Title: The Donnell and Eckbo gardens : modern Californian masterworks /
Authors: Treib, Marc; Church, Thomas Dolliver; Eckbo, Garrett.
Publisher: William Stout,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Church, Thomas Dolliver Criticism and interpretation.; Eckbo, Garrett Criticism and interpretation.; Church, Thomas Dolliver; Eckbo, Garrett.; Landscape architecture California.; Landscape gardening California.; Gardens California History.; Parks California History.; Landscape architects United States.; Gardens California Design.; Landscape architects California Biography.; Landscape design California.
Abstract: For the first time, a detailed look at two California gardens that were pivotal in defining mid-20th-century landscape design in the United States: Thomas Church's 1948 Donnell garden in Sonoma, California, and Garrett Eckbo's 1959 ALCOA Forecast garden in Los Angeles. Church's brilliant integration of indoor-outdoor living and Eckbo's imaginative use of new materials like aluminum left nostalgia behind and created America's new backyard. From the Environmental Design Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contents: The Donnell Garden: A modern stage for outdoor living -- Thomas Church: formation -- Early practice -- Postwar gardens -- The clients and the commission -- Design and realization -- Response -- Some years later -- The garden today -- Notes -- The Eckbo Alcoa Forecast Garden: a landscape of aluminum -- A Pilgrim's Progress -- Wonderland Park -- The Eckbo house and early garden -- Aluminum and the Forecast program -- The Alcoa Forecast project -- Designing an aluminum garden -- Publicizing the aluminum garden -- Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Thomas Church collection -- The Garret Eckbo collection.