Pioneer of tropical landscape architecture
Subtitle: William Lyman Phillips in Florida
By: Faith Reyher Jackson.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Phillips, William Lyman, 1885-1966; Landscape architects -- Florida -- Biography; Landscape architecture -- Florida
Other titles: Tropical landscape architecture
Description: William Lyman Phillips (1885-1966) played a seminal role in the landscaping of Florida and in the history of landscape architecture, designing the world famous Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami (begun in 1938) as well as hundreds of other sites, four of them on the National Register. This biography, brings to life the story of the quiet, self-effacing man whose love of Florida's tropical and subtropical botany has had such a profound influence on the way Florida looks today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.