• He received the Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects (1951), The Gold Medal of the American Society of Landscape Architects (1976), The Gold Medal of the New York Architectural League (1953), the Oakleigh Thorne Medal from the Garden Club of America (1969) and a Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978). • During his life he wrote two books: Gardens are for பைடு நூலகம்eople (1955) and followed by Your Private World. Gardens Are For People.
By John Thomas D. Church
WORDS
• • • • • • • • John Thomas D. Church: 托马斯· 丘奇 dominant ：有统治权的, 占优势的, 支配的 subordinate ：次要的, 从属的, 下级的 clutter ：杂乱；喧闹；拥挤而杂乱的一群 ornament ：装饰, 修饰，装饰物 Terrace：阶地 simplicity ：简单, 简易, 朴素, 直率 envy ：羡慕, 嫉妒
• convention：大会, 协定, 习俗, 惯例
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informal ：非正式的, 不拘礼节[形式]的, 简略的 horticultural ：园艺的 structurally ：在结构上 visually ：在视觉上地,外表上，表面上 aesthetic ：美学的, 审美的, 有审美感的 Peace and ease ：安静和悠闲 Spaciousness:宽阔,宽敞 asymmetric :不均匀的, 不对称的 layout :规划, 设计,布置,版面安排 Rhythm:节奏, 韵律
• Church used 4 basic principle for his designs: " Unity, which is the consideration of the schemes as a whole, both house and garden; function, which is the relation of the practical service areas to the needs of the household and the relation of the decorative areas to the desires and pleasure of those who use it; simplicity, upon which may rest both the economic and aesthetic success of the layout; and scale, which gives us a pleasant relation of parts to one another.“
• Thomas Church was born in 1902 in California. He retired in 1977 and died in 1978. • Church was educated in the 1920's at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in Europe on a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. The timing coincided with a rapidly changing social context in California and a revolution in art and architecture on an international scale.
Design Style
• "By the 1950's Church had become one of the leading landscape architects in the United States, working on large commercial and institutional projects with eminent architects of the modern movement, including Eera Saarinen and Edward Durell Stone. But the bulk of his practice was on a domestic scale and it was on garden design that his reputation was based.“ • Church's designs focused on the increasing use of small gardens and the need to reduce maintenance while providing privacy and beauty. He increased the use of hard cover surfaces and groundcover plantings. He used screens such as rows of trees to separate areas and small hills to create "rooms" or garden. During his time the central axis of a garden was abandoned for a multiplicity of view points.
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UNIT THREE
Theory of Landscape Architecture
WANG XIN Oct. 2006
The Planned Experience
By John Ormsbee Simonds (1913–2005)
Gardens are for the People