Contemporary Landscape Design Collection

The Dumbarton Oaks Landscape Design Collection is a separate collection developed and managed by the Garden and Landscape Studies department, and meant as a complement to the existing collection of drawings by Beatrix Farrand in the House Collection. Drawn from the files kept by contemporary garden designers in their own offices, it comprises mainly sketches, drawings, plans, and images of their projects as well as significant written documents prepared for a particular project. It also comprises some general information about each of the twenty-two designers whose work is being collected.

Each designer in the collection has a dossier containing essential information about his or her history and writings and projects, as well as a dossier for each project represented in the collection. There are electronic images available for each of these projects.

At present, this collection is under development. Designers or scholars who wish for more information may contact Xin Wu, the Contemporary Landscape Design Collection and Asian Program Coordinator, at WuX@doaks.org.

Designers in the Contemporary Landscape Design Collection

Stig L. Andersson, Denmark | Diana Balmori, United States | Cheryl Barton, United States | Paolo Burgi, Switzerland | Andy Cao, United States | Fernando Chacel, Brazil | Claude Cormier, Canada | Erik Dhont, Belgium | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Great Britain | Richard Haag, United States | Ron Herman, United States | Patricia Johanson, United States | Lorna Jordan, United States | Bernard Lassus, France | Toru Mitani, Japan | Yoshio Nakamura, Japan | The New Arcadians, Great Britain | Yoji Sasaki, Japan | Mario Schjetnan, Mexico | Athena Tacha, United States | Michael Van Valkenburg, United States | Peter Walker, United States |