Landscape Development in the Twentieth Century (Part One)

I.    Jens Jensen 1860-1951 (Is he only a plantsman?)

 His Background Professional associations West Parks of Chicago

Humboldt and Columbus Parks

The Cook County Preserves Residential Development

Henry Babson Residence, Riverside, Illinois

E.L. Ryeson Residence, Lake Forest Illinois

H.C. Brooks Estate, Marshall, Michigan

Conflict with the profession The Clearing at Ellison Bay, Wisconsin

His own school of landscape architecture (native species approach)

II.    Ossian Cole Simonds (major works in Michigan and Midwest)

Graceland Cemetery in Chicago

III.    Karl Foerster, Munich, Germany

Native species approach

IV.    Fletcher Steele 1885

He wrote Landscape Design of the Future in 1932 and Modern Garden Design in 1936

Naumeag, Granite Pool

V.    Diego Suarez, Vizcaya, Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida

James Deering (Italian Renaissance Influence)

VI.    A.E. Bye

Leitzsch Garden and Gainesway Farms in Kentucky

VII.    Thomas Church and the California School (1902-1978)

His philosophy and influence in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's

The design of a new residential landscape (affordable)

  His works:

• Butler Garden, Pasatiempo, CA 1935

• Volkmann Garden, San Francisco, CA 1938
• Baldwin Garden, Woodside, CA 1938-40
• Sullivan Garden, Sarataga, CA 1939
• Douglass Garden, San Francisco, CA 1941
• George L. Evans Garden, San Francisco, CA 1946
• Bradford Garden, San Jose, CA 1946
• Donnell Residence and Garden in Sonoma, CA 1948

• Other Projects