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Ruth Shellhorn (Paperback)
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Ruth Shellhorn (Paperback)
Series: Masters of Modern Landscape Design Ser.
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In a career spanning nearly sixty years, Ruth Shellhorn (1909-2006)
helped shape Southern California's iconic modernist aesthetic. This
is the first full-length treatment of Shellhorn, who created close
to four hundred landscape designs, collaborated with some of the
region's most celebrated architects, and left her mark on a wide
array of places, including college campuses and Disneyland's Main
Street. Kelly Comras tells the story of Shellhorn's life and career
before focusing on twelve projects that explore her approach to
design and aesthetic philosophy in greater detail. The book's
project studies include designs for Bullock's department stores and
Fashion Square shopping centers; school campuses, including a
multiyear master plan for the University of California at
Riverside; a major Los Angeles County coastal planning project; the
western headquarters for Prudential Insurance; residential estates
and gardens; and her collaboration on the original plan for
Disneyland. Shellhorn received formal training at Oregon State and
Cornell Universities and was influenced by such contemporaries as
Florence Yoch, Beatrix Farrand, Welton Becket, and Ralph Dalton
Cornell. As president of the Southern California chapter of ASLA,
she became a champion of her profession, working tirelessly to
achieve state licensure for landscape architects. In her own
practice, she collaborated closely with architects to address
landscape concerns at the earliest stages of building design,
retained long-term control over the maintenance of completed
projects, and considered the importance of the region's natural
environment at a time of intense development throughout Southern
California. Shellhorn set a standard of creativity, productivity,
and respect for the native landscape that defused gender
stereotypes-and earned her the admiration of landscape designers
then and now.
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