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            <title>An Italian Villa's Garden &amp; Modernism - Presentation at the Tiburon-Belvedere Library this week!</title>
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And now for something completely different . . . An Italian villa's garden!  

You may be asking why I would suddenly depart from mid-century modernism to talk about a garden that was started in the 1400s. Well, mid century modernism never would have happened without gardens like this one. Here are three reasons why I am dicussing this garden.First, I am going to be giving a slideshow presentation about the garden at Villa Gamberaia (outside of Florence, Italy) on Thursday, October 7th at 7:30... ]]> </description>
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            <title>Case Study: Eichler Landscaping - the Atrium &amp; Courtyard</title>
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This is a continuation of a previous blog, where I wrote about landscape ideas for an Eichler home in Marin. Last time, we focused on the front. And now, on to the courtyard!
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One the most important exterior parts of many mid-century modern house is the courtyard space. Not every home has a courtyard, of course, and some have atriums, which is generally an indoor space.
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 Wiki had this to say about courtyards:
&quot;Courtyards&mdash;private open spaces surrounded by walls... ]]> </description>
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            <title>Eichler House Landscape - A Case Study</title>
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Whenever people ask me, &quot;How do you figure out what to do?&quot;, my first response is, &quot;I don't really know, it's mostly intuitive at this point.&quot; But the reality is that there is a whole lot of theory, education, travel, exposure, reading and practice that goes into how any designer comes up with ideas of what to do with a property.


From my education - at LSU, in Baton Rouge - we were taught that the design comes from 3 places: first, the style of the home (no sense goin... ]]> </description>
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            <title>Heroes of Modern Landscape Design: Roberto Burle Marx</title>
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Robert Burle Marx holds a special place in the development of modernism in the field of landscape architecture. Often times in books - and in my professor's history courses - he was set apart from others of the same period. In Elizabeth Rogers' book, Landscape Design, she gives him his own sub-chapter: Roberto Burle Marx and the Garden as Abstract Art.


Wikipedia says:



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil combined the International Style and native Brazilian plants a... ]]> </description>
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            <title>Heroes of Modern Landscape Design</title>
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The first thing I thought about writing for this blog was a brief history of landscape design during the Mid-Century Modern period. Whenever I need to learn - or refresh my learning - about landscape design, I turn to Elizabeth Barlow Rogers' encyclopedic masterpiece, Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History. If it isn't in there, it hasn't happened yet! And even though her website says it took her ten years to write, I secretly think it must have taken twenty - this book weighs a... ]]> </description>
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