- Ruth Mildred Havey -- Werner Hegemann -- William Hertrich -- Clarence Edmund "Bud" Hollied -- Walter Charles Holzbog -- Almerin Hotchkiss -- Benjamin Cregan Howland Jr. -- Louise Stone Hubbard -- Alice Recknagel Ireys -- Carol R. Johnson -- Marshall Liston Johnson -- Helen Swift Jones -- Herbert J. Kellaway -- William Harry Kessler -- Daniel Urban Kiley -- Theodora Kimball Hubbard -- Kate Ries (Catherine E.) Koch -- Arthur M. Kruse -- Gertrude Deimel Kuh -- Mary Deputy Lamson -- Elizabeth Lawrence -- Edward Godfrey Lawson -- Clermont "Monty" Huger Lee -- Guy Hunter Lee -- Franz Lipp -- Alice Gardner Burnell Lockwood -- Ruth London -- Charles Blair Macdonald -- Robert E. Marvin -- Ian L. McHarg -- John McLaren -- Emanuel Tillman Mische -- Seward Hamilton Mott -- Hallam Leonard Movius -- Kinsaku Nakane -- Sir Francis Nicholson -- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander -- James Edward Oglethorpe -- Theodore Osmundson -- Hubert Bond Owens -- Milton Meade Palmer -- John L. Paolano -- Willie Park Jr. -- Carl Rust Parker -- Elizabeth Greenleaf Pattee -- Courtland Price Paul -- Rubee Jeffrey Pearse -- Isabella E. Pendleton -- Michiel Walter Pesman -- William Lyman Phillips -- Ignatz Anton Pilat -- William Chase Pitkin Jr. -- Pitkin & Mott -- Julius Pitzman -- Cecil Pragnell -- Thomas Drees Price -- Elsa Rehmann -- Robert S. Reich -- Theodate Pope Riddle -- Jane Silverstein Ries -- Florence Bell Robinson -- Eleanor Louise Roche -- Ralph Rodney Root -- Robert Royston -- Hideo Sasaki -- Richard Schermerhorn Jr. -- Niles Bierragaard Schubarth -- Geraldine Knight Scott -- Frances Copley Seavey -- Henry Shaw -- Ruth Patricia Shellhorn -- Harry Whitcomb Shepherd -- Lawrence Vinnedge Sheridan -- John Ormsbee Simonds -- Alice Orme Smith -- Ralph T. Stevens -- Wayne E. Stiles -- Elizabeth Leonard Strang -- Butler Stevens Sturtevant -- Diego Suarez -- Paul G. Thiene -- Armand Rhodes Tibbitts -- Albert Warren Tillinghast -- Rudolph Ulrich -- Hollyngsworth Leland Vaughan and Adele Wharton Vaughan -- James Vick -- Richard K. Webel -- James Roy West -- Myron Howard West -- Perry Hunt Wheeler -- William Hollingsworth Whyte Jr. -- William S. Wiedorn -- David Augustus Williston -- Conrad Louis Wirth -- Theodore Wirth -- Helen Page Wodell Wodell and Cottrell -- Leon Henry Zach -- Robert Lewis Zion -- Sites accessible to the public.

Summary:

"Shaping the American Landscape explores the lives and work of 149 professionals who quite literally shaped both the land itself and our ideas of what the American landscape means. Although the contributors consider many important figures from the past, the book breaks new ground by including seminal designers who are in their twilight years, and in some cases still professionally active, to provide a fascinating look at the modern era of design in action. The roster of profiles extends far beyond landscape architects to encompass professionals in many other fields, including planning, journalism, gardening, and golf course and cemetery design." "The authors seek not only to bring their subjects' design legacies to light, but also to instill a sense of stewardship for historically meaningful examples of their art. Across North America, key works in landscape design - from M. Paul Friedberg's Riis Plaza Park in New York to Dan Kiley's Nationsbank Plaza in Tampa - have already disappeared. Other iconic works, although still extant, face serious threats of demolition. Shaping the American Landscape identifies a host of public spaces deserving of recognition, and sheds light on the process by which they may be protected." "Organized in an accessible, encyclopedic format, Shaping the American Landscape is an indispensable reference work that may also be read simply for the pleasure of discovery. Many readers will want to go beyond the page and personally experience some of the landscapes described here. A generous selection of illustrations, together with a list of surviving landscape sites accessible to the public, brings both the subjects and their art to life."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780813927893 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0813927897 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape architects United States Biography.
Horticulturists United States Biography.
Planners United States Biography.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Horticulteurs États-Unis Biographies.
Planificateurs États-Unis Biographies.
Horticulturists
Landscape architects
Planners
Gartenarchitekt
Landschaftsarchitekt
Landschaftsplanung
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Verzeichnis.
Biographies

Added entries:

Birnbaum, Charles A.
Foell, Stephanie S. (Stephanie Sue), 1970-
Cultural Landscape Foundation.

New profiles from the pioneers of American landscape design project

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 266316
Call No.: SB469.9 .S5 2009
Status: Available