Modern Landscape Architecture ─ A Critical Review

These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets,accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas aboutpossible directions for the future of the discipline.During the 1930s Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, andJamesRose began to integrate modernist architectural ideas into their work and to design a landscapemore in accord with the life and sensibilities of their time. Together with Thomas Church, whosegardens provided the setting for California living, they laid the foundations for a modern Americanlandscape design.This first critical assessment of modem landscape architecture brings togetherseminal articles from the 1930s and 1940s by Eckbo, Kiley, Rose, Fletcher Steele, and ChristopherTunnard, and includes contributions by contemporary writers and designers such as Peirce Lewis,Catherine Howett, John Dixon Hunt, Peter Walker, and Martha Schwartz who examine the historical andcultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked.There are also essays byLance Neckar, Reuben Rainey, Gregg Bleam, Michael Laurie, and Marc Treib that discuss the designsand legacy of the Americans Tunnard, Eckbo, Church, Kiley, and Robert Irwin. Dorothee Imbert takesup Pierre-Emile Legrain and French modernist gardens of the 1920s, and Thorbjorn Andersson reviewsexperiments with stylized naturalism developed by Erik Glemme and others in the Stockholm parksystem.Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Marc Treib is Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.