Preferred Citation: Treib, Marc, and Dorothée Imbert. Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6g50073x/

 

Index

Numbers in italics indicate figure pages

A

Ain, Gregory, 57 , 67 , 150 , 154 . See also Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Community Homes; Mar Vista/Modernique Homes; Park Planned Homes

ALCOA . See Aluminum Company of America

ALCOA Forecast Garden. See Eckbo, Garrett, gardens

Alexander, Robert, 57

Alexander, Will, 118

Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA ), 84 , 87 , 91 , 92 , 104 n100

Archipenko, Alexander, 25

Arp, Jean (Hans), 29 , 77 , 110

Arts and Architecture , 150 , 162 ;

Case Study House program, 55 ;

Case Study House #20 (Buff, Straub, and Hensman), 55 , 56 ;

Designs for Postwar Living competition, 154 , 162 –164

B

Barcelona Pavilion. See German Pavilion

Barr, Alfred, 22 , 25 , 61 , 100n41

Bauer; Catherine, 143 , 147

Bauhaus, 22

Baylis, Douglas, 94

Bel Geddes, Norman, 42

Bernardi, Theodore, 48 , 145

Bitter Harvest (Cletus Daniels), 143

Braque, Georges, 29

Breuer; Marcel, 16 , 115 , 143 , 176n55

Burle Marx, Roberto, 94 –95

C

Cairns, Burton, 46 , 47 , 48 , 102n72 , 106 , 121

Case Study House program. See Arts and Architecture

Cauldwell, Christopher, 29

Church, Thomas, 5 , 6 , 42 –43, 48 –49, 69 , 71 , 73 , 94 , 106 ;

gardens: Donnell (Sonoma), 73 , 74 ;

Henderson (Hillsborough), 73 , 74

Cirino, Nicholas, 122 , 147

Conkin, Paul, 140

Contempoville. See Eckbo, Garrett, studies, Harvard University

Contini, Edgardo, 166

Cooperative communities, 155 , 158

Craig, James Osborne, 5

D

Daniels, Cletus, 143

Day, Alfred, 150 . See also Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Community Homes

Defense workers housing. See Eckbo, Garrett

Delano, Frederic, 174n12

DeMars, Vernon, 46 , 47 , 106 , 121 , 122 , 145 , 158

Depression, 115 , 116 , 140 , 175 ;

agricultural migration, 175n35;

Federal Aid, criticism of, 117 ;

New Deal agencies, 115 ;

New Deal programs, 43 , 115 , 117 , 140 , 143 , 175n26 , 176n51;

rural exodus, 43 , 116 , 118 ;

see also Eckbo, Garrett, migrant camps

Designs for Outdoor Living (Margaret Olthof Goldsmith), 38 , 71

Diniz, Carlos, 21 , 69 , 81 , 84

Dinwiddie, John, 49

E

Eckbo, Arline Williams. See Williams, Arline (Eckbo)

Eckbo, Dean and Williams, 92

Eckbo Dean Austin Williams (EDAW ), 95 , 104n107

Eckbo, Garrett

— community planning, 67 –69, 124 , 148 , 173 ;

Community Homes (Reseda), 84 , 137 , 150 –58, 151, 153 , 156 , 160 , 164 , 166 , 168 , 171 ;

Crestwood Hills (Los Angeles), 166 , 167 , 168 , 169 , 171 ;

Flexible Co-op, 109 , 110 , 147 , 148 , 155 ;

Ladera Housing Co-operative (Palo Alto), 147 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 150 , 154 , 162 ;

Mar Vista/Modernique Homes (Los Angeles), 69 , 162 , 163 , 163 , 164 , 165 , 165 , 166 , plate III ;

Park Planned Homes (Altadena), 158 , 159 , 160 , 161 , 162 , 164 , 177 n 77;

Wonderland Park (Los Angeles), 84 , 103 n98 , 166 , 170 , 171 , 172 , 173 .

See also Eckbo, Garrett, gardens: ALCOA Forecast

— defense workers' housing, 47 , 48 , 143 –47, 144, 146 ;

Taft, 46 , 120 , 121 , 133 –35, 134 , 145 ;

Vallejo, 145 , 146 .

See Farm Security Administration (FSA )

— design projects:

General Motors Pavilion (New York), 41 , 42 ;

United States Housing Authority (Washington, D.C.), 39 , 113 , 114

— gardens:

ALCOA Forecast (Los Angeles), 84 –87, 86, 89 , 90 , 91 –92, 93 , 103n98 , 104nn100, 103 , 171 , 173 , plates XIII , XIV ;

for Armstrong Nurseries (Ontario, California), 10 –13, 10–12 , 18 , 57 , 99n17 , 137 ;

Burden (Westchester, New York), 61 , 63 ;

Cole (Beverly Hills), 73 , 76 , 77 , plate X ;

Cole (Oakland) 49 , 52–53;

Eckbo (Los Angeles), 84 , 85 ;

