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DAVID STREATFIELD

Professor Emeritus, Landscape Architecture
348 Gould Hall
Box 355734
Seattle WA 98195-5734

buzzz@u.washington.edu

dave streatfield | curriculum vita | research | projects | publications | courses taught | theses advised | awards


CURRICULUM VITA

ACADEMIC

2007-
Professor Emeritus, Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
2004-07 
Member, Faculty , Ph.D Program  in  the Built Environment, College of Architecture and Urban Planning
1991-
Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
Professor of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Washington
1992-96
Chair, Department of Landscape Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington
1976-91
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washingto
Associate Professor of Urban Design & Planning, University of Washington
1971-76
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
1970-71
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1967-70
Lecturer, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley
1963-64
Instructor, School of Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, Michigan State University
1962-63
Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Architecture Clemson College, Clemson, S.C.

AWARDS

1998
California Gardens: Creating A New Eden (1994). Listed by The American Horticultural Society as one of the '75 Great American Garden Books in 75 Years' in observance of its 75th anniversary

1988

Victor Steinbrueck Chair, College of Architecture and Urban Planning University of Washington

1985

Individual Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1978

Bradford Williams Medal, American Society of Landscape Architects

1973-74

Beatrix Farrand Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley

1971

First Prize for Planning and Conservation of the Natural Environment, San Francisco Chapter, American Institute of Planners for, Early Warning System: The Santa Cruz Mountains Regional Pilot Study

1965

Honor Award for High Quality Site Design, Civic Trust, for the Dacres Estate, London

1964

First Design Award for High Quality in High Density Housing, Minister of Housing and Local Government, for the Dacres Estate, London

1960

Royal Institute of British Architects Victory Scholarship and Silver Medal

PUBLICATIONS

Works in Progress:
                                   
Essay, "Divergent Threads in the Gardens of Greene and Greene," in Edward R./ Bosley  and Anne Mallek (eds.) New and Native Beauty: The Art and Craft of Greene and Greene to be published by Merrel  iin 2008 in connection with an exhibition on Greene and Greene at The Huntington Library, San Marino.

Commissioined Introductory Essay  Christpher Grampp,  From Yard to Garden:  The Domestication of American Home Grounds since 1860 .

Commissioned Introductory  Essay "Gender and the History of Landscape Architecture,' in Linda Jewell and Louise Mozingo (eds.)  A  Century of Women: Evaluating Gender in the Landscape to be published by University of Virginia Press

 Essay  for book on John Charles Olmsted and The Pacific Northwest Region by Joan Hockaday  to be published by  Washington State University Press

Entries on William Hertrich, Charles Gibbs Adams, and John McLaren in the 2nd Volume of Charles Birnbaum (ed.) Pioneers of American Landscape Design   to be publsihed by McGraw Hill

Published

2007
Streatfield, David C.. Orto  Botanico,' Padua: A  Renaisance  Jewel," Washington Park Arboretum Bulletiin
69(1)

Streatfield, David C. with Anne Christoph. Sicilian, Iris and Valencia Courts, Scripps College,  Restoration Report for the Grounds and Buildings Committee, Scripps College, Claremont, California

2006
_____ "How  I Became A Gardener,"  Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin  Vol. 68 (2)  Summer, 2006:  2
                          
_____ 12 Entries in Patrick Taylor (ed.) Oxford Book of Gardens , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press

_____ "The First American Botanic Garden: John Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia," Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin    Vol. 67 (4) (Winter, 2006):  8-                                                         11 +28-29.

2005        
'Streatfield, David C. "Isabelle Greene and  the California Garden," in Kurt  G. F. Helfrich (ed.)  Isabelle Greene: Shaping Place in the Landscape  Santa Barabra, Cal:  The University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, pp. 11-26.

'Streatfield, David C."Californio Culture and Landscapes 1894-1942: Entwining Myth and  Romance with Preservation," in Design With Culture  Charles A. Birnbaum and Mary V. Hughes (eds.)  Charlottesville, VA :  The University of Virginia Press. PP.103-135.

Streatfield, David C."the Dunn Gardens: Olmstedian Picturesque and Robinsonain Woodland Gardening," Pacific Horticulture  Vol. 66 (3) July /Aug /Sept.13-21., 2005 :

2004        
'Streatfield, David C. Book review of Peter Willis  Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden  Newcastle-upon -Tyne, Elysium Press Publishers  Landscape Journal   22 (2), 2003: 163-163.

2003        
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Anne S.  Cunningham, Crystal Palaces. Garden Conservatories of  the United States.  New York:  Princeton Architectural Press.  Public Gaden

2003        
Streatfield, David C. "from 'Picturesque' to 'Gardenesque':  Gardens by the Omsted Brothers in Western Washington, Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin  Fall 2003:  4-9.

2002        
Streatfield, David C. Essays, "Gudmund Nyelund Brandt, 1878-1945;"  "Thomas Dolliver Church, 1902-1978;" "Huntington Library and Botanic Gardens;"  "Stanford University;" in Candace A. Shoemaker (ed.)  Encyclopedia of Gardens. History and Design   (Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2002)Vol. I pp. 184-186;  293-295; Vol. II pp. 615-617; Vol III. pp. 1252-1254.

