Pioneers Profiles
Pioneers Profiles contain a variety of resources: interview videos and transcripts, biographies, personal essays, images, and news articles.
Fred Barlow
See: Baldwin Hills (Landslide 2006)
Herbert Bayer (1900-1985)
Bauhaus-trained environmental artist and designer, Herbert Bayer, spent nearly four decades working to integrate art and ecology. Bayer’s work culminated in his design Earthworks at Mill Creek Canyon in Kent, Washington. Read Bio...
Tom Bendelow (1868-1936)
In a career that spanned little more than thirty-five years, Tom Bendelow is credited with laying out well over six hundred golf courses across the United States and Canada. Read Bio...
Harold ap Rhys Caparn (1864-1945)
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Ralph Cornell (1890-1972)
See: College Campuses (Landslide 2002)
Thomas Church (1902-1978)
See: College Campuses (Landslide 2002); Modern Garden Icons: Donnell Garden ; Parkmerced
Marion Coffin (1876-1957)
See: Gibraltar Gardens; College Campuses (Landslide 2002) ;
Landslide 2002: River Road Estates
Aurthur C. Comey
Saco Rienk DeBoer
See: Brief Bio ; S.R. DeBoer House at Risk!
Lockwood deForest (1896-1949)
See: Valverde (Landslide 2002)
George Ellwanger
See: Pear Trees
Beatrix Farrand
See: Dumbarton Oaks; College Campuses (Landslide 2002)
Bryant Fleming (1877-1946)
See: River Road Estates (Landslide 2002)
Walter Gutherie
See: Sample Oral History Interview
Richard Haag (b. 1923)
See: Short Profile; Sample Oral History Interview
Lawrence Halprin (b. 1916)
Best known internationally for an unrivaled collection of public spaces, Lawrence Halprin also designed nearly 400 private gardens in his early years of practice.
See: Sample Oral History Interview ; Modern Garden Icons: Donnell Garden ; Portland: The Lawrence Halprin Landscapes Conservancy ; ASLA 2007 Meeting / Donnell Gala ; Water Garden ; Freeway Park ; Skyline Park; Three Invisible Modernist Designs (Landslide 2002) ; Preserving the Modern Landscape
Ralph Hancock (1893-1950)
Welsh landscape architect Ralph Hancock left his mark in the United States with a series of roof gardens he designed for Rockefeller Center. Read Bio...
Almerin Hotchkiss (1816-1903)
Principally known as a cemetery designer, Almerin Hotchkiss’s work as a town planner has largely gone unrecognized. One of his most lasting legacies, and one of the country’s first curvilinear street plans, exists today in Lake Forest, Illinois. Read Bio...
Jens Jensen
See also: Columbus Park: A Prairie Idealized ;
Becker Estate (Landslide 2006) ;
Bur Oak Tree - Fair Lane (Landslide 2007)
Carol R. Johnson (b. 1929)
For four decades, Carol R. Johnson’s designs transformed urban open spaces, campuses, industrial sites, and neglected waterfronts into vibrant, people filled spaces. Read Bio...
See also: Oral History Project
Dan Kiley (1912 - 2004)
Dan Kiley is among the most important international landscape architects of the 20th century. For over 60 years and in more than a thousand projects, he has transformed the landscapes of private houses, public institutions and vast urban spaces into magnificent places of natural beauty. Read Bio...
See also: Indiana Landscapes (Landslide 2002) ; Modern Garden Icons: Donnell Garden ;
Dan Kiley Landscape at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Burlington, VT) ; Lincoln Center ;
NationsBank Plaza (Tampa) ; Kiley’s Garden at NationsBank Plaza (Landslide 2006) ; Capitol Park ; Dan Kiley Past and Present
Warren Manning (1860-1938)
See: Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens (Landslide 2002)
Pinehurst, NC ; College Campuses (Landslide 2002)
Henry Nehrling
See: Palm Cottage Garden (Landslide 2006)
James Edward Ogelthorpe
See: The City of Savannah (Landslide 2002)
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903)
See: College Campuses (Landslide 2002) ; US Capitol Grounds (Landslide 2002) ;
Seneca Park (Landslide 2002) ; Elms of the National Mall (Landslide 2007) ;
City Shaping: The Olmsteds & Louisville ; The Olmsted Odyssey
Olmsted Brothers
See: River Road Estates (Landslide 2002) ; Dunn Garden (Landslide 2006)
Carl Rust Parker
See: Banyan Tree Allée - Boca Grande (Landslide 2007)
Jane Silverstein Ries (1909-2005)
For over sixty years, Jane Silverstein Ries worked to create a distinctive landscape style all her own and, in doing so, changed the public and private spaces of Denver. Read Bio...
Robert Royston (b. 1918)
Robert Royston design work and university teaching in the years following World War II helped define and establish California Modernism in the post-war period. Read Bio...
See also: Parkmerced ; Mitchell Park
Hideo Sasaki
See: Christopher Columbus Park (Landslide 2002) ; Bell Laboratories
Ruth Patricia Shellhorn (1909-2006)
Ruth Patricia Shellhorn designed several hundred private gardens and commercial projects during her fifty-seven-year career. She demonstrated a flair for site-planning that went well beyond the ken of the white-gloved lady designer. Read Bio...
See also: Sample Oral History Interview
Ellen Biddle Shipman
See: Longue Vue (Landslide 2006)
Arthur Shurcliff
See: Greatwood Gardens (Landslide 2006)
John Ormsbee Simonds (1913- 2005)
A dedicated environmentalist, John Simonds often wrote about the need for landscape and urban planning to better consider man's physical and spiritual connection to nature. Read Bio...
William Wiedorn
See: New Orleans Botanical Garden (Landslide 2006)