Edmunds (Pacific Palisades), 82 , 83 , plate IX ;

Eggers (Pasadena), 62;

Firk (Los Angeles), 64 , 67 , plate VII ;

Fisk (Atherton), 49 , 50, 51 ;

Goetz (Holmby Hills), 82 , 82 , 83 ;

Goldstone (Beverly Hills), 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 80;

Gutheim (Washington, D.C.), 39 –42, 40;

Jones (Los Angeles), 23 , 24 , plate IV ;

Nickel (Central Valley), 64 , 66 ;

Reid (Palo Alto), 49 , 52;

Shulman (Los Angeles), 60, 180 ,

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181 , plate XII ;

Snyder (Berkeley), 7 , 9;

Sudarsky (Bakersfield), 67, 68

— on housing standards, 145 , 147 , 158

— Landscape for Living , 83 –84

— life:

early years, 2 , 4 , 97 n3;

in Los Angeles, 59

— migrant camps, 42 , 43 , 45, 105 , 106 , 115 , 119 , 121 –24, 122, 125 , 126 , 132 , 133 , 135 –41, 136, 138 , 139 , 147 , 176 , plate II ;

architecture, 119 , 176 ;

Chandler (Arizona), 46 , 119 , 119 , 121 , 127 ;

landscape design, 46 , 47 , 102n65 , 133 , 137 , 141 , 147 ;

life in camps, 118 , 126 , 140 , 141 , 176 ;

list, 122 ;

planning, 123 , 126 , 135 , 140 ;

Tulare, 116 , 119 , 120 , 121 , 123 , 141 , 143 ;

Weslaco (Texas), 46 , 129 , 130, 131 ;

Winters, 135 ;

Woodville, 127 , 128 , 129 ;

Yuba City, 46 , 121 , 127 , 134 .

See also Farm Security Administration (FSA )

— on planting design, 77 , 80

— portrait, 3, 39 , 107

— on relation of landscape to architecture, 135 . See also Landscape design

— on site planning, 124

— studies, Harvard University, 13 –20, 24 , 24 , 31 –39, 39 , 47 , 49 , 108 ;

Contempoville, 33 , 36 –38, 37 , 39 , 47 , 49 , 110 –13, 111, 112 , 145 , 168 , 174n4;

curriculum, 15 , 99n28;

Freeform Park, 18 , 19 , 20 , 20 , 24 , plate I ;

scholarship competition, 13 , 13 , 14 ;

Small Gardens in the City, 31 –36, 32, 34 , 35 , 38 –39, 49 , 101n53 , 108 –10, 137

— studies, University of California, Berkeley, 4 –5, 6 –7;

Esquisse for a Hillside Garden, 9 , 10 ;

An Estate in the Manner of Louis XIV, 7, 8 , 98n14 , 108 ;

Gottrox Country Club, 7, 8

— on style, 11 , 20 , 108 ;

naturalism vs. formalism, 168

— teaching, University of California, Berkeley, 95

Eckbo, Royston and Williams, 49 , 55 , 57 , 83 , 92 , 104 n104 , 150

EDAW (Eckbo Dean Austin Williams), 95 , 104n107

Eichler Homes, 150

Eisner, Simon, 150

El Paseo (James Osborne Craig), 5

Ellwood, Craig, 57

Emmons, Frederick, 150

F

Factories in the Field (Carey McWilliams), 127

Falkenstein, Claire, 103 n93

Farm Security Administration (FSA ), organization, 119 ;

San Francisco Office, 44 , 102 n65 , 106 , 119 , 121 , 122 , 126 , 133 .

See also Eckbo, Garrett, defense workers' housing; migrant camps and internment camps for Japanese Americans

Flexible co-op. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning

Freeform Park. See Eckbo, Garrett, studies, Harvard University

FSA . See Farm Security Administration

Fuller, Buckminster, 143 , 176 n55

Funk, John, 49 , 147 , 148

G

Gabo, Naum, 27

Gardens in the Modern Landscape (Christopher Tunnard), 17 , 100n31

German Pavilion, Barcelona (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe), 21 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 113

Goldsmith, Margaret Olthof, 38 , 71

Good, Albert H., 44

Graduate School of Design. See Eckbo, Garrett, studies, Harvard University

The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck), 42 , 118

Gregg, John W., 4 , 10 , 98 n7 . See also Eckbo, Garrett, studies, University of California, Berkeley

Gropius, Walter, 16 , 17 , 27 , 28 , 115 , 143 , 176n55

Guevrekian, Gabriel, 22 , 24

Gutheim, Frederick (Fritz), 39 , 113

H

Hallsteen, Herbert, 122

Halprin, Lawrence, 94 , 95

Hamlin, Talbot, 119 , 133

Harrison & Abramowitz, 61

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, 21

Hollins, Marion, 98n11;

Pasatiempo, 6 , 98n11

Hooverville, 118 , 118

Hubbard, Henry Vincent, 14 , 16 , 99n24

Hudnut, Joseph, 16 , 17

I

Internment camps for Japanese Americans, 143 , 145

Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design (Hubbard and Kimball), 14 –16, 99n24

