LANDSCAPE

ARCHITECTS
The art of landscape architecture is frequently disregarded. However, when done correctly, it can
produce stunning and lovely spaces. The design of outdoor areas that enhance and develop the
environment is known as landscape architecture. It entails the management, guardianship, and
management of land and plants. To design stunning and useful outdoor places, landscape
architects frequently collaborate with other experts like architects, planners, engineers,
developers, builders, and environmentalists. It is the job of landscape architects to design settings
that are both attractive and useful. They must take into account a number of things, including
geography, climate, and the requirements of the users of the place. They should also strive for
sustainable design and be conscious of environmental problems like erosion. Thus, it is important
to know, as aspiring architects, that there are landscape architects that are essential to every
project as other professions are. After all, designing architecture isn't all about building structure,
it should always involve the environment around it and how the buildings will interact and be in
harmony with each other. As these architects have said, "Landscape makes a building / space
much more."

INTRODUCTION

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Due to his spectacular creations, André Le
Nôtre, who lived in France in the 17th
century, became an icon of French
landscaping. As he was born in Paris in 1613,
he was essentially born into gardening as
having been the son and grandson of Royal
Park Supervisors who formerly worked in
the gardens of the now-demolished Palais
de Tuileres. Le Nôtre succeeded his father
as the head gardener of the Tuileries in 1637
as he grew older.
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His life has taken on some exciting new
dimensions, just like his gardens. It is no
longer sufficient to merely mention the
02 SIGNIFICANT WORKS philosopher Descartes in passing as the
Château De Versailles, Paris source of Le Nôtre's "Cartesian"
Château de Saint-Cloud, understanding of geometric space. The
Seine
Vaux le Vicomte, Maincy
landscape architect used perspectival
techniques called "anamorphosis" and André
Le Nôtre
Château de Chantilly, Oise "collimation" to enlarge distant objects and
Palais des Tuileries, Paris make levels and characteristics appear as
Greenwich Park, London the viewer goes forward from certain
viewing spots in their foreground.

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Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford,
Connecticut, in 1822. When he was eight years old,
his father sent him to a local clergyman to obtain
his education. Olmsted spent the following
twenty years traveling and working variously as a
prosperous farmer, writer, journalist, and
merchant after illness stopped him from enrolling
in Yale College in 1837.

He spent the following 20 years acquiring

knowledge and abilities from a range of pursuits,
which he later applied to founding the profession
of landscape architecture. Olmsted was the first
Central Park to adopt the term "landscape architect" as a
professional title, and he considered it to be a
form of art rather than merely a vocation. He is
popularly called the "Maker of Parks".
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He continuously clarified the "leading motive" of
Central Park, New York the natural site by removing and planting in order
Grounds of U.S. Capitol, to simplify the scene. After working on Central
Washington D.C.
Jackson Park, Chicago
Park for thirty years, he wrote to his ex-partner
Calvert Vaux, saying, "The major value of all the Frederick
Olmsted
works you and I have done is that in them the
Biltmore Estate, North
bigger opportunities of the terrain have not been
Carolina
lost in aiming at conventional suburban
Delaware Park, New York gardening, cottage gardening effects. Greater
than most gardeners can, we have left it alone.
But never too little or too much."

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Olin graduated with a degree in
architecture from the University of
Washington in 1961 despite being born in
Wisconsin and raised in Alaska. Prior to
traveling to England on a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972–1973 and
to Rome as a Fellow in Landscape
Architecture at the American Academy in
Rome in 1974–1976, he worked as a
landscape architect in Seattle and New
York. Laurie is a respected educator, an
Washington Monument accomplished writer, and one of the most
well-known landscape architects working
today. Olin and Bob Hanna founded the
business Hanna/Olin in 1976. In 2008, the
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Washington Monument
Grounds, Washington D.C. The design philosophy of their firm are
National Veterans Memorial
and Museum, Ohio
"Civic Realism and Landscape", showing
the vision of civic life and public life. Letting Laurie
Olin
Columbus Circle, New York the people see the view of their city from
where they were. They emphasize the
appreciation of the urban environment that
is paramount.

