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Daniel Urban Kiley is generally considered to be America's foremost postwar landscape architect. Yet the work from the first two decades of his career is little known, despite both its inherent interest and its importance as a testing ground for his better known later work. This book focuses on Kiley's most provocative and creative projects from 1940-60. It reproduces many drawings, including plans for his U.S. Air Force Academy and Independence Mall projects. Four landscape architecture professors, the archivist of the Kiley collection, and a practicing landscape architect here present analytical investigations of Kiley's rarely studied early housing projects and garden prototypes, his garden plans for the Hollin Hills subdivision in suburban Washington, and, in new ways, his best-known work, the Irvin Miller Garden.
"Kiley's impact upon world landscape is substantial and memorable, and will continue into the predictable future. . . . In his quiet way he is a true leader."
-- Garret Eckbo
Daniel Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens follows Richard Haag: Bloedel
Reserve and Gas Works Park in Princeton Architectural Press's Landscape
Views series. This series of small-format pamphlets discusses current
issues in landscape architecture in both visual and critical manners.
Future titles will explore the works of Thomas Church, Roberto Burle
Marx, and Jacques Simon.
on the cover: Miller Garden, 1997 (Gary R. Hilderbrand)
CONTENTS
Preface
James Marston Fitch
Introduction: A New England Yankee in an Internationalist Court
Joseph Disponzio
Early Housing Projects and Garden Prototypes, 1941-52
Anita Berrizbeitia
The Hundred Gardens: The Social, Historical, and Design Contexts of
Hollin Hills
Daniel Donovan
Theme and Variation at Hollin Hills: A Typological Investigation
Mark A. Klopfer
Dan Kiley's Miller Garden: Coming to Light
Gary R. Hilderbrand
Dan Kiley, Landscape Architect: the First Two Decades
A Symposium in Conjunction with the Dan Kiley Exhibition
GSD Web Site (produced by Harvard Design Magazine)
Publication Title
Dan Urban Kiley: The Early Gardens
Year Published
1999, Princeton Architectural Press
Editor(s)/Author(s)
William S. Saunders, editor
with essays by: Anita Berrizbeitia, Joseph Disponzio, Daniel Donovan,
James Marston Fitch, Gary R. Hilderbrand, Mark A. Knopfer
At the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collections: SB470.K55 D35 1999
Special Collections: Rare SB470.K55 D35 1999
Selected Bibliography:
Dan Kiley prepared by the Frances Loeb Library, December 1997