John Claudius Loudon: landscape architecture's giant brain

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CITY as LANDSCAPE architecture

Tom Turner

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Tom Turner is the author of books, eBooks, blogs and videos on urban design, garden design and landscape design - including a book on City as Landscape. He publishes selections from books and other material as podcasts. They deal with the history, theory, position and prospects for what Geoffrey Jellicoe called 'the most comprehensive of the arts': landscape architecture.

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John Claudius Loudon: landscape architecture's giant brain

CITY as LANDSCAPE architecture

43 minutes 2 seconds

4 years ago

John Claudius Loudon: landscape architecture's giant brain

An illustrated version of this podcast is available on Youtube.

A reasonable case exists for seeing John Claudius Loudon as Landscape Architecture's Giant. He lived from 1783-1843. More research is necessary but it is evident that:

(1) Loudon was nearer to polymath status than anyone else who has devoted their life to the profession

(2) Loudon had a decisive influence on the adoption of the term 'landscape architect' by the profession

(3) Loudon laid the ground for a science-and-art based profession specialising in public projects (rather than private gardens)

(4) Loudon's 1822 and 1829 proposals for London (which included a circular Promenade and a set of concentric Breathing Zones, which we would call Green Belts or Green Infrastructure - GI) had a far-reaching influence which may well have included subsequent proposals by William Light (for Adelaide), by Joseph Paxton (for London), by Frederick Law Olmsted (for Boston), Ebenezer Howard's green belt ideas and Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan and Greater London Plan.

(5) Loudon is one of great 'fathers of landscape architecture'.