GARRET Eckbo (1910-2000)
GARRET Eckbo was one of the most respected and influential landscape architects and a pioneer of Modern Movement American Landscape. He worked tirelessly to cease the Beaux-Arts system landscape design, to make way for an approach that addressed the social challenges and economic the modern world. It was a creative deliberately experimental, his designs are focused on the garden, as he believed, was the prototype of the entire landscape design. His finished work was influenced by European modern architecture, modern art and vernacular traditions of the American landscape. In the gardens of Garret Eckbo we recognize the strong influence of the avant-garde, with references confessed to a long list of artists: Picasso, Braque, Malevich, Arp, and others. Was also inspired by the architecture of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius . In the 1960, Eckbo work would acquire new positions in the context of social activism and were interested in the integration of landscape design and architecture. Also important are his explorations of the creative uses of technology and science.
The Planar Framework of the Garden. From The Art of Home Landscaping (1956).
Garrett Eckbo was born in Cooperstown, New York, in 1910, but grew up in California. His father was Norwegian. He studied landscape architecture in the University of California Berkeley , graduating in 1935. It then headed south to work in the Armstrong Nurseries in Ontario , California, completing nearly a hundred landscape design before undertaking graduate studies at Harvard University . While attending his studies at Harvard befriended Dan Kiley and James Rose . All three were disappointed with the curriculum based on the movement Fine Arts . They were influenced by Walter Gropius , admired the work of Fletcher Steele and read to Christopher Tunnard . He and his classmates Dan Kiley and James Rose created the "Harvard Revolution" achieving enter modern movement in landscape design.
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In 1938 Eckbo returned to California and worked for Thomas Church . Most of the innovations in modern American landscape architecture were implemented in private gardens, we can see in the extensive production of Church - and then at the corporate level. Eckbo also managed the implementation of its proposals to the public, basing his theory and design research in search of a better living environment , based his design premises to achieve a standard than optimal , instead of minimum . His lifelong commitment was to improve the social through the landscape. He is recognized as a man whose aesthetic principles applied to design the development in all areas, whether private gardens, cooperative space, or housing for farm workers. Eckbo developed a sophisticated system design and implementation, even with limited budget, with strict time constraints, or unfavorable sites.
Eckbo worked as a landscape architect Norman Bel Geddes to in the General Motors pavilion for the World Fair in New York in 1939 and the Farm Security Administration .
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was a prolific author who published seven books and countless articles. In 1949 he wrote his book "Lanscape for living" where does one of the best introductions to a new thought of the modern landscape and showed a new approach to modern California garden . Eckbo moderated their formal expressions with a social vision , linking to an understanding of the natural landscape , always with the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking use human use. In rejecting the traditional concept of a garden as a site for pleasure or that were purely for plantations, and believed and passed the continuing debate between formal and informal conception of landscape. understood as garden space of interaction between people and place . To Eckbo, water was an essential element in the landscape, with rocks and earth. The pool became the focus clearly on the natural life of indoor / outdoor, especially in arid areas such as Palm Springs and Southern California . In the following years, published The Landscape We See (The landscape we see), The Art of Home Landscaping (The Art of Landscape Design Residential) and Urban Landscape Design (Design Urban Landscape), each of these works were documented records of their achievements and the theory derived of their daily practice and personal experience.
In the book "THE ART OF HOME LANDSCAPING" written in 1956, is about how to structure and build a landscape design with an open floor both useful and beautiful place to live. This is valuable because it portrays the vision and approach one of the great architects of the modern landscape.
During the postwar years, the practice continued to grow in size with the completion of projects around the country and abroad. During these years was associated with other key professionals such as Robert Royston and Edward Williams. Landscapers Eckbo, Dean, Austin and Williams founded in 1964 company EDAW, that would become one of the offices of the world's foremost landscape. Eckbo retired from the company in 1973 and left his participation in planning projects, instead designing landscape architecture projects continued to grow. He was recognized by the landscape planning of many modern California gardens, schools, parks, college campuses and gardens of several shopping centers. In 1963 Eckbo returned to Berkeley to accept the chairmanship of the Department of Landscape Architecture and taught at the University of California South and the Department of Landscape Architecture UC Berkeley, serving as professor from 1965-1969.
From then until his death did not stop writing and carry out design projects. In 1975 received the Medal of Honor "American Society of Landscape Architects." Jellicoe Eckbo described as "a pioneer in modern landscape design, not only in relation to modern art, but his concept that gardens are for people, and for each individual in particular ".
Some sources consulted:
http://www.lalh.org/books/eckbo.html
http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives / profiles / eckbo.htm
http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/america/garret_eckbo
Some sources consulted:
http://www.lalh.org/books/eckbo.html
http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives / profiles / eckbo.htm
http://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/garden_landscape_design_articles/america/garret_eckbo
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