Main entry:

Treib, Marc.

Title & Author:

The Donnell and Eckbo gardens : modern Californian masterworks / Marc Treib.

Publication:

San Francisco : William Stout Publishers, ©2005.

Description:

xv, 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Berkeley/Design/Books ; 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index.
The Donnell Garden: A modern stage for outdoor living -- Thomas Church: formation -- Early practice -- Postwar gardens -- The clients and the commission -- Design and realization -- Response -- Some years later -- The garden today -- Notes -- The Eckbo Alcoa Forecast Garden: a landscape of aluminum -- A Pilgrim's Progress -- Wonderland Park -- The Eckbo house and early garden -- Aluminum and the Forecast program -- The Alcoa Forecast project -- Designing an aluminum garden -- Publicizing the aluminum garden -- Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Thomas Church collection -- The Garret Eckbo collection.

Summary:

For the first time, a detailed look at two California gardens that were pivotal in defining mid-20th-century landscape design in the United States: Thomas Church's 1948 Donnell garden in Sonoma, California, and Garrett Eckbo's 1959 ALCOA Forecast garden in Los Angeles. Church's brilliant integration of indoor-outdoor living and Eckbo's imaginative use of new materials like aluminum left nostalgia behind and created America's new backyard. From the Environmental Design Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0974621412
9780974621418

Subject:

Church, Thomas Dolliver.
Eckbo, Garrett.
Gardens California History.
Gardens California Design.
Landscape gardening California.
Landscape architects California Biography.
Landscape design California.
Jardins Californie Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Californie.
Architectes paysagistes Californie Biographies.
Aménagement paysager Californie.
Gardens.
Gardens Design.
Landscape architects.
Landscape design.
Landscape gardening.
California.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
History.

Added entries:

Church, Thomas Dolliver.
Eckbo, Garrett.
Berkeley/design/books ; no. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241751
Call No.: BIB 171598
Status: Available