The David R. Coffin 2011 - 2020 Publication Grant Recipients
The David R. Coffin Publication Grant is awarded annually to authors or publishers of books-in-progress on a landscape subject. The purpose of this grant is to reward contributors to the intellectual vitality of garden history and landscape studies. The grant recipients are listed in alphabetical order and categorized by year.
Sarah Allaback
Marjorie Cautley, Landscape Architect
Library of American Landscape History, Volume in the LALH series Designing the American Park
During the interwar years, Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954) designed state parks and landscapes for urban housing developments, wrote for American City, and taught in MIT’s new city-planning department. Marjorie Sewell Cautley, Landscape Architect documents her wide-ranging achievements in an era of rapid modernization and her professional career within the overlapping worlds of forestry, government consulting, and city planning.
Sarah Allaback, Ph.D., is the senior manuscript editor at the Library of American Landscape History and a coeditor of the LALH series Masters of Modern Landscape Design. She has worked previously as a historian and editor for the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record, as a consultant for the National Park Service, and as the publications manager at Monticello.
William K. Wyckoff and Kyle Byrand, editors
Designs upon Nature: The First Cultural Landscape History of Yellowstone National Park
In 1872 Yellowstone became America’s and the world’s first national park, preserving some of Earth’s most spectacular natural scenery. Although more than 950 books have been published on its natural wonders, until now no one book has treated its entire history and cultural landscape nor told the story of how it became a laboratory for an emerging National Park Service architectural style.
William Wyckoff, Ph.D., is a geography professor at Montana State University who specializes in the cultural and historical geography of North America and the American West. His research interests also include world regional geography and the history of geographical thought.
Karl Byrand has a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an M.S. in earth sciences from Montana State University-Bozeman. He chaired the department of geography and geology at the University of Wisconsin-Sheboygan and is now a professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin System.
Jane Amidon
Dan Kiley
Library of American Landscape History’s Modern Landscape Design series, Volume Five
Jane Amidon, professor of Landscape Architecture at Northeastern University, teaches studio, lecture, and seminar courses focused on the ideas, histories, and design strategies of changing cities.
Elizabeth Butler
Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota’s Garden
Chin Music Press
Bruce Rutledge of Chin Music Press and an editorial team from Kubota Garden Foundation are overseeing this compendium of contributions by a group of scholars, novelists, poets, and garden enthusiasts on the legacy of nurseryman Fujitaro Kubota, who transformed a clearcut riparian forest in south Seattle into a beautiful Japanese garden that is now a public park.
Helen L. Horowitz
Traces of J. B. Jackson, The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America
University of Virginia Press
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, a Smith College professor emerita, is the author of books ranging from architecture to women’s studies.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic
Exhibition Catalogue
This handsome volume will accompany an exhibition organized by Anna O. Marley, curator of historical American art at the academy and director of the Center for the Study of the American Artist.
Ethan Carr
The Greatest Beach: A History of the Cape Cod National Seashore
University of Georgia Press
Ethan Carr is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a landscape historian and preservationist specializing in public landscapes. He has written two award-winning books, Wilderness by Design (1998) and Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma (2007) that describe the twentieth-century history of planning and design in the U.S. national park system as the context for considering its future management. He was the volume editor for The Early Boston Years, 1882-1890 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted (2013).
Sara Cedar Miller
Before Central Park
Columbia University Press
Sara Cedar Miller was the official photographer for the Central Park Conservancy and from 1984 until 2017 and its designated historian after 1989. She has written and photographed Central Park, An American Masterpiece, published in 2003 and three other books on the Park. Her current book, Before Central Park, will be published in 2020 by Columbia University Press.
Reuben M. Rainey and J.C. Miller
Robert Royston
University of Georgia Press
J.C Miller, ASLA is a licensed landscape architect and writer with a deep interest in the post war California landscape. A partner at Vallier Design Associates, a landscape architecture and planning practice located in historic Point Richmond, California, he is also the former Director for the Landscape Architecture Program at UC Berkeley Extension.
Reuben M. Rainey is William Stone Weedon Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is Co-Director of the School's Center for Design and Health and a historian of American landscape architecture.
Alexander Robinson
The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles
Applied Research and Design Publishing
Alexander Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture & Urbanism program at the University of Southern California. His first book, Living Systems: Innovative Materials in Landscape Architecture (co-authored with Liat Margolis) is a treatise on performance landscapes systems. His recent work has focused on the design of landscape infrastructures, including the Los Angeles River and Owens Lake. In 2015, he was awarded the American Academy in Rome, Prince Charitable Trust Rome Prize.
Stephen Whiteman
Constructing Kangxi: Landscape, Image and Ideology in Qing China
University of Washington Press
Stephen Whiteman is Senior Lecturer in Art History at The University of Sydney. An historian of early modern Chinese landscape and visual culture, he is a former Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and current Secretary of the Society of Architectural Historians Landscape History Chapter. He is co-author of Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor's Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints (Dumbarton Oaks/HUP, 2016), which received the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize in 2017.
