Harriet Pattison

Harriet Pattison is an American landscape architect.

Harriet Pattison
Born
Chicago, Illinois, United States
OccupationLandscape architect

Early life and education

Pattison was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was the youngest of the seven children of William Lawrence and Bonnie Abbott.[1] She attended the Francis Parker School in Chicago.[1] In 1951, she graduated with a B.A. from the University of Chicago. Pattison also studied acting at the Yale School of Drama[1] and took graduate philosophy courses at the University of Edinburgh. After, she moved to Philadelphia to study piano under Edith Braun at the Curtis Institute of Music. In 1958, she met architect Louis Kahn. Kahn began a relationship with her and encouraged her study of landscape architecture.[1]

Career

Pattison's first landscape architecture apprenticeship was at the offices of modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley in Vermont.[2] She received a MA in landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, studying with Ian McHarg, Roberto Burle Marx, M. Paul Friedberg, and others.[3] Pattison also designed a master plan for the 125-acre (51 ha) The Hershey Company headquarters.[3]

After graduating from University of Pennsylvania, she joined the landscape architecture firm of George Patton. She collaborated with Louis Kahn on several projects. Together, they designed the Kimbell Art Museum and Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City.[3][4]

Selected projects

Personal life

Her personal relationship with Louis Kahn is described in the 2003 documentary by their son, the film's director, Nathaniel Kahn, My Architect: A Son's Journey.[5] In 2020, she published her and Louis Kahn's correspondences in Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn[6] (Yale University Press, 2020).

Awards and honors

At age 87, Pattison became a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) in 2016.[3]

Books

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn (Yale University Press, 2020)[6][7][8]

References
  1. "Harriet Pattison | The Cultural Landscape Foundation". tclf.org.
  2. Sisson, Patrick (April 20, 2016). "Pioneering Landscape Architect Harriet Pattison Finally Gets Her Due". Curbed.
  3. Green, Jared (April 21, 2016). "Finally, Recognition for Harriet Pattison". THE DIRT.
  4. "Our Days Are Like Full Years by Harriet Pattison review – moving and heroic". The Guardian. November 9, 2020.
  5. My Architect, The Guardian
  6. "Our Days Are Like Full Years | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu.
  7. "Her Architect". February 19, 2021.
  8. "Review of 'Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn'". www.architecturalrecord.com.
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