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Lancelot Brown, a Northumberland native,
was born in Kirkharle and attended school
there until he was sixteen years old. He then
quit to work as an apprentice head gardener
at Kirkharle Hall, where he remained until he
was twenty-three. After learning under the
direction of others for a number of years, he
made his way south, first to Lincolnshire and
then to Kiddington Hall in Oxfordshire. His
first landscape contract called for the
construction of a new lake in the hall's park
grounds.
Alnwick Castle
"Capability" Brown created the English
landscape style that is known across the
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gardens all around Britain. The three practical
Stowe, Buckinghamshire concepts of comfort, economy, and grace
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire informed his sense of style. He created vastly
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
expansive settings that served as the
backdrop for homes surrounded by parkland Lancelot
Brown
Hampton Court, London with trees and finely sculpted ground. Along
Croome Park, Worcestershire with carefully planned architectural elements
Harewood, Yorkshire like follies, temples, and bridges, his
landscape designs included lakes with
serpentine shapes.

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Burle Marx, who was born in So Paulo and was
raised in Rio de Janeiro, went to Berlin in 1928 to
study art. He was first exposed to the creative
potential of tropical vegetation during trips to the
Dahlem Botanical Gardens in the city. He put these
theories to the test by experimenting with local
plants at his house when he returned to Rio in 1930
to study art at the National Academy of Fine Arts.
Burle Marx's work attracted the attention of his
professor, architect Lcio Costa, who hired him to
create the first garden for the Schwartz House.

Innovative Modernist designs by Burle Marx

immediately became well-known. He considered his
Cavanellas Residence landscapes as works of art, thinking of them first
and foremost as paintings, and used vibrant
amorphous paving patterns and daring
combinations of massed plantings as his color pallet.
02 SIGNIFICANT WORKS He devoted his life to the study of horticulture and
traveled to Brazil's jungles from his farm Barra de
Edmundo Cavanellas Guaratiba in search of new plant specimens. Burle
Residence Marx, a fellow environmentalist, was one of the first

Roberto
Vargem Grande Fazenda Brazilians to oppose deforestation in public.

Olivo Gomes Residence

Burle Marx’s approach is clear in all aspects of his

Marx
Raul de Souza Martins design work – from the design plans, which were
Residence works of art in themselves, to the bold, sinuous lines
of his gardens, to the sculptural nature of the plants
used within them.

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A renowned Filipino architect known as IP Cultural Center of the Philippines
Santos, Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr. is well-known Complex, Pasay
for his designs that encourage social San Miguel Corporation Building,
interaction. On September 5, 1929, he was born Ortigas
in Malabon, Rizal. He graduated with a degree
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in architecture from the University of Santo
Grounds, Manila
Tomas in 1954 before attending the University
Paco Park and Cemetery, Manila
of Southern California School of Architecture to
complete his graduate studies. He began his
career there and has since produced some of
the greatest works in Philippine history. He was Paco Park and Cemetery
dubbed the "Father of Philippine Landscape
Architecture" due to his decades of experience.
He was also named a National Artist of the
Philippines in the discipline of architecture in
2006.

He used a lot of concrete and created linear, or

architectural, landscapes. However, these were
subdued by a combination of designs,

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materials, and textures, creating the "malamig
sa mata" effect of which he frequently spoke. As

Santos Jr.
a reflection of our culture, as he would explain,
the incorporation of regional artwork into his
setting was crucial. His signature softscapes
featured mass plantings, which produced a
visual feast of colors and textures.
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Paulo Alcazaren is a landscape architect and Orchard Road, Singapore
urban planner who graduated from the University Roxas Boulevard Redevelopment,
of the Philippines at Diliman with degrees in both Manila
architecture and landscape architecture. He
Proposed Pasig River Esplanade
graduated from the University of Singapore with
a Master's in Urban Design. For the past 30 years,
he has worked as a design consultant for urban
and landscape architecture, 12 of those in
Singapore, where he completed more than 150
projects in 14 different nations. Alcazaren's
instruction has its roots in the guidance of some
of the most well-known figures in Filipino Iloilo Esplanade
architecture. He collaborated with the late
National Artist for Architecture, Ildelfonso P.
Santos, Jr., early in his career. Alcazaren said of
him in a tribute: "The artistry of a man is made
more notable because he works in the most
difficult medium—nature: God's earth, plants,
shrubs, and trees."

