Garrett Eckbo

Garrett Eckbo ( born November 28, 1910 in Cooperstown, New York, † 14 May 2000 ) was an American landscape architect Norwegian descent. Together with Dan Kiley and Thomas Church, he is one of the triggers of the " Harvard Revolution", which introduced the classic modernist style of Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in the American garden design. He is known especially for his asymmetrical designs that were dominated by diagonals.

" Eckbo Has deterministic mined the direction of modern landscape architecture practice. ".

Eckbo studied design at Harvard University and attended the seminars of Walter Gropius, Professor at the Graduate School of Design. This influenced him decisively.

Works

  • Landscape for Living (1950 )
  • Art of Home Landscaping (1956 )
  • Urban Landscape Design (1964 )
  • The Landscape we see (1969 )

Swell

  • Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor in 1996. Transformed Paradise. The private Garden for the 21st Century. New York, Monacelli Press.
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