J

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 5

Jackson, John Brinckerhoff, 97n1

Johnson, Joseph, 150 . See also Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Community Homes

Johnson, Philip, 21

Jones, Katherine, 4 , 98n7

Jones, Quincy, 150 , 166

Joseph, Phillip, 47

K

Kandinsky, Wassily, 29 , 59 , 61 ;

Composition I, 30 , 61 ;

Composition VIII , 61 , 62

Kent, Adaline, 74 , 103n93

Kent, T.J., 47

Ketchum, MacLeod and Grove, 87

Kiley, Dan, 25 , 25 , 108

Kimball, Theodora, 14 , 16 , 99n24

Klee, Paul, 59 , 61 , 64

― 193 ―

Kump, Ernest, 48

L

Ladera Housing Co-operative. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning

Landor, Walter, 47

Landscape design:

Beaux-Arts manner, 15 , 16 ;

links with art, 21 , 22 , 59 , 61 , 94 , 103n93;

science, influence on, 27 –29;

and space, 20 , 21 , 100 n36

Landscape for Living (Garrett Eckbo), 83 –84

Lange, Dorothea, 46 , 118 , 175n18

Lao Tzu, 21 , 100n38

Laurie, Michael, 59 , 94

Lautner, John, 57

Legrain, Pierre-Émile, 22 , 22 , 24 , 110

M

Malevich, Kasimir, 87 , 141 ;

Suprematist Composition , 88

Manzanar. See Internment camps for Japanese Americans

Mar Vista. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning

McHarg, Ian, 95

McWilliams, Carey, 127

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 21 , 27 , 29 , 113

Miró, Joan, 29 , 31 , 77

Mocine, Corwin, 47

Mock, Elizabeth, 129

Modernique Homes. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Mar Vista

Moholy-Nagy, László, 29 , 64 , 141 ;

AXL II, 65 ;

Composition no. 4, 30

Moser, William, 5

Mumford, Lewis, 25

Museum of Modern Art (New York), 22

Mutual Housing Association. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Crestwood Hills

N

National Park Service, 43 , 44 , 126 ;

camps, 126

Neutra, Richard, 57 , 177n78

New Deal. See Depression

Noguchi, Isamu, 29 , 61 , 64 , 77

O

Olin, Laurie, 95

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 4 , 13 , 98n6

Osmundson, Ted, 94

P

Park Planned Homes. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning

Pasatiempo, California, 6 , 98 n11

Picasso, Pablo, 21 , 27 , 29 ;

Figure, 26

R

Rainey, Reuben, 15

Ramona (Helen Hunt Jackson), 5

Regionalism, 5 , 43 , 44 , 140

Reseda. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning: Community Homes

Resettlement Administration, 115

Riggs, Lutah Maria, 5

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 115 , 117 , 118 , 140 , 143

Rose, James C., 18 , 21 , 24 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 108 ;

Bibby Estate (Kingston, New York), 26 , 27

Roth, Alfred, 121

Royston, Robert, 48 , 54 , 55 , 94 , 102n75

S

Saarinen, Eliel and Eero, 143 , 176 n55

Santa Barbara County Courthouse (William Moser), 5

Schindler, R. M., 57

Science, as influence on landscape design, 27 –29

Shulman, Julius, 181

Small Gardens in the City. See Eckbo, Garrett, studies, Harvard University

Smith, George Washington, 5

Smith, Whitney, 166

Soriano, Raphael, 57 , 181 . See also Eckbo, Garrett, gardens: Shulman

Steele, Fletcher, 22 , 108

Stein, Clarence, 38

Stein, Joseph Allen, 49 , 147 , 148

Steinbeck, John, 42 , 43 , 118

Steiner, Michael, 44

Swimming pools, 71 , 73

T

Tachard garden (Pierre-Émile Legrain), 22 , 22 , 24 , 110

Taoism, 21

Taylor, Paul, 118 , 175n18

Telesis, 47 , 48

Tomorrow a New World (Paul Conkin), 140

Tugwell, Rexford, 117

Tunnard, Christopher, 17 , 18 , 27 , 108 , 100n31;

on style, 17

V

Van der Kar, Joseph, 84

Van Doesburg, Theo, 27

Vaughan, Adele, 11 , 99n18

Vaughan, H. Leland "Punk," 4 , 5 , 11 , 99

Violich, Francis, 5 , 14 , 47

W

Williams, Arline (Eckbo), 14 , 14 , 99n22

Williams, Edward, 14 , 48 , 55 , 102n74 . See also Eckbo, Royston and Williams

Wonderland Park. See Eckbo, Garrett, community planning

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 21 , 44 , 57

Wright, Henry, 38

Wurster, William, 6 , 48 , 106 , 143

 

Preferred Citation: Treib, Marc, and Dorothée Imbert. Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for Living. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6g50073x/