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Acknowledgments
Peter Walker, Melanie Louise Simo
Description: Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape
Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape
Acknowledgments
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Peter Walker, Melanie Louise Simo
PublisherMIT Press
Copyright© 1994 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Acknowledgments
It is with great pleasure that we acknowledge the assistance, encouragement, friendly criticism, and wise suggestions of many individuals. It is not possible, here, to mention everyone by name, particularly the many students, teachers, and colleagues who have inevitably influenced us in our quest and in our perceptions. To all we remain indebted.
This book was supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Melanie Simo received the grant, a U.S.A. Fellowship, for travel, research, and writing. This book was also supported in part by the office of Peter Walker and Partners, which became known as Peter Walker William Johnson and Partners during the later stages of our efforts. We wish to thank particularly William Johnson, Douglas Findlay, Tony Sinkosky, Thomas Leader, Cathy Blake, David Walker, Jane Williamson, and David Meyers for their financial support and patience with the authors.
The authors have had varying degrees of acquaintance with the individuals whose contributions to the field of landscape architecture form the subject of this book. With some, who are longtime colleagues, Peter Walker has shared ideas and enthusiasms as well as differences of opinion. Melanie Simo would like to thank several of these individuals for interviews and conversations, in particular, Garrett Eckbo, Stuart O. Dawson, Kenneth DeMay, Richard Haag, Lawrence Halprin, Charles W. Harris, William Johnson, Dan Kiley, Ian McHarg, Kalvin Platt, Robert Royston, Hideo Sasaki, and Carl Steinitz.
The authors are grateful to Kalvin Platt for allowing some portions of Melanie Simo’s unpublished history of The SWA Group to be revised for inclusion in this book and to W. George Waters for allowing some portions of Melanie Simo’s articles on Garrett Eckbo and Hideo Sasaki, previously published in Pacific Horticulture, to be revised for inclusion in this book.
At our invitation, the following individuals have read all, or parts of, this book: Charles E. Beveridge, Walter L. Creese, Arline Williams Eckbo, Garrett Eckbo, Lawrence Halprin, Charles W. Harris, Peter L. Hornbeck, Dan Kiley, Ian McHarg, William C. Muchow, Robert Royston, Hideo Sasaki, Carl Steinitz, and John Webb. We have benefited from their observations and corrections; for any remaining imperfections, we are responsible.
We are grateful to the photographers—both those known and credited at the end of this book, and those unknown—whose perceptions of certain landscapes and individuals have helped us to tell our story.
We thank the principals of firms who provided photographs and color transparencies from their own collections, and we thank Peter and Paul Cirincione, who consistently provided fine transitions from color transparencies to black and white photographs. Others who assisted us in locating and acquiring images include William Howard Adams, Gerald Campbell, Dixi Carrillo, Pam Palmer, Elizabeth Roberts Church, Mick Cochran, Susan Duca, Arline Williams Eckbo, Grace Hall, Amy Hau, Michael Laurie, George Ramirez, Michael Van Valkenburgh, and Stuart Wrede. We thank the staffs of museums, foundations, and libraries, particularly Hinda Sklar, Suzanne Smyrl, and Martha Mahard, of the Frances Loeb Library, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. We also appreciate the genial and constant assistance of Lisa Ganucheau, who coordinated innumerable details of text and image, maintaining communication between the authors, particularly when they were separated by a continent and an ocean.
We thank those at The MIT Press, in particular, Roger Conover, for underscoring some suggestions of the outside readers and deciding, in the end, to proceed; Beverly Miller and Sandra Minkkinen, for their careful, sensitive treatment of the typescript; Mimi Ahmed, for an elegant design of the book; and Ann Sochi, for her gracious assistance on many occasions.
Finally, we are grateful to our dear families, who suffered our preoccupation, our inattention, our anxieties, and our absences: Martha and Brian, and the boys, Chris, Peter, David, Jacob, and Josie.
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