Thomas Dolliver Church

Thomas Dolliver Church ( * April 27, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts, † August 30, 1978 ) was an American landscape architect. He was called by his family, " Dolliver " by his friends and "Tommy".

Life

Church grew up in California in Ojai and Berkeley. He made 1923 his Bachelor of Arts from the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley. His master made ​​Church at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Here he was heavily influenced by Walter Gropius. Between 1929 and 1930, Church taught at UC Berkeley. In 1932 he moved to San Francisco and opened his office in the 402 Jackson Street in 1933. According to a European tour in 1937, during which he visited France and Finland, he taught for a year at Ohio State University. He held the office until he retired in 1977.

Work

As a Church began his studies, neoclassicism dominated the garden design. Church met at the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, and during a trip to Europe the sense of the classical form. He was strongly influenced by the work of Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto. But Cubist and Art Deco elements can be found in his work. Church was one of the inventors of the modern American landscape architecture, which became known as California Style. This was dominated by paving, wooden terraces, bridges and raised beds and watched the often irregular shape of the land to. The gardens were designed " easy-care ". In his book Gardens are for Peoples he described the four principles of his designs:

  • Unit
  • Function
  • Simplicity
  • Scale

Works

  • El Novillero Somona, San Pablo Bay in San Francisco in 1947, owner Dewey Donnel.

Publications

  • Gardens are for People, how to plan for outdoor living. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1955 ( new editions 1983, 1995)
  • Your private world; a study of intimate gardens. San Francisco Chronicle Books 1969.

Swell

  • Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor in 1996. Transformed Paradise. The private Garden for the 21st Century. New York, Monacelli Press, 11
  • George Plumptree 1994 Great gardens, great designers. London, Seven dials, 67-69 < / ref >.
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