Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe

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Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe (born October 8, 1900 in London , † July 17, 1996 in Seaton , Devon ) was a British landscape architect and town planner . He implemented a large number of garden design and urban planning projects. He wrote basic writings on the subject and campaigned in numerous organizations for landscape planning issues. Jellicoe, who has received many awards, is one of the internationally best-known landscape architects of the 20th century and is considered the leading exponent of landscape design (concept of designed landscape).

Life

Jellicoe was the younger son of George Edward Jellicoe, a publishing manager, and his wife Florence Waterson (née Waylett), a painter. After his parents separated, fourteen-year-old Jellicoe lived with his mother. He attended Cheltenham College as a boarding school student. From 1919 to 1923 he studied architecture in Bloomsbury (London) at the Architectural Association School ; after graduation he was a student at the British School in Rome. A scholarship allowed him to travel to Italy with John Chiene Shepherd (1896–1988); they researched and drew ancient gardens of the Renaissance and published their studies in a book in 1925.

After initially working with Shepherd, Jellicoe founded his own planning office in London ( Bloomsbury Square , 1931). In 1929 he founded the Institute of Landscape Architects (later Landscape Institute ). He taught at the Architectural Association from 1929 to 1934, which he also headed from 1939 to 1942. Prominent private clients made it possible for him to carry out his landscaping on a generous basis, and between 1935 and 1939 he also worked with Russell Page (1906–1985).

In 1936 he married Ursula Pares , who became his closest collaborator as Susan Jellicoe. During the Second World War he campaigned for the immediate repair of damage caused by bomb hits. In 1948 he organized a conference in Cambridge , the result of which was the establishment of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (International Association of Landscape Architects ) and which became the world association (IFLA). In memory of its co-founder, this association has been awarding the Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award as the highest honor to landscape architects for an outstanding life's work since 2004 .

From 1954 Jellicoe ran his office together with Francis Coleridge . In 1973 he ended the collaboration and went into professional retirement; however, he still accepted selected assignments. Influenced by Frederick Gibberd (1908–1984), Jellicoe began collecting contemporary paintings in the 1960s; From 1954 to 1968 he was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission and from 1967 to 1974 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery .

Jellicoe received numerous honors (accolade 1979) from the British, American and Australian professional associations of landscape architects (gold medals 1981, 1985, 1990) and the Royal Horticultural Society (Victoria Medal of Honor 1995).

Jellicoe died of heart failure in 1996 . He was in the Golders Green Crematorium in London cremated , where his ashes is located.

JFK Memorial designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe

Projects (selection)

Written work

  • Italian gardens of the Renaissance (1925; with JC Shepherd, new ed. 1986)
  • Gardens and design (1927)
  • Baroque gardens of Austria (1931)
  • Studies in landscape design , 3 parts (1959, 1966, 1970)
  • Motopia (1961)
  • The use of water in landscape architecture (1971; with Susan Jellicoe)
  • The landscape of man (1975; with Susan Jellicoe, revised 1987, 1991; German as Die Geschichte der Landschaft , 1988)
  • The Guelph lectures on landscape design (1983)
  • The Moody historical gardens (1989)
  • The landscape of civilization (1989)
  • Writings , Volume 1 (1993)

literature

  • Who's who 1996. An annual biographical dictionary. 148th year. Adam & Charles Black, London 1996, ISBN 0-7136-4255-6 ; P. 1012 column 1.
  • Michael Spens: Jellicoe Geoffrey (Alan). In: Jane Turner (Ed.): The dictionary of art. Volume 17. Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-88-4446-00-0 , p. 473.
  • Hal Moggridge: Jellicoe. In: HCG Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford dictionary of national biography. From the earliest times to the year 2000. Volume 29. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2004, ISBN 0-19-861379-2 , pp. 921-924.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IFLA Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award
personal data
SURNAME Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British garden designer, architect and town planner
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH London (Chelsea)
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1996
Place of death Seaton , Devon