Landscape for Living Hardcover - 1950

E-271: Duell Sloan and Pearce. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1950. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, New York. 1950. 262 pgs. Maps. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. From the perspective of active practice and teaching in Los Angeles, Eckbo analyzes the theory and practice of landscape development in western culture. He illustrates and explains solutions to problems in specific applications and implementation, and explores theories developed from analyzing those solutions. Most of the examples are his own work. Garrett Eckbo (1910-1996) was one of the most highly respected and influential American modernist landscape architects. He worked assiduously to overthrow the Beaux-Arts system of landscape design and to develop an approach that would address the social and economic challenges of the modern world. Eckbo rejected the centrality of nature as a psychological and spiritual source of inspiration, criticizing the palliative introduction of nature into cities in parks designed by Olmsted and other nineteenth-century landscape architects and arguing instead for a scientific method that would provide a model for a new approach to landscape design entirely free of preconceptions. Deliberately experimental, Eckbo s designs were centered on the garden, which he believed was the prototype for all landscape design. His built work was influenced by modernist European architecture, modern art, and vernacular landscape traditions. Published in 1950, Landscape for Living presents a synthesis of Eckbo s thinking and professional work and sets forth his theoretical approach to achieving the total landscape. Illustrations throughout the book feature his own designs for gardens, parks, and institutional projects, group housing from his graduate years, work for the Farm Security Administration, and projects by the firm of Eckbo, Royston and Williams. David C. Streatfield s introduction chronicles Eckbo s life to 1950, from his lonely childhood through his rebellious years at Harvard and well into his distinguished early career as a landscape designer, prolific author, and committed social activist, interpreting Eckbo s densely written text as a reflection of this history. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 262 pages .