Geoffrey Jellicoe

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Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900-1996) was an English landscape architect, garden designer, Architect and author.

Jellicoe was born in Chelsea. He went to study at the Architectural Association in London in 1919 and won a Rome scholarship in 1923 which enabled him to write his first book on Italian Gardens of the Renaissance with Jock Shepherd. In 1929 he became a founder member of the Institute of Landscape Architects and from 1939-49 he was the president. In 1948 he became the founding president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). From 1954-68 he was a member of Royal Fine Art Commission and from 1967-74 a Trustee of Tate Gallery. He died in 1996, the best-known English landscape architect of his generation.

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[edit] Design projects

  • 1934-36 Caveman Restaurant
  • 1934 -39 Ditchley Park
  • 1947 Plan for Hemel Hempstead
  • 1956 Harvey's Store, Guildford
  • 1957-9 Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead
  • 1964-65 Kennedy Memorial
  • 1970-90 Shute House
  • 1979-89 Hartwell House Garden
  • 1980-86 Sutton Place
  • 1984 Moody Gardens

[edit] Books and other publications by Geoffrey Jellicoe

A Landscape plan for Sark. This report was presented to an informal meeting of the members of the 1967 Baroque Gardens of Austria. 1932

Blue Circle Cement Hope Works Derbyshire : [1980?]

Garden Decoration & Ornament for Smaller Houses. 1936

Gardens of Europe. 1937

Gardens & design, Gardens of Europe. 1995.

Vol.3, Studies in landscape design. 1996.

The Guelph lectures on landscape design. 1983.

The landscape of civilisation : 1989.

The landscape of man : 1975.

Motopia: a study in the evolution of urban landscape. 1961

The Oxford companion to gardens 1986.

Report accompanying an Outline Plan for Guildford prepared for the Municipal Borough Council. 1945

The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, etc. 1933

Studies in Landscape Design. 1960

The studies of a landscape designer over 80 years c1993.


[edit] References

Spens, Michael. The complete landscape designs and gardens of Geoffrey Jellicoe c1994

Spens, Michael. Gardens of the mind c1992.

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