PLSC 180 - Landscape Design,
Function and Performance History
Unit, Designers and Key Personalities
Q&A
Thomas Jefferson - Answer-Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as for the
University of Virginia, evince his rationalist approach to landscape gardening, his use
of geometrical arrangements and terracing, and his affinity for melding architecture
with the surrounding site
Pierre L'Enfant - Answer-French architect who designed the layout of Washington,
DC with broad avenues and park-like areas
Andrew Jackson Downing - Answer-First American writer on landscape architecture
topics
Editor and publisher of The Horticulturist magazine (1846-52)
Comes from a horticulturist family. Father was a nurseryman
Passion for scenery and persuasive writing
Contribution to landscape, horticulture
Fredrick Law Olmsted - Answer-leader of the "City Beautiful" movement and
designed Central Park, Biltmore, Niagara Falls, etc
Jens Jensen - Answer-restoration of nature, Lincoln garden, prairie style
Thomas Cole - Answer-Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his
landscape paintings
Albert Bierstadt - Answer-German born U.S Painter know for his large landscape
portraits of the 19th century west
Edwin Church - Answer-Hudson River school co-founder
Daniel Burnham - Answer-CHICAGO, began 1906. A leading architect and city
planner, produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago
Dan Kiley - Answer-*supreme master of modern garden
*the miller house
-air force academy in CO springs
-modern layout
Lawrence Halprin - Answer-influential American landscape architect, designer and
teacher; Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco and his work at the 1962 Seattle
World's Fair
Function and Performance History
Unit, Designers and Key Personalities
Q&A
Thomas Jefferson - Answer-Monticello and Poplar Forest, as well as for the
University of Virginia, evince his rationalist approach to landscape gardening, his use
of geometrical arrangements and terracing, and his affinity for melding architecture
with the surrounding site
Pierre L'Enfant - Answer-French architect who designed the layout of Washington,
DC with broad avenues and park-like areas
Andrew Jackson Downing - Answer-First American writer on landscape architecture
topics
Editor and publisher of The Horticulturist magazine (1846-52)
Comes from a horticulturist family. Father was a nurseryman
Passion for scenery and persuasive writing
Contribution to landscape, horticulture
Fredrick Law Olmsted - Answer-leader of the "City Beautiful" movement and
designed Central Park, Biltmore, Niagara Falls, etc
Jens Jensen - Answer-restoration of nature, Lincoln garden, prairie style
Thomas Cole - Answer-Founder of the Hudson River school, famous for his
landscape paintings
Albert Bierstadt - Answer-German born U.S Painter know for his large landscape
portraits of the 19th century west
Edwin Church - Answer-Hudson River school co-founder
Daniel Burnham - Answer-CHICAGO, began 1906. A leading architect and city
planner, produced a magnificent plan for redesigning Chicago
Dan Kiley - Answer-*supreme master of modern garden
*the miller house
-air force academy in CO springs
-modern layout
Lawrence Halprin - Answer-influential American landscape architect, designer and
teacher; Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco and his work at the 1962 Seattle
World's Fair
