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Twenty-two essays that provide a forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline

These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. During the 1930s Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and JamesRose began to integrate modernist architectural ideas into their work and to design a landscape more in accord with the life and sensibilities of their time. Together with Thomas Church, whose gardens provided the setting for California living, they laid the foundations for a modern American landscape design. This first critical assessment of modem landscape architecture brings together seminal articles from the 1930s and 1940s by Eckbo, Kiley, Rose, Fletcher Steele, and Christopher Tunnard, 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 and cultural framework within which modern landscape designers have worked.

There are also essays by Lance Neckar, Reuben Rainey, Gregg Bleam, Michael Laurie, and Marc Treib that discuss the designs and legacy of the Americans Tunnard, Eckbo, Church, Kiley, and Robert Irwin. Dorothée Imbert takes up Pierre-Emile Legrain and French modernist gardens of the 1920s, and Thorbjörn Andersson reviews experiments with stylized naturalism developed by Erik Glemme and others in the Stockholm park system.

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Landscape architecture was not included in the curriculum of the Bauhaus, a telling indication of its distance from the mainstream of modernist movements in 20th-century culture. The absence of a rigorous debate over the meaning of modernism, and indeed of landscape architecture's engagement with its history, has been disastrous for the profession, as J.D. Hunt argues in the most critical essay in this volume. Based on presentations at the 1989 conference "Modern Landscape Architecture [Re]Evaluated," this volume concentrates on the work of Garrett Eckbo, Thomas Church, Dan Kiley, and James Rose, with additional material on Fletcher Steele and Christopher Tunnard. The 22 essays fall into two groups: historical pieces by geographer P. Lewis and historians C. Howett and Hunt, as well as by practitioners Treib, D. Imbert, T. Andersson, L. Nektar, M. Laurie, R. Rainey, G. Bleam, P. Walker, and M. Schwartz; and articles written by Rose, Eckbo, Kiley, Steele, and Tunnard between 1930 and 1942 that defined aspects of the modern movement. These essays are more focused on the practice of landscape architecture than the Museum of Modern Art Symposium, Denatured Visions: Landscape and Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. by Stuart Wrede and William H. Adams (CH, Sep'92), but text and illustrations alike make it understandable why Ian McHarg's Design With Nature (CH, Nov'69) became the bible of a rising generation tired of the false promises of modernism. Advanced undergraduate and above. D. Schuyler; Franklin and Marshall College

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