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Thomas Dolliver Church (April 27, 1902 – August 30, 1978), also known by Tommy, was a renowned and innovative 20th century landscape architect based in California.〔(Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD): Thomas Dolliver Church )〕〔(UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design: About the archives ) . accessed 7.28.2014〕 He is a nationally recognized as one of the pioneer landscape designers of Modernism in garden landscape design known as the 'California Style'.〔( Stanfordalumni.org: Thomas Church ) . accessed 7.28.2014〕〔( Gardenserve biography )〕 His design studio was in San Francisco from 1933 to 1977. ==History== Thomas Church was born in Boston, and raised in California, in Ojai and Oakland.〔 He received his B.A. degree in Landscape Architecture from the College of Agriculture at the University of California, Berkeley in 1922.〔 〔(UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design )〕 He then attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received his Master’s degree in City Planning and Landscape Architecture in 1926.〔〔 After graduating Church spent six months at the American Academy in Rome on a Harvard awarded Sheldon Traveling Scholarship.〔 He also traveled throughout Europe, and became friends with Catherine Bauer while in France, with whom he would later teach at Berkeley. He studied Italian Renaissance gardens, and Moorish and Iberian Renaissance Spanish gardens, observing their responses to a climate so similar the Mediterranean climate in California. On returning from Europe he worked in a city planning office on the East Coast (1927-1928), then he taught at Ohio State University (1928-1930).〔〔 He returned to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1930, and was a Special Lecturer in the UC Berkeley Department of Landscape Architecture for the remainder of that year.〔〔 He also went into private practice in 1930 to design the Pasatiempo Estates in the Santa Cruz area, with Second Bay Tradition style architect William Wurster.〔 A 1937 trip was made to Finland, where seeing new modernist works and site planning by Alvar Aalto was influential to his design evolution.〔 He moved to San Francisco in 1932 and established his practice in The City. Church opened his own design studio in 1933, at 402 Jackson Street in San Francisco. He continued to practice there until his retirement in 1977. His own distinctive garden and residence were on Hyde Street, in the Russian Hill, San Francisco district. Church was a longtime contributor to Architectural Forum, House Beautiful, and Sunset magazines, bringing his design ideas with examples to his design peers and the public.〔〔 In 1951 Church was awarded the Fine Arts Medal, for Landscape Architecture, by the American Institute of Architects.〔 In 1973, Church was elected to the National Academy of Design, as an Associate Academician. He was also awarded the Rome Prize for his work in landscape architecture by the American Academy in Rome. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Church (landscape architect)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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