Daniel Urban Kiley was an American landscape architect, who worked in the style of modern architecture.
15 Facts About Dan Kiley
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Dan Kiley was born in the neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston, where his father was a construction manager.
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From 1936 to 1938, Dan Kiley was a special student in the design program at Harvard University, now the Graduate School of Design, while continuing work with Manning.
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Dan Kiley worked briefly for the National Park Service in Concord, New Hampshire, and later the United States Housing Authority, where he met architect Louis Kahn.
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On Kahn's advice, Dan Kiley left the authority in 1940 to become a licensed practicing architect.
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From 1943 to 1945, Dan Kiley served in the United States Army as Captain in the Presentation Branch of the Office of Strategic Services, becoming its director after architect Eero Saarinen stepped down.
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Dan Kiley reestablished his practice in Franconia, New Hampshire, and later moved to Charlotte, Vermont.
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In 1947, in collaboration with Saarinen, Dan Kiley entered and won the competition to design the Gateway Arch National Park, a high-profile project that launched his career.
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In 2013, The Cultural Landscape Foundation organized a traveling exhibition titled The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley, which featured over forty newly commissioned photographs of Kiley's projects.
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The Harvard University Graduate School of Design has an endowed fellowship in his name: the Daniel Urban Kiley Teaching Fellowship in Landscape Architecture.
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The location of the Dan Kiley Gardens is in the Downtown Tampa area.
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Dan Kiley Gardens is currently under reconstruction and partnered with members and residents of Downtown Tampa in an effort to improve its current state.
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Dan Kiley believed that humans were a part of nature, rather than being separate from it.
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Dan Kiley's designs overstepped their boundaries rather than ending elements neatly on a suggested edge.
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Dan Kiley called this approach, slippage, or an extension beyond the implied boundary, creating ambiguous relationships in the landscape.