12- Dan Kiley- Fountain Place

 

I like this design, the equally spaced trees creating avenues from every entrance, though not walkable it looks so clear that you could walk on the surface. The light foliage allows a lot of light through and is balanced well with the dark paving with the trunks and the horizontal line breaking up the blocks of colour. The circles are the clearest shape defining the tree's boundary in the ground giving each tree a strong form with a defined base and a strong vertical line from the trunk.

Dan Kiley is an American landscape architect who uses geometry for design, he's an influential designer in the community. He started off doing an apprenticeship in landscape architecture, which took 4 years, with Warren H Manning. H believed geometry was essential to humans.

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‌The (2013). The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley | The Cultural Landscape Foundation. [online] Tclf.org. Available at: https://www.tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/kiley-legacy/introduction.html [Accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

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