ROBERT ROYSTON ~ SIGNED / Mid Century Modern Landscape Architecture Design / Public Gardens / Bay Area California architect Garrett Eckbo retailer

Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston And The Suburban Park

By Rainey, Reuben M.; Miller, J. C. ; University Of California, Berkeley.; College Of Environmental Design

Published by William Stout Publishers, San Francisco (2006). First Edition SIGNED by ROBERT ROYSTON ( don't believe it is personalized think it reads "Chief at Ease!" Robert Royston 10/27/2006 see second photo) Very good hardcover with dedication label blank page ( most likely mounted by publisher)
in dust jacket with some scuffing else good + near very good; 159 pages with index loaded with photos, plans ... different projects.

Among the first partners of Bay Area architect Garrett Eckbo was Robert Royston, a landscape architect who received the American Society of Landscape Architects' highest medal in the 1980s at the peak of his career. This monograph celebrates Royston's influential suburban parks. With their clean, geometric designs, water features, crisply defined areas, whimsical play elements and brilliantly chosen plant material. The architect's retailer advanced exploration of the landscape form made the parks remarkably insightful in their understanding of sociology, play and the postwar suburban landscape. Royston's parks had an immediately recognizable rhythm and style born of Japanese and Scandinavian influences and Royston's own aesthetic as a native Californian.