Geoffrey Jellicoe

Geoffrey Jellicoe Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe Order of the British Empire CBE Royal Academy of Arts RA Victoria Medal of Honour VMH (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, Urban planner town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, landscape and garden historian, author, and lecturer at the University of Greenwich. He served from 1939 to 1949 as president of the Landscape Institute (LI) and from 1948 to 1954 as president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). Jellicoe was appointed in 1961 Order of the British Empire Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and in 1979 Knight Bachelor (KB). He was elected in 1991 a Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academician (RA) and was awarded in 1994 the Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH). Quotes The Studies of a Landscape Designer Over 80 Years (1993) At the Architectural Association School of Architecture Architectural Association you were, of course, first taught to draw. You experienced the pleasure of the drawing board, T-square, the set square, cartridge and tracing paper, and how to slice off enough of the latter without losing the lot. You were taught about the right pencil and how to rub down India ink Indian ink; and how to rub out. The Studies of a Landscape Designer Over 80 Years 9781870673129 Vol. 1 Garden Art Press 1993 9781870673044 https://books.google.com/books?id=Hl4lAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=t-square 12 (226 pages) The Italians who crossed the Alps by invitation brought with them a technical scenic ability, the architects being as well equipped as the Stagecraft theatrical designers themselves. Of the former, Domenico Martinelli was probably the greatest. He was a native of Lucca, made his name in Rome, and attracted the attention of von Liechtenstein, for whom he built Stadtpalais Liechtenstein both palaces. He appears to have carried out little garden design, but his influence on detail was profound. ... Another architect was Donato Felice d'Allio, who built the Salesian Nunnery and altered the Klosterneuburg Abbey monastery of Klosterneuburg. Both are as well designed as anything in Austria. Of the scenic designers the Galli da Bibiena family Bibiena family working in Bavaria were the most famous. In Vienna Ludovico Ottavio Burnacini L. O. Burnacini designed theatrical scenery, the monument in the Graben, Vienna Graben, and the Imperial palace of Favorita (now the Theresian Academy). Of architectural draughtsmen the best was Andrea Pozzo. In the train of the Italians came the craftsmen, men who set a standard of technique as high as at any time. p. 169; 1st part of quote; last part of quote Quotes about Geofffrey Jellicoe Away from her prison work, Lady Anne Tree Tree divided her time between London and Dorset, where she and her husband raised two adopted daughters, Isabella and Esther, at their home, Shute House, Donhead St Mary Shute House, near Shaftesbury. There, they commissioned a celebrated water garden from Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe in 1969, which many consider his finest work. Peter Stanford, Obituary: Lady Anne Tree. Social reformer who founded Fine Cell Work, giving prisoners money and self-worth The Guardian 20 August 2010 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/aug/20/lady-anne-tree-obituary Geoffrey Jellicoe was one of the century's greatest landscape architects. His contribution to landscape design — a discipline he credited above building design as the "Mother of all Arts" — has been described as equal to that of one of his great heroes, the 18th-century gardener Capability Brown.Among Jellicoe's triumphs are the grounds of Royal Lodge at Windsor Great Park Windsor, Sandringham House#Gardens Sandringham in Norfolk, Sutton Place, Surrey Sutton Place near Guildford, public gardens at Hemel Hempstead and the Runnymede#John F. Kennedy Memorial Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede, together with many small private commissions. Fay Sweet, Obituary: Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe 18 July 1996 The Independent https://www.the-independent.com/incoming/obituary-sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-5607830.html External links Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe gardenvisit.com https://www.gardenvisit.com/biography/sir_geoffrey_jellicoe Nic Wilson, Sir nicwilson.co.uk May 2018 https://nicwilson.co.uk/2018/05/05/sir-geoffrey-jellicoe-the-landscape-arts-and-the-mind/ Category:1900 births Category:1996 deaths Category:Architects from England Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Designers from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:People from London