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Dan Kiley
Dan Kiley became one of the most significant American modernist landscape architects of the 20th century, developing a distinctive style using strict geometric grids, allees of identically spaced trees, and formal reflecting pools that directly complemented the modernist architecture of the era he most frequently worked alongside. Kiley served on the design team for the Nuremberg trials courtroom after World War II, and his subsequent landscape architecture career included designing the grounds of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Ford Foundation Building's interior garden atrium in New York City. His geometric, architecturally disciplined approach represented a deliberate departure from the naturalistic English landscape tradition that had influenced much earlier American landscape design, instead directly drawing on formal French garden traditions reinterpreted through a modernist design sensibility. Dan Kiley's combination of his formal geometric modernist landscape style and his design work on significant American civic landmarks like the Gateway Arch grounds has made him one of the most influential American landscape architects of the modernist era.
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Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll designed more than 400 gardens across Britain, Europe, and the United States during her career, and she developed a distinctive approach to perennial flower border design built around careful color theory, arranging plants in deliberate graduated color progressions rather than simply mixing varieties together. Her long professional partnership with architect Edwin Lutyens, in which Jekyll designed gardens for numerous houses Lutyens had architecturally designed, became one of the most significant and enduring collaborations in the history of British garden and architectural design. Jekyll came to garden design relatively late in life after deteriorating eyesight forced her to abandon her earlier career as a painter and decorative artist, and she directly applied her painterly training in color theory to her subsequent garden design work. Gertrude Jekyll's combination of her painterly color-theory approach to perennial borders and her extensive collaborative partnership with Edwin Lutyens has made her one of the most influential garden designers in British landscape history.
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