Garrett Eckbo
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Garrett Eckbo Background Background Freeform Park, Washington, D.C. Partial site/ planting plan. Student project at Harva rd 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
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Garrett EckboBackground
Background
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