2000        
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Mark Laird The Flowering of The English Garden:  Ornamental Planting Design in English Pleasure Grounds1720-1800    Philadelphia, PA:  University of Pennsylvania Press in Landscape Forum   2 :  36-37
 
 Streatfield, David C. Pioneers  of  American Landscape  DesignAn Encyclopedia    Charles A. Birnbaum and Robin Karson (eds.)  Lockwood  deForest, pp. 92-95;  William Hammond Hall ,PP 159-162;  Edward Huntsman-Trout, pp. 184-188;  and Francis Townsend Underhill  pp. 382-402  New York:  Van Nostrand in association withNational Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and the Library of American Landscape History  by  Van Nostrand

1999     
Streatfield, David C. Entry on Thomas Church in American National Biography   (ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes), New York: Oxford University Press, Vol 4; 874-875
 
Streatfield, David C. Book Review  of Linda Flint McClelland Building  the National Parks  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press (1998) Pacific Historical  Review.
 
Streatfield, David C. Book Review of Thomas D. Church, Grace Hall, Michael Laurie Gardens Are For People  (3rd Edition)  Berkeley: University of California Press (1995)  The Massachusetts Journal of Garden History   6 (Fall) :  54

1998        
Streatfield, David C. "The Resonance of Japan in  Pacific Northwest Gardens"
Washington Park Arboretum Journal    60 (1):   2-5 

1996        
Streatfield, David C. "The Challenges and Opportunies of Garden and Landscape History  in the Pacific Northwest-I I" Pacific  Northwest  Garden History  Society   Journal  1 (2):  9-10
       
Streatfield, David C. "The Challenges and Opportunies of Garden and Landscape History in the Pacific Northwest" Pacific Northwest  Garden History  Society   Journal  1 (1):  6-8

Streatfield, David C. "An address on the History of Gardens and Landscapes in California"  Eden   1 (1):  1-
 
Streatfield, David C.Book Review of Humphry Repton: The Red Books  for Brandsbury and Glemham Hall, with an Introduction by Stephen Daniels, 1994.  Washington D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.  Landscape Journal   15[1]:  72-73

Streatfield, David C."Garden at Thurlow Lodge."  Chapter  in book on Thurlow Lodge to be published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada

1995        
Streatfield, David C."Francis Townsend Underhill," in Charles Birnbaum and Julie K Fix (eds.) Pioneer s of American Landscape  Design  II:    An Annotated Bibliography Washington D.C., U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Cultural Resources:  Preservation Assistance Division; Historic Landscape Initiative, pp. 143-145
 
Streatfield, David C. "The Influence of Japan Upon Gardens in California and the Pacific Northwest," in Robin Karson (ed.) Master s of  American Garden Design IV : proceedings of the Garden Conservancy symposium held March 10,1994 at the Paine Webber Building in New York , New York, Cold Spring, N.Y.:  The Garden Conservancy, pp. 39-49

1994
California Gardens: Creating a New Eden, New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press

1993

"Arts and Crafts Gardens." in Fronia Simpson (ed.) The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life. New York, London and Paris: Abbeville Press (1993) pp. 35-54.

1993

Michael Laurie and David C. Streatfield
75 Years of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley: An informal History, Part II. Berkeley, CA: Department of
Landscape Architecture, University of California

1992

"Western Expansion." in Walter T. Punch (ed.)
Keeping Eden: A History of Gardening in America. Boston, Toronto, London: Bullfinch Press, Little Brown
and Co. pp. 97-118

1991

"The Olmsteds and the Landscape of the Mall." Chapter in The Mall in Washington 1791-1991, published for the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. by University Press of New England, pp. 117-142, Vol. 30 Studies in the History of Art. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Symposium Papers XIV

1988

Michael Laurie and David C. Streatfield
75 Years of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley. An Informal History. Part I: the First 50 Years. Berkeley, CA.
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

1987

Russell Beatty, David C. Streatfield, and Renee Bradshaw
Landscape Plan for the Rancho Los Alamitos Foundation Master Plan Program, Fall 1987-Historical Overview, p. 19-89, and general participation

1981

"Art and Nature in the English Landscape Garden: Design Theory and Practice, 1700-1818" in Landscape in the Gardens and Literature of Eighteenth Century England, pp. 3-87. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. (Colloquium Proceedings)

1980

"Landscape Design in Washington State" in A Guide to Architecture in Washington State by Woodbridge, Montgomery and Streatfield, pp. 45-62. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. (Commissioned Essay)

1978

"The Evolution of the California Landscape: IV - Suburbia at the Zenith" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 67: 417-424. (Commissioned article)

1977

"The Evolution of the California Landscape: III - The Great Promotions" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 67: 68-75. (Commissioned article)

1976

"The Evolution of the California Landscape: II - Arcadia Compromised" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 66: 117-126. (Commissioned article)

"Evolution of the Southern California Landscape: I - Settling Into Arcadia" in Landscape Architecture ,Vol. 66: 39-46. (Commissioned article)

1975
"Shifting Sands, Verdant Umbrageousness, and 'The People's Park': Public Open Space in San Francisco, 1866-1893" in Development Series, Vol. I (2): 15-36. College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University
of Washington, Seattle. (Commissioned article)

1970

Tito Patri, David C. Streatfield, and Thomas J. Ingmire
Early Warning System: The Santa Cruz Mountains Regional Pilot Study, Department of Landscape
Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

1970

"The Tyranny of the Garden" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 60 (2): 96-100

1969

"Standards for Historic Garden Preservation and Restoration" in Landscape Architecture, Vol. 59 (3): 198-204

Robert H. Twiss, Robert H. and David C. Streatfield. NICASIO: Hidden Valley in Transition, Marin County Planning Department, San Rafael, CA

EDUCATION

Diploma/Architecture BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS, Brighton, Sussex, England, 1956

Certificate in Landscape Architecture University College, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, England, 1962

Master of Landscape Architecture UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1966