The David R. Coffin 2008 - 2010 Publication Grant Recipients
The David R. Coffin Publication Grant is awarded annually to authors or publishers of books-in-progress on a landscape subject. The purpose of this grant is to reward contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies. The grant recipients are listed in alphabetical order and categorized by year.
David Contasta and Carol Franklin
Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City; Philadelphia's Wissahickon Valley 1620-2020
St. Josephâs University Press
Jack Williams
Easy Off, Easy On: Emerging Landscapes
University of Virginia Press
Caren Yglesias
The Complete House and Grounds: Learning from Andrew Jackson Downing's Domestic Architecture
The Center for American Places at Columbia College, Chicago
Lawrence Halprin
A Life Spent Changing Places: An Autobiography
University of Pennsylvania Press
This book is an autobiography by one of the world’s leading landscape architects, environmental planners, and urban design innovators.
John Dixon Hunt
The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception
Birkhäuser
This book is a history of the Venetian garden as a representation of the city’s unique cultural and environmental conditions.
Judith K. Major
The Evolution of a Landscape Critic: Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
University of Virginia Press
This book is the first full-length study of the artist, architect, critic, historian, and journalist Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer’s writings on landscape gardening.
Janet Mendelsohn and Christopher Wilson, Editors
My Kind of American Landscape: J. B. Jackson Speaks
Center for American Places
This publication is made up of a DVD documentary, a book of essays, and a portfolio of images. It provides a composite portrait of the teachings, writings, drawings, and photographs of the cultural geographer John Brinckerhoff Jackson.
Dorothée Imbert
Between Garden and City: Landscape Modernism and Jean Canneel-Claes
University of Pittsburgh Press
This book-in-progress chronicles the work and life of Belgian landscape architect Jean Canneel-Claes (1909-1989), a somewhat overlooked but significant figure for the early period of European modernism. Imbert restores Canneel-Claes as a major figure in the transformation of landscape architecture into a modern discipline. She presents his own transition from garden design to urban planning as exemplifying the development of the field itself. In tracing the trajectory of his work, she opens new possibilities for considering modernism’s approach to gardens and nature, as well as landscape design’s relationship to modern architecture and urban design.
Thaisa Way
Unbounded Practices: Women, Landscape Architecture, and Early Twentieth Century Design
University of Virginia Press
This book-in-progress describes landscape design in the United States starting in 1893, the year of Olmsted’s landscape for the Chicago World’s Fair and the publication of Marianna Van Renssalaer’s book, Art out of Doors. Both achievements were significant landmarks in the establishment of the practice as a profession. Two constellations of women frame the narrative, the first composed of six successful women (Beatrix Jones Farrand, Marian Cruger Coffin, Annette Hoyt Flanders, Ellen Biddle Shipman, Martha Brookes Hutcheson, and Marjorie Sewell Cautley) whose practices are considered within the context of a second constellation embracing hundreds of women who practiced across the nation during the early twentieth century. The narrative draws to a temporal close in mid-century when the practice and profession moved into a new phase of growth and maturation. Way’s narrative weaves these stories together: the history of the profession and the women who helped shape it.