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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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Page 1: Garrett Eckbo

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

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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

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Pools as the point of departure for spatial composition

Abstraction of Natural forms

Fulton pedestrian mall

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Honesty in expression of material

Balancing human, environmental, and aesthetic interest

Forecast Garden for the Aluminum Company of Americ

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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