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Dan Kiley
Dan Kiley has influenced generations of landscape designers, and his work has heightened our awareness of our surroundings through his lifelong tenet that the actions of people are integral to nature and its course. Despite his international renown, no comprehensive monograph has ever been published on Dan Kiley. Produced in close collaboration with the architect, this is the definitive book on the man and his oeuvre, from early projects to his most recent works.
Daniel Urban Kiley
Generally considered to be America's foremost postwar landscape architect, Daniel Urban Kiley's earlier work is not well known. This book focuses on several of his more creative projects from the 1940s and 1950s, including more elaborate alternate plans.
Dan Kiley in His Own Words
American landscape architect, Dan Kiley, has transformed the landscapes of private houses, public institutions and vast urban spaces into magnificent places of natural beauty. Produced with the collaboration of Dan Kiley himself, this monograph considers the man and his oeuvre. Kiley sets out his working practices in an introduction that draws together decades of experience and a deep knowledge of nature. At the heart of the book are his most significant projects, grouped by the themes that have shaped his career. Each project features numerous photographs and plans, special sketches by Kiley, and accompanying texts. A reference section with an illustrated chronology and bibliography round off the book.
Dan Kiley Landscapes
Includes The work of Dan Kiley: a dialogue on design theory, a transcript of a symposium held 1982 at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
Southern Comfort
The Garden District epitomizes the beauty and mystery of New Orleans; the stately residences and gardens of this historic area are known worldwide for their graciousness and ease. The financial prosperity of nineteenth-century New Orleans, a center of commerce and culture, enabled wealthy newcomers with similar values and tastes to construct a neighborhood of opulent homes, creating a suburb with a unified style. This neighborhood-the Garden District-was situated along one of the first street railway lines in the country, and became one of the earliest commuter suburbs. It remains an enduring achievement of architectural and residential planning. Southern Comfort details the magnificent arch...
Living Together, Feeling Alone
Dr. Dan Kiley is a psychologist and the bestsellig author of The Peter Pan Syndrome, The Wendy Dilemma, and What to Do When He Won't Change.
James Rose
The first biography of this important landscape architect, James Rose examines the work of one of the most radical figures in the history of mid-century modernist American landscape design. An artist who explored his profession with words and built works, Rose fearlessly critiqued the developing patterns of land use he witnessed during a period of rapid suburban development. The alternatives he offered in his designs for hundreds of gardens were based on innovative and iconoclastic environmental and philosophic principles, some of which have become mainstream today. A classmate of Garrett Eckbo and Dan Kiley at Harvard, Rose was expelled in 1937 for refusing to design landscapes in the Beaux...
Modern Landscape Architecture
Twenty-two essays that provide a forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline These twenty-two essays provide a rich forum for assessing the tenets, accomplishments, and limits of modernism in landscape architecture and for formulating ideas about possible directions for the future of the discipline. During the 1930s Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and JamesRose began to integrate modernist architectural ideas into their work and to design a landscape more in accord with the life and sensibilities of their time. Together with Thomas Church, whose gardens provide...
The Wendy Dilemma
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