James van sweden biography of williams

          Study in the Netherlands after college was an opportunity to meet mentors, travel, and study urban design..

          James van Sweden, FASLA, the landscape architect and author who transformed the texture of American public spaces and gardens over four decades, died September 20 at his home in Washington, D.C., after a long illness.

          James van Sweden has been a leader in landscape architecture for more than 35 years.

        1. In this book James van Sweden challenges the reader to go beyond basic garden design and to consider garden creation as an art form voyage of discovery.
        2. Study in the Netherlands after college was an opportunity to meet mentors, travel, and study urban design.
        3. The Cultural Landscape Foundation Screens Oral History About Pioneering Landscape Architect James van Sweden at NYU's Cantor Film Center, March.
        4. James A. van Sweden was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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          Van Sweden and his partner, Wolfgang Oehme, founded their firm, Oehme, van Sweden & Associates, in Washington in With an evangelical zeal, and aided by Oehme’s expert horticulture, van Sweden unleashed an explosion of romantic naturalism in landscapes large and small, offering torrents of grasses and huge wildflowers as an alternative to perfunctory public plantings and lawns.

          Nationwide, and especially around Washington, he composed public gardens, parks, memorials, and campuses to be engrossing in all seasons, unbound in form and flush with colors before browning toward collapse and a startlingly rich afterlife.

          The firm’s many residential projects range in scale from sweeping meadows and marshy waterfronts to intimate woodland gardens and lush little