Peter Walker (landscape architect)

Peter Walker ( born 1932 ) is an American landscape architect, his office is located in Berkeley near San Francisco.

Landscape Architecture

The Walker was born in 1932 and grew up in California and began in 1955 at the University of California at Berkeley, the study of landscape architecture. After graduating from there with a bachelor, he continued his studies at the University of Illinois and Harvard University, where he graduated with a Master in 1957.

During his studies he worked at Lawrence Halprin, in his former professor Hideo Sasaki office, he got his first job. Walker was founded in 1972 by business partners Sasaki, the office was renamed " Sasaki, Walker Associates, Inc". In 1983 he founded his own company, which has its headquarters in Berkeley.

Peter Walker was known primarily for urban plazas and parks. His " generous landscapes" were inspired by Donald Judd and Robert Irwin, he had raised in the U.S., " almost single-handedly landscape architecture at a high artistic level." Large-scale patterns that are drawn with different types of surface are often found in his designs. The use of reduced forms makes it appear as a minimalist. His artificial-looking, often regularly arranged design elements reminded the other hand, to the park of the French Baroque.

Teaching

Already since 1976, Walker was a lecturer at Harvard University, more lectureships and visiting professorships at numerous other universities followed.

Publications

In addition to numerous journal articles that deal with the work of Peter Walker, he has also written with - some books:

  • Peter Walker and Cathy Deino Blake: Minimalist Gardens Without Walls. Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1990.
  • Peter Walker and Leah Levy: Peter Walker: Minimalist Gardens. Washington, D.C., Spacemaker Press, 1997.
  • Peter Walker and Jane Brown Gillette: Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture: Defining the Craft. San Francisco, Oro Editions, 2005.

In 1996 he founded the publishing Spacemaker Press, which publishes the Journal of Agricultural Forum and books on landscape architecture.

Projects

Although Peter Walker designed courses for 50 years, he has become known to a wide audience with their design for the design of the World Trade Center Memorial. A selection of other projects, with focus on Europe:

  • Administrative headquarters of Bayer AG, Leverkusen
  • Office building for the German Post AG in Bonn, architects Murphy / Jahn, Built in 2002
  • Münchner Tor, office building at the Mies -van -der- Rohe-Straße in Munich, architects Murphy / Jahn, built in 2004
  • Munich International Airport, Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich, 1994
  • One North Wacker Drive, exterior of an office building in Chicago

Documents

  • Biography on the company's website
  • Eulogy for the ASLA Medal ( PDF; 104 kB)
  • Landscape Architect (United States)
  • Born in 1932
  • Americans
  • Man
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