Marvels of Modernism: Related Pioneers

David Arbegast

David Arbegast, FASLA, earned a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Iowa State University in 1950 and his master’s in that subject from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.

Hunter Randolph

Hunter Randolph was born in Laredo, Texas, and attended Texas A&M University. In 1937, he moved to Puerto Rico with the U.S. Forest Service.

Hideo Sasaki

Born in Reedley, California, Sasaki studied landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, where he counted Stanley White amongst his influential teachers, and graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, then led by Walter Gropius, in 1948.

Leonard Schultze

Born in Chicago and educated at the City College of New York, architect Leonard Schultze worked 20 years with the firm of Warren & Wetmore, during which time he worked on New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.

John Staley

Staley practiced landscape architecture as John H. Staley & Associates beginning as early as 1939, when his firm produced the very useful reference Ornamental Plants of California.

Minoru Yamasaki

Minoru Yamasaki, FAIA, was born in Seattle, Washington, on December 1, 1912. He studied architecture at the University of Washington then moved east to complete his professional education at New York University.