Dan Kiley
Dan Kiley (actually Daniel Urban Kiley, born September 2, 1912 in Boston, † 21 February 2004 in Montpelier ) was an American landscape architect and one of the founders of the " Harvard Revolution".
Biography
Dan Kiley began in 1932 a four-year apprenticeship with landscape architect Warren Henry Manning ( 1860-1938 ). Then he studied Design at Harvard University. He attended several seminars by Walter Gropius, as this professor at the Graduate School of Design was. Among his fellow students were Garrett Eckbo and James Rose, who later became the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century. Two years later, Kiley broke off his studies. He worked briefly for the National Park Service in Concord, New Hampshire, and later in the United States Housing Authority under the architect Louis Isidore Kahn ( 1901-1974 ).
In 1942 he married Anne Lathrop Sturges and opened an office in Franconia, New Hampshire. 1943-1945 served Kiley in the United States Army and belonged to the United Nations War Crimes Commission, which had been founded for the Nuremberg trials. In France he visited the gardens of André Le Nôtre in Chantilly, Versailles and Vaux- le -Vicomte - whose geometric layout flowed in his later work a ( Classic Modern Style ). Louis Kahn brought Kiley, together with the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen, with whom he the Miller house designed in the 1950s in Columbus.
Landscape Architecture
Kiley was heavily influenced by the style of Mies van der Rohe, in particular its Barcelona Pavilion of 1929. He combined the style of van der Rohe with the classic style of André le Nôtre, his designs are characterized by a strict grid lines. Strictly trimmed hedges and avenues dominate the design. However, he also tried to incorporate the garden into the surrounding landscape
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder
Jardine Water Purification Plant