Jens Jensen

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Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes—a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.

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Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes—a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese draws on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects to present a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes.

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Ecumene

Robert Grese has written a most sympathetic appraisal of Jensen's life and work. It provides an indispensable guide to the projects he carried out, compiled from plans, photographs and other documents in various archives.

Landscape Architecture

Why, then, has Jensen continued to attract considerable attention? Robert Grese's book addresses this and other questions with clarity and intensity. Long in the making, this book was well worth the wait. It is a labor of love, and a product of profound intellect and insight... This volume reflects not only Grese's authoritative knowledge of Jensen's life and work but also stresses the many and valuable lessons that Jensen's legacy holds for us now and into the future.

Landscape Journal

While Grese clearly sees Jensen's work as an 'inspiration for a whole new generation of designers,' he also recognizes the potential for carrying Jensen's vision much further today... Grese's book is a superb study, thoroughly researched and well written. It is attractively designed and durably bound, with quality reproduction of photographs and plans... This is clearly an essential addition to our landscape literature and a book that belongs in the library of every serious landscape architect and conservationist.

Michigan Historical Review

A meticulous piece of research, thoroughly documented with an extensive bibliography, a complete listing of Jensen's design work, and definitions of names and terms of all the people and ideas relevant to Jensen and his work. The book places Jensen in the context in which he worked and ties landscape architecture to the reform movements of society to which he was so committed. It is an excellent book for readers interested in the Midwest landscape and the people who shaped cities and parks in the twentieth century.

Booknews
Jensen (1860-1951) was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Grese (landscape architecture, U. of Michigan) evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780801859472
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/1998
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 328
  • Sales rank: 735,417
  • Series: Creating the North American Landscape Series
  • Product dimensions: 0.69 (w) x 7.00 (h) x 10.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Robert E. Grese teaches landscape architecture in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Jensen's Early Background 1
2 A Cultural Context for Jensen's Work 10
The European Roots of American "Native" Landscape Design 11
Frederick Law Olmsted and the "Natural" Style 15
Formalism and the Search for an American Style 22
The Chicago Landscape 28
The Prairie as a Regional Style 44
The Emphasis on Native Plants in Design 52
3 Jensen's Design Career 62
Chicago's West Park District 62
Residential Design Work 94
Public and Institutional Work 103
Conservation Efforts 120
The Clearing: Ravinia, Illinois, and Ellison Bay, Wisconsin 136
4 Jensen's Design Style 151
The Use of Native Plants 151
Spaces 159
Light and Shadow 165
Movement 168
Water 172
Stonework 174
Council Rings 176
Players' Greens 178
Formal Gardens 180
Time and Change 182
5 Jensen's Legacy 187
Appendix A: Jensen's Projects 199
Appendix B: Key Names and Terms 221
Notes 257
Bibliography 277
Index 295

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