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LESS A DECLARATION THAN SOME THOUGHTS
Marc Treib, Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is a historian and critic of landscape architecture and architecture who has published on a wide variety of modern and historical subjects in the United States, Japan, and Scandinavia. His writings have helped shaped the study of modern landscape architecture and architectural regionalism along the Pacific Coast. Author of hundreds of articles, hundreds of invited lectures, he has published over thirty books on architecture, landscape architecture, and art—most recently: The Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán; The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design; Serious Fun: The Landscapes of Claude Cormier; The Shape of the Land: Topography and Landscape Architecture; Poodling: On the Just Shaping of Shrubbery; and Noguchi's Gardens: Landscape as Sculpture. He is currently at work on three books: Alexandre Chemetoff, Landscapes and Urbanism: Changing Everything without Changing Everything; Building Light: Aalto, Ando, Flavin, Turrell; and A History of Modern Landscape Architecture.MARC TREIB
EDUCATION:
University of California, Berkeley, M.Arch.
University of California, Berkeley, M.A. Design
University of Florida, B.Arch.
SELECTED AWARDS:
Landscape Journal Outstanding Article Award, 1994
Bradford Williams Medal, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2003
Stuckey Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 2018
Honorary Member, American Society of Landscape Architects, 2019
SELECTED AUTHORSHIP:
Alexandre Chemetoff, Landscapes & Urbanism: Changing Everything without Changing Everything, ORO, 2025
The Shape of the Land: Topography & Landscape Architecture(essayist and editor), ORO, 2023
Poodling: On the Just Shaping of Shrubbery, ORO, 2023
Serious Fun: The Landscapes of Claude Cormier(co-author), ORO, 2021
The Aesthetics of Contemporary Planting Design(essayist and editor), ORO, 2021
Thinking a Modern Landscape, West & East: Christopher Tunnard, Sutemi Horiguchi, ORO, 2020
The Landscapes of George Descombes: Doing Almost Nothing, ORO, 2018
Landscapes of Modern Architecture: Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragán. Yale, 2016
Meaning in Landscape Architecture & Gardens, Routledge, 2011
Spatial Recall: Memory in Landscape Architecture and Architecture, Taylor & Francis, 2009
Dan Kiley Landscapes: The Poetics of Space, William Stout Publishers, 2009
Drawing/Thinking: Confronting an Electronic Age, Taylor & Francis, 2008
Representing Landscape Architecture: Images, Models, Words, Routledge, 2007
The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks, William Stout Publishers, 2005
Thomas Church, Landscape Architect: Designing a Modern Landscape, William Stout Publishers, 2004
Noguchi in Paris: Isamu Noguchi and the UNESCO Garden, William Stout Publishers and Unesco, 2003SELECTED TEACHING:
Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1968–2006 (Emeritus 2006) <<
