Dan Kiley

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Dan Kiley (actually Daniel Urban Kiley ; born September 2, 1912 in Boston , † February 21, 2004 in Montpelier ) was an American landscape architect and one of the founders of the " Harvard Revolution ".

biography

Dan Kiley began a four-year apprenticeship in 1932 with the landscape architect Warren Henry Manning (1860-1938). He then studied design at Harvard University . He attended some of Walter Gropius ' seminars when he was a professor at the Graduate School of Design . Among his fellow students were Garrett Eckbo and James Rose , who would later become the most influential landscape architects of the 20th century. Two years later, Kiley dropped out of college. He worked briefly for the National Park Service in Concord , New Hampshire , and later for the United States Housing Authority under the architect Louis Isidore Kahn (1901–1974).

In 1942 he married Anne Lathrop Sturges and opened an office in Franconia , New Hampshire . From 1943 to 1945 Kiley served in the United States Army and was a member of the United Nations War Crimes Commission , which was established for the Nuremberg Trials . In France , he visited the gardens of André Le Nôtre in Chantilly , Versailles and Vaux-le-Vicomte - their geometric layout was incorporated into his later work ( Classic Modern Style ). Louis Kahn brought Kiley together with the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen , with whom he designed the Miller House in Columbus in the 1950s .

Landscape architecture

Kiley was strongly influenced by the style of Mies van der Rohe , in particular by his Barcelona Pavilion from 1929. He combined the style of van der Rohe with the classic style of André le Notre, his designs are characterized by strict grid lines. Strictly trimmed hedges and avenues dominate the design. However, he also tried to integrate the garden into the surrounding landscape

Awards

literature

  • Jane Amidon: Landscape Design - New Concepts in Open Space Design. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart and Munich 2001, ISBN 3-421-03295-5 .
  • William S. Saunders: Daniel Urban Kiley - The Early Gardens. Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, ISBN 1-56898-148-1 .
  • Dan Kiley and Jane Amidon: Dan Kiley - The Complete Works of America's Master Landscape Architect. Bulfinch Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8212-2589-8 .

Web links

Commons : Dan Kiley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 1996. Paradise transformed. The private garden for the 21st century. New York, Monacelli Press, Jan.
  2. ↑ Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 1996. Paradise transformed. The private garden for the 21st century. New York, Monacelli Press, Jan.
  3. ↑ Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 1996. Paradise transformed. The private garden for the 21st century. New York, Monacelli Press, Jan.
  4. ↑ Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor 1996. Paradise transformed. The private garden for the 21st century. New York, Monacelli Press, 10f.
  5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "K" / Kiley, Daniel Urban NA 1990 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 29, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  6. ^ Members: Dan Kiley. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kiley, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kiley, Daniel Urban (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 2004
Place of death Montpelier