Title: The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens
First published: September 30, 2005
Description: 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.
Subjects: Gardens, History, Design, Landscape gardening, Landscape architects, Biography, Landscape design, Criticism and interpretation, Landscape architecture, Parks