Celebrating National Landscape Architecture Month with 3 Landscapes

No joke, it is National Landscape Architecture Month. To celebrate, I thought we could take a break and look back at a few interesting answers from past years. For those that don't know the background on this, people used to play parlor games, today we frequently ask our visitors this question...
Q: What are the three greatest examples of landscape architecture that you have ever visited?

Harvard Professor and author John Stilgoe gave us these three

• Mt. Auburn Cemetery
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• The 1930s National Park Entrances

Award-winning landscape architect, Gary Hilderbrand

• Villa Lante
• Courances
• The City of Rome

You are welcome to ask whether it is fair to count the City of Rome as an example of landscape architecture.  But you are also welcome to ask why you think your answer to that is better than Gary Hildebrand's.

Designer of the Great Park of Orange County, Ken Smith offered these

• Vaux le Vicomte by Le Notre
• Daitokuji
  
• Worlitz

As you look back at both old and new lists, it is interesting to look back and see just how many people have listed Central Park in their list. While you are a tit, you could look through the Places and Spaces map for some of the 3 landscapes answers.

3 Landscapes: Tim Baird

Parc Clichy B'atignolles - New park in Paris with galvanized steel channels
Prospect Park
Crissy Field

3 Landscapes: Gale Fulton

RheinPark Duisburg (mapped)

Forest Park in St Louis

Court Square Press Courtyard


For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Nathan Heavers

Fort Tryon Park
The Acropolis
Mt. Adams

For background, go here: http://tulloch.rutgers.edu/candidates.html

3 Landscapes: RU Alums

Brian Clemson RULA'87

• Central Park
• Denali and other preserved landscapes of Alaska
• High Line

Ilonka Angelet RULA'73

• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Historic Waterfront in Charleston
• Biltmore Estate

3 Landscapes: Laura Lawson

Sea Ranch
White Sands
Central Park

3 Landscapes : Bladev Lamba

Villa D'Este
Versailles
Stourhead

For background see our longer list of 3 Landscapes and rules.

3 Landscapes: Elijah Huge

High Line
Some of noguchi's gardens - proposal for UN Playground
Hambroich outside Essen, Germany (mapped)

3 Landscapes: Kate John-Alder

From our newest alumni of the year:
Vaux le Vicomte (Although Seaux is great)
Oakland Museum
Cabin on a lake in Maine (typ.)

3 Landscapes: Laurie Olin

Central Park
Rousham or Stourhead
Villa Lante

3 Landscapes: Eric Sanderson

Arches National Park
The Red Ribbon - Tanghe River Park
The High Line

For background, go here: http://tulloch.rutgers.edu/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Steve Martino

Cosanti by Paolo Soleri
Taliesin West by Frank Lloyd Wright
Stowe by many including Kent and Brown

3 Landscapes: Stu Appel

Piazza San Marco, Venice
Villa Montefiore in Tuscany
Yosemite Park


For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: John Hasse

Central Park
Fairmount Park
Parc Guell


For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Leor Lovinger

• Storm King - especially the Andy Goldsworthy Wall
• Opus 40
• Holocaust Memorial To The Community Of Vilna At The Valley Of The Communities

For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Kurt Culbertson

The 3 Landscapes is back, too.

Without any warning Kurt Culbertson came up with three pretty easy.

Paley Park by NJ's Zion and Breen
Kimble Art Museum in Ft Worth
Yellowstone

For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Delafosse and Shadel

Ariane Delafosse
Washington DC
Boboli Gardens
Leonard Buck Gardens

Bill Shadel
The campus of Brown University
Blenheim Palace (a World Heritage Site)
Altstadt in Konstanz

For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Doug Blonsky

We asked Doug Blonsky to name his 3 favorite examples of landscape architecture that he has ever visited:

Central Park
Golden Gate Park
Great Park of OC (still under construction, but he is on the advisory council)

3 Landscapes: Brand and Miller

Stan Brand

• Bahai Terraces of thee Shrine of the Báb
• Central Park
• Warinanco Park in Elizabeth, NJ

Ryan Miller

• J. Paul Getty Center
• Berchtesgaden in Southern Germany
• Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias in Valencia, Spain

For background, go here: http://hahawall.rutgers.edu/tulloch/Candidates.html

3 Landscapes: Kathy Poole

During a previous visit, Kathy Poole played the 3 Landscapes game:
Gainesway Farm
Woodland Cemetery
Miller Garden