Exhibition Opening: The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley
The Center for Architecture in New York City will host an exhibition opening for the award-winning exhibition on Thursday, March 26 from 6-8pm.
Dan Kiley (1912-2004) ranks as perhaps the most important and influential Modernist landscape architect of the 20th century. During his extensive career, he worked with equally significant architects, including Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn and I.M. Pei, to create internationally acknowledged design icons. The exhibition features forty-five newly commissioned photographs by award-winning photographers that chronicle 27 of Kiley’s more than 1,000 public and private projects worldwide, among them: the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller University, both in New York; Kenjockety, the country home of the internationally famous NY-based sculptor Joel Shapiro and the artist Ellen Phelan; the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, MA (a collaboration with I. M. Pei); the Miller House and Garden in Columbus, IN (a collaboration with Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche and Alexander Girard), considered his residential masterpiece; the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (a collaboration with Eero Saarinen and site of the Gateway Arch); L’Esplanade du Général de Gaulle, La Défense, Paris, FR; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Art Institute of Chicago, South Garden, Chicago, IL; and his final residential commission, Patterns, created for former Governor and Mrs. Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV, among others.