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unusual facts about Landscape design


Landscape design

Traditionally, hand drawn drawings documented the design and position of features for construction, while Landscape design software is frequently used now.


Chateau-Neuf de Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The French garden, spread out by the Seine on five terraces, was designed by landscape designer Étienne Dupérac and by gardener Claude Mollet.

Laurelhurst Park

Emanuel Mische, Portland's park superintendent from 1908 to 1914, designed the park in 1912 with experience he acquired as a longtime horticultural "expert" for the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm.


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Capitol Lake

A more limited lake was also part of the original landscape design by John Olmsted to reflect the Washington State Capitol building on Puget Sound.

Carl Theodor Sørensen

A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.

Michael Weishan

Weishan's research in landscape design overlaps with a life-long love of architecture, architectural design and archaeology, and his first published work (1991) was as editor and co-contributor (along with noted Harvard archaeologist George M.A. Hanfmann) of The Byzantine Shops at Sardis, volume 9 of the Sardis Archaeological Series published by the Harvard University Press.

Norfleet Giddings Bone

Upon leaving the Army for a second time in 1932, Bone continued to work in the fields of landscape design and civil engineering for the National Park Service (NPS), the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Texas State Parks Board (now the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department).

Oakland Museum of California

The museum building, designed by architect Kevin Roche, with landscape design by Dan Kiley and gardens by Geraldine Knight Scott, is an important example of mid-century modernism and the integration of indoor and outdoor spaces.

Udo Weilacher

1995 Schinkel-Award in Germany for outstanding landscape design project

Uvedale Price

Price republished the Essay several times, with additional material, and entered into a public debate with Humphry Repton over the latter's approach to landscape design.