“ Let every Nation

know, whether it

wishes us well or ill,

that we shall pay any

price, bear any burden,

meet any hardship,

support any friend or

oppose any foe, in

order to assure the

survival and success of

liberty. “

, the best-known English landscape architect of his generation

Born on October 8th ,1900

in Chesea,London.

He studied at the Architectural Association in London in 1919.

Died in July 17th ,1996.

He was an Architect, town planner, landscape architect, writer…

Founder member of ILA [1929],

President ILA [1939-49];

Principal of Architectural Association [1939-42],

Founder member and First President of International Federation of Landscape Architects [1948]; Life President IFLA [1954]

Kennedy Memorial garden

Caveman restaurant

Sutton place garden

Moody gardens

Harvey’s Stone roofgarden

Mottisfont Abbey Garden

Civic landscape:

Fulmar GrangeCliveden Garden

HaverCastle Garden

Church Hill memorial gardens, WarwickshireHemel Hempstead water gardens, Oxford

Kennedy MemorialRunnymede, SurreyCrematorium, LincsArmagh Cathedral; Processional WayExeter CathedralDevon;Civic park

Modena, ItalyBrescia public park, ItalyTurin sports park; Italy

Walsall civic centre

Gardens: Bingham’s Melcombe, Dorset; Kingcombe, Glocs; Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire; Stanmore,

Middlesex; Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park; The Holme Gardens, Regent’s Park,

London; Kelmarsh Hall, Northampton; Broughton House, Drumlanrig; Mottisfont Abbey,

Hampshire; Pusey House, Oxfordshire;Hever Castle, Kent; Overbury House,

Gloucestershire; Cottesbrooke Hall, Northamptonshire; 19 Grove Terrace, London; St

Paul’s Walden, Hertfordshire; Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire; Sandringham House, Norfolk;

Uckfield, Sussex; Ballater, Scotland; Harvey’s Store roof garden, Guildford; Cliveden,

Bucks; Horsted Place, Sussex; Wexham Springs and Fulmer Grange, Bucks; Villa

Corner, Treviso, Italy; Tidcombe Manor, Wilts; Shute House, Wilts; Framingham Hall,

Norfolk; Wisley gardens, Surrey; Chequers, Bucks; Cheveningham, Kent; Stratfield

Saye, Berks; Buckenham Broad, Norfolk; Everton Park, Beds; 27 Grove Terrace; The

Grange, Hants; Dewlish House, Dorset; Aberford Court, Yorks; Hartwell House, Bucks;

Sutton Place, Guildford; Barnwell Manor, Northants; Wilverley, Hants; 35 Upper Addison

Gardens, London; Quattrocentro Villa, Asolo, Italy; Danemore Park, Kent; Denbies,

Surrey; Cairo garden, Egypt

Books and other publications

Italian Gardens of the Renaissance (with J Shepherd) 1926

A Landscape plan for Sark. This report was presented to an informal meeting of the members of the 1967 Baroque Gardens of Austria. 1932

Blue Circle Cement Hope Works Derbyshire : [1980?]

Garden Decoration & Ornament for Smaller Houses. 1936 Gardens of Europe. 1937 Gardens & design, Gardens of Europe. 1995. Vol.3, Studies in landscape design. 1996. The Guelph lectures on landscape design. 1983. The landscape of civilisation : 1989.

The landscape of man : 1975.

Motopia: a study in the evolution of urban landscape. 1961 The Oxford companion to gardens 1986.

Report accompanying an Outline Plan for Guildford prepared for the Municipal Borough Council. 1945

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, etc.. 1933

Studies in Landscape Design. 1960 The studies of a landscape designer over 80 years c1993.

BookContemporary Architects(editor-Muriel Emanuel)

Websites www.wikipedia.com

www.gardenvisit.com

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