PLSC 180 - LANDSCAPE DESIGN,
FUNCTION AND PERFORMANCE
HISTORY UNIT, DESIGNERS AND KEY
PERSONALITIES Q&A
Humphrey Repton - Answer-Invented term "landscape gardening" to express his
theory that the art requires 'the united powers of the landscape painter and the
practical gardener' "Red Books" leather bound book showing before and after
drawings of his landscape design.
Major Lawrence Johnston - Answer-British garden designer and plantsman; the
owner and designer of two influential gardens - Hidcote Manor Garden in Britain and
Jardin Serre de la Madone in France
Gertrude Jekyll - Answer-Often worked with Edwin Lutyens to design colourful
gardens around the houses he designed, Victorian
Christopher Lloyd - Answer-British gardener and author; 20th-century chronicler for
thickly planted, labour-intensive country gardening
George Washington - Answer-his practiced surveyor's eye that brought so many
different landscape elements together, creating a setting that was at the same time
dramatic and tranquil, grand, and intimate; Mount Vernon
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
FUNCTION AND PERFORMANCE
HISTORY UNIT, DESIGNERS AND KEY
PERSONALITIES Q&A
Humphrey Repton - Answer-Invented term "landscape gardening" to express his
theory that the art requires 'the united powers of the landscape painter and the
practical gardener' "Red Books" leather bound book showing before and after
drawings of his landscape design.
Major Lawrence Johnston - Answer-British garden designer and plantsman; the
owner and designer of two influential gardens - Hidcote Manor Garden in Britain and
Jardin Serre de la Madone in France
Gertrude Jekyll - Answer-Often worked with Edwin Lutyens to design colourful
gardens around the houses he designed, Victorian
Christopher Lloyd - Answer-British gardener and author; 20th-century chronicler for
thickly planted, labour-intensive country gardening
George Washington - Answer-his practiced surveyor's eye that brought so many
different landscape elements together, creating a setting that was at the same time
dramatic and tranquil, grand, and intimate; Mount Vernon
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
