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| x Hoichi Kurisu |
Hoichi Kurisu is a noted designer of Japanese gardens, active in the United States.
Kurisu studied landscape design and construction under Kenzo Ogata in Tokyo, Japan. He then was Landscape director for the Garden Society of Japan (Nihon Teien...
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| x Takeo Uesugi |
Takeo Uesugi (born in 1940 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kyoto University.
Uesugi's prominent works...
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| x Roger Turner |
Roger Turner is a British garden designer and writer of gardening-related non-fiction books. He trained as an architect, and now practises as a garden designer in Gloucestershire, England. He lectures widely on garden subjects, and is the author of...
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| x George London |
George London (1681 – 1714) was an English nurseryman and garden designer. He aspired to the baroque style and worked on the gardens at Hampton Court, Melbourne Hall and Wimpole Hall.
George London's birth date is not certain but it was probably...
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| x André Le Nôtre |
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André Le Nôtre (12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700) was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and...
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| x Filippo Juvarra |
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Filippo Juvarra, (March 7, 1678 - January 31, 1736) was an Italian architect and stage set designer.
Filippo Juvarra was an Italian Baroque architect working in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was born in Messina, Sicily, to a family of...
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| x Montague Russell Page |
Montague Russell Page (1906 – 1985) was a British landscape architect and garden designer.
Former partner of Geoffrey Jellicoe and author of The Education of a Gardener (1962). In this book he looks at the history of Islamic and Classical gardens....
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| x Humphry Repton |
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Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the...
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| x Charles Bridgeman |
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Charles Bridgeman (1690-1738) was an English garden designer in the onset of the naturalistic landscape style. Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues...
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| x Henry Hoare |
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Henry Hoare II (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer.
Educated at Westminster School, Henry Hoare dominated the Hoare family through his wealth and personal charisma. Henry was a partner for...
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| x Henry Wise |
Henry Wise (bapt. 4 September 1653 – 1738) was an English gardener, designer, and nurseryman. He was apprenticed to George London, working at Brompton Nursery, on the present site of the Royal Albert Hall and the museums of South Kensington, London....
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| x John Vanbrugh |
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Sir John Vanbrugh (his surname is pronounced Van-bruh) (24 January 1664? – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken...
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| x William Kent |
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William Kent (born in Bridlington, Yorkshire, c. 1685 – 12 April 1748) was an eminent English architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century.
Kent's career began as a sign and coach painter who was encouraged to...
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| x Capability Brown |
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Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest...
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| x Joseph Forsyth Johnson |
Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840 – July 17, 1906) was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin.
Johnson had a family background in horticulture. His maternal grandfather John Forsyth, a florist, was the son of William Forsyth, a...
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| x Joseph Paxton |
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Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing the The Crystal Palace.
Paxton was born in 1803, the seventh son of a farming family, at Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. Some references,...
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| x Hermann von Pückler-Muskau |
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Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (born as Count Pückler, from 1822 Prince) (30 October 1785 - 4 February 1871) was a German nobleman, who was an excellent artist in landscape gardening and wrote widely appreciated books, mostly...
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| x Harold Peto |
Harold Ainsworth Peto (11 July 1854 – 16 April 1933) was an English architect and garden designer.
Peto was the son of Sir Samuel Peto, 1st Baronet, of Somerleyton Hall. In 1876 he went into partnership with Ernest George and designed houses in...
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| x Ernst Cramer |
Ernst Cramer (December 7, 1898 (Zürich/ Switzerland) – September 7, 1980) (Rüschlikon/ Switzerland) was a Swiss landscape architect and one of the most renowned European garden architects after 1945, who had a strong influence on present-day...
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| x Ralph Hancock |
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Ralph Hancock (1893-1950) built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 30s and 40s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known - the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the Rockefeller Center in New York, the garden at Twyn-yr-Hydd...
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| x Geoffrey Jellicoe |
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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) was an English landscape architect, garden designer, Architect and author.
Jellicoe was born in Chelsea. He studied at the Architectural Association in London in 1919 and won a Rome Scholarship in 1923 which enabled...
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| x Peter Latz |
Peter Latz (born 1939) is a German landscape architect and a professor for landscape architecture at the Technical University of Munich.
Peter Latz was born in Darmstadt and grew up in the Saarland as the son of an architect. After graduating from...
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| x Thomas Hayton Mawson |
Thomas Hayton Mawson (Born 5 May 1861, Scorton, Lancashire; died 14 November 1933, Applegarth, Hest Bank, Lancaster, Lancashire age 72), better known as T.H. Mawson, was a British garden designer, landscape architect, and town planner.
Mawson left...
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| x Charles Jencks |
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Charles Jencks (born 1939) is an American architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of Modernism and Postmodernism were widely read in architectural circles and beyond. Born in Baltimore to a...
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