Garrett Eckbo

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Freeform Park, Washington, D.C. Partial site/planting plan. Student project at Harvard University, 1937

A Country Estate on an Island. Competition entry for a Harvard University scholarship, 1936

An Estate in the Manner of Louis XIV. Aerial perspective. Student project at the University of California, Berkeley

Design as a response to change in environment

PHILOSOPHY

Integration of built and open spaces

Landscape as a means of integration between individual and suburban community

Community Homes

Union Bank Plaza

Pools as the point of departure for spatial composition

Abstraction of Natural forms

Fulton pedestrian mall

Honesty in expression of material

Balancing human, environmental, and aesthetic interest

Forecast Garden for the Aluminum Company of Americ

László Moholy-Nagy. AXL II , 1927

Burden garden. Plan. Westchester County, New York, 1945 Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII , 1923.

Create a Sense of extension of space into beyond

Use of Multiple focus points