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 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. 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,