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Sarah Allaback
HELP LALH PUBLISH A BOOK ABOUT THE LANDSCAPE DESIGNS OF DAVID KAMP!
Please help us raise $35,000 to publish a new book by the renowned landscape architect David Kamp, FASLA. Kamp’s international career has been guided by a commitment to designing landscapes that promote the health and well-being of individuals and communities. Kamp’s firm, Dirtworks Landscape Architecture, is based on the philosophy that dirt works: nature can […]
VIEW Mails This Fall!
VIEW 2020 features articles about the designed meadows surrounding a mid-century house in Connecticut, teaching landscapes in Ann Arbor, Poughkeepsie, and Santa Barbara, and images of wild passages in NYC’s Central Park by acclaimed photographer Sara Cedar Miller. If you are not a member of LALH or your membership has lapsed, join now to receive […]
NEW RELEASE: Robert Royston
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of Robert Royston by Reuben M. Rainey and JC Miller, the fourth volume in the Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. The first biography of the landscape architect Robert Royston (1918-2008) documents the life and work of a designer and teacher who […]
NEW RELEASE: The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of The Greatest Beach: A History of Cape Cod National Seashore by Ethan Carr. In the mid-nineteenth century, Thoreau recognized the importance of preserving the complex and fragile landscape of Cape Cod, with its weathered windmills, expansive beaches, dunes, wetlands, and harbors, […]
NEW RELEASE: Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners
LALH and the University of Georgia Press are pleased to announce the publication of Hare & Hare, Landscape Architects and City Planners by Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein. When Sidney J. Hare (1860–1938) and S. Herbert Hare (1888–1960) launched their Kansas City firm in 1910, they founded what would become the most influential landscape architecture […]
LALH AT MODERNISM WEEK IN PALM SPRINGS, FEBRUARY 13-23, 2020
Four LALH Authors Featured in MW Landscape + Outdoor Living Program The American Garden at Midcentury In the 1930s, American landscape architects began experimenting with designs that would give their clients easy access to outdoor spaces where they could relax and socialize informally. Especially in California, these designs served as extensions of interior spaces. LALH […]
LALH AUTHORS FEATURED AT MODERNISM WEEK, FEBRUARY 14-24, PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
Jane Amidon, author of the forthcoming Masters of Modern Landscape Design series volume on Dan Kiley, and Kenneth Helphand, author of Lawrence Halprin, the third volume in the series, will give presentations based on their books during Modernism Week 2019. Kelly Comras, author of Ruth Shellhorn, will focus on the landscape architect’s work at Disneyland […]
LAWRENCE HALPRIN WINS AWARD
ASLA’s Oregon Chapter presented an Award of Excellence to Kenneth Helphand, FASLA, for Lawrence Halprin (LALH 2017), the third book in the LALH Masters of Modern Landscape Design series. Read more about the book. […]