Margarita Blanco
Designing Paradise: Diego Suarez, America’s First Hispanic Landscape Architect
ORO Press
Margarita Blanco is a landscape architect and the co-founder and director of ArquitectonicaGEO, a landscape design firm in Miami, Florida. She is a PhD candidate in landscape architecture program at the University of Florida. Designing Paradise is her first book.
Sonja Duempelmann
Seeing Trees: Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Yale University Press
Sonja Dümpelmann, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University, is the coeditor, with Dorothee Brantz, of Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century.
Mariana Mogilevich
The Invention of Public Space: Design and Politics in Lindsay’s New York
University of Minnesota Press
Mariana Mogilevich is a historian of architecture and urbanism whose research focuses on the design and politics of the public realm. Her current work includes the forthcoming book The Invention of Public Space: Design and Politics in Lindsay’s New York, and a study of the production of waste and the production of space in New Jersey. A project to revisit interpretation at Paterson Great Falls National Historic Site was winner of the Van Alen Institute and National Parks Service competition National Parks Now. Her writing has appeared in journals including Praxis and Future Anterior and the edited volumes Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture, and Summer in the City. Mariana was an inaugural Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities at Princeton University. She received a PhD in architectural history from Harvard University.
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Depositions: Cultura and the Counsel of Roberto Burle Marx
University of Texas Press
Catherine Seavitt is an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at CUNY’s City College of New York and principal of Catherine Seavitt Studio. Her research focuses on design adaptation to sea level rise in urban coastal environments and explores novel landscape restoration practices given the dynamics of climate change. Seavitt co-authored the book On the Water: Palisade Bay, a climate adaptation proposal for the New York / New Jersey Upper Harbor; this study, examining the use of “soft” infrastructural systems to mitigate the impacts of storm surge and flooding, was the foundation of the 2010 exhibition Rising Currents at the Museum of Modern Art.
John Dixon Hunt
John Evelyn: A Life of Domesticity
Reaktion Books
John Dixon Hunt is Emeritus Professor of the History and Theory of Landscape at the University of Pennsylvania and a recipient of the Foundation for Landscape Studies’ Lifetime Achievement Award. His current research centers on the roles of history and typology in landscape architecture and garden design.
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
California Mission Landscapes: Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage
University of Minnesota
Dr. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center in the School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is a coauthor of Keywords in American Landscape Design (Yale University Press, 2010) and winner of the Society of Architectural Historian Landscape History Essay Prize (2012).
Dean Cardasis
James Rose
Library of American Landscape History
Dean Cardasis, FASLA, is a professor of landscape architecture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and director of the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Mohammad Gharipour
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Connections
Pennsylvania State University Press
Mohammad Gharipour is an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University. He is the director and founding editor of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and the author of Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in Poetry, Art and History (I. B. Tauris, 2013).
Elizabeth Milroy
The Grid and the River: Philadelphia's Green Places, 1682-1876
Penn State Press
Elizabeth Milroy is the Zoë and Dean Pappas Curator of Education for Public Programs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the author of The Grid and the River: Philadelphia's Green Places, 1682-1876, forthcoming from Penn State Press in 2016.
Giles Clement
“The Planetary Garden,” and Other Writings
University of Pennsylvania Press
Lake Douglas
Steward of the Land: The Writings of Nineteenth-Century Horticulturalist Thomas Affleck
LSU Press
Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein
Hare and Hare, Landscape Architects
Library of American Landscape History
Anna O. Marley
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920
University of Pennsylvania Press
Thaisa Way
Richard Haag, Landscape Architect: From Modern Space to Urban Ecological Design
University of Washington Press
Jack Williams
Easy On, Easy Off
University of Virginia Press
Sonia Dümpelmann
Flights of Imagination: Powered Aviation and the Art and Science of Landscape Design and Planning
University of Virginia Press
Georges Farhat
The French Formal Garden: Garden Types for Contemporary Architecture
Birkhäuser
Wybe Kuitert
Gardens and Landscapes in Japan, 1650–1950
University of Pennsylvania Press
Mark Laird
The Natural History of the Eighteenth Century Garden
Yale University Press
Micheline Nilsen
The Working Man’s Green Space: Allotments and Community Gardens in Britain, France, and Germany 1870–1919
University of Virginia Press
William E. O’Brien
Landscape of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South
Library of American Landscape History
Elizabeth Hope Cushing
Arthur A. Schurcliff (1870-1957) and the Road to Colonial Williamsburg
Library of American Landscape History
Alison Hirsch
City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin and Public Performance in Urban Renewal America
University of Minnesota Press
Karen M’Closkey
Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates
University of Pennsylvania Press
Emily Pugh
Architecture and the Cold War: The Berlin Wall and the Construction of East and West Berlin
University of Pittsburgh Press
William Tronzo
Petrarch’s Two Gardens
Italica Press
Suzanne L. Turner
The Garden Diary of Martha Turnbull, Mistress of Rosedown Plantation
Louisiana State University Press
Thomas E. Beck, Editor and translator
La Villa by Bartolomeo Taegio
University of Pennsylvania Press
Caroline Constant
Landscapes of Modern Architecture
University of Minnesota Press
Lake Douglas
Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans
Louisiana State University Press