Paulo is a landscape architect and urban planner

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who has created areas for the preservation of
cultural heritage and the quality of life in some of

Alcazaren
the world's most crowded cities. Alcazaren is
creating options in cities where bureaucracy and
policy are problems, such as raised pathways and
flood-resistant buildings. He paves the path for
the community's access to historic sites and
cultural venues. Local Landscape Architects

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One of the well-known Filipino architects in his Park, Ayala
specialty, Efren Aurelio, a landscape architect, has Zuellig Building, Makati
contributed to numerous significant real estate Villa De Mercedes, Davao
projects across the country. Ar. Efren Aurelio
Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu
credits his aesthetic sensibility to having grown
up in the formerly picturesque coastal village of SM Grass Residences, Quezon City
Paraaque on the seaward side of Manila Bay. He
received his degree in landscape architecture in
1979, becoming the first graduating class at the
University of the Philippines to do so. After
working for two years in the nation, he spent the
following four years in Singapore and the Greenbelt Park Redev.
following eleven in Hong Kong, where he honed
his skills and knowledge on regional projects.

Although many people consider landscape

architecture to be merely simplistic, it actually
goes beyond aesthetics. "Ideas like better layout
of the land, better grouping of buildings, better
road layout, better circulation of pedestrians. We
are trained to see many opportunities with the

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terrain and we can manipulate the landscape, if
needed, and specific elements in order to

Aurelio
maximize a property for the benefit of the people
who will eventually use it," says Efren, who has
completed several significant projects for
residential, commercial, institutional, and
industrial uses.
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& DESIGN DICTUM Rizal Park, Manila
Dolly was the nation's first female landscape Libingan ng mga Bayani
architect. She established the profession, an Dambana ng Kagitingan, Bataan
associated discipline of architecture that focuses Residential Gardens
on creating outdoor places for people to use and
enjoy, in the early 1960s alongside IP Santos. In
the late 1950s, she earned her architecture degree
from the University of Santo Tomas. Due to the
dearth of Filipinos working in the sector, the
college's then-dean, renowned architect-planner
Angel Nakpil, that she pursue a master's degree
in landscape architecture abroad. For all her
contributions to the profession and the Dambana ng Kagitingan
development of two generations of students, she
was dubbed the “Mother of Philippine Landscape
Architecture.

Her collection of work here in the 1960s and 1970s

was influenced by California landscape designs
that offered minimalist, practical settings to go
with mid-century bungalows. When suburban life
began to take hold in Metro Manila's gated

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"villages" in the 1960s and 1970s, Dolly introduced
Californian suburban outdoor living to nearly 200

Perez
residential gardens. Two of these villages—
Greenhills and later Valle Verde—were where
Dolly herself resided and reared a family. She
hosted numerous events, many of which were
held outdoors in settings she created to fit
Filipino culture. Local Landscape Architects

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& DESIGN DICTUM Rizal Park, Manila
Dolly was the nation's first female landscape Libingan ng mga Bayani
architect. She established the profession, an Dambana ng Kagitingan, Bataan
associated discipline of architecture that focuses Residential Gardens
on creating outdoor places for people to use and
enjoy, in the early 1960s alongside IP Santos. In
the late 1950s, she earned her architecture degree
from the University of Santo Tomas. Due to the
dearth of Filipinos working in the sector, the
college's then-dean, renowned architect-planner
Angel Nakpil, that she pursue a master's degree
in landscape architecture abroad. For all her
contributions to the profession and the Dambana ng Kagitingan
development of two generations of students, she
was dubbed the “Mother of Philippine Landscape
Architecture.

Her collection of work here in the 1960s and 1970s

was influenced by California landscape designs
that offered minimalist, practical settings to go
with mid-century bungalows. When suburban life
began to take hold in Metro Manila's gated

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"villages" in the 1960s and 1970s, Dolly introduced
Californian suburban outdoor living to nearly 200

Herras-
residential gardens. Two of these villages—
Greenhills and later Valle Verde—were where
Dolly herself resided and reared a family. She

Tence
hosted numerous events, many of which were
held outdoors in settings she created to fit
Filipino culture. Local Landscape Architects

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 17 Famous Landscape Architects and their Best Designs. (2022, September 1). Retrieved from Luxury Columnist:
https://luxurycolumnist.com/famous-landscape-architects/

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