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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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Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf became the leading figure in the "New Perennial" planting movement, a naturalistic gardening style emphasizing ornamental grasses and perennial plants selected for their structural form and seasonal change, including their appearance after flowering and through winter, rather than being valued purely for peak bloom color. Oudolf co-designed the planting for New York City's High Line elevated park, which opened in sections beginning in 2009, and the project's naturalistic, meadow-like plantings running through a repurposed elevated freight rail line became one of the most globally influential urban landscape design projects of the early 21st century. His design work extended internationally to projects including Chicago's Lurie Garden and the Vlinderhof garden in the Netherlands, and Oudolf's planting philosophy specifically emphasizes designing for a garden's appearance across all four seasons rather than prioritizing a single peak flowering period. Piet Oudolf's combination of his foundational role in the New Perennial planting movement and his globally influential High Line planting design has made him one of the most significant landscape designers of the contemporary era.
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