Harriet Pattison
Harriet Pattison | |
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Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, U.S. | |
Occupation | Landscape architect |
Harriet Pattison (October 29, 1928 – October 2, 2023) was an American landscape architect.
Early life and education
Pattison was born in
Career
Pattison's first landscape architecture apprenticeship