Garrett Eckbo was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book Landscape for Living.
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17 Facts About Garrett Eckbo
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Garrett Eckbo was born in Cooperstown, New York to Axel Eckbo, a businessman, and Theodora Munn Eckbo.
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Garrett Eckbo was influenced by the works of several abstract painters, including Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Kasimir Malevich.
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Garrett Eckbo would convey a sense of movement in his designs by the layering and massing of plants as inspired by the artists' paintings.
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Garrett Eckbo designed camps for the migrant agricultural workers in California's Central Valley.
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Garrett Eckbo applied his modernist ideas to these camps attempting to improve the workers living environments.
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Mr Garrett Eckbo designed site plans for 50 such settlements on the West Coast.
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Mr Garrett Eckbo had a leading hand in planning what many scholars consider the postwar period's finest subdivision scheme, the 256-acre Ladera Housing Cooperative near Palo Alto.
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In 1940 Garrett Eckbo joined with his brother–in-law, Edward Williams to form the firm Garrett Eckbo and Williams.
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In 1946 Garrett Eckbo resettled in Los Angeles to take advantage of its growing opportunities for private practice.
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In 1956, the Aluminum Company of America asked Garrett Eckbo to create a garden containing large amounts of aluminum, for the company's publicity purposes.
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Garrett Eckbo received numerous awards, including UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design Distinguished Alumnus of 1998, the American Society of Landscape Architects Medal of Honor in 1975, the Architectural League of New York's gold medal in 1950 and the American Institute of Architect's merit award in 1953.
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Linda Jewell, professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where Garrett Eckbo taught said Garrett Eckbo's books always contained numerous illustrations of his observations and theoretical positions.
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Garrett Eckbo was survived by his wife, Arline, of Oakland; daughters Marilyn Kweskin and Alison Peper of Los Angeles; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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Garrett Eckbo taught at the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California from 1948 to 1956.
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Garrett Eckbo was the chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture at UC Berkeley from 1963 to 1969.
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At the request of UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies, Garrett Eckbo wrote "Public Landscape, " ranking architectural and planning successes and failures from the public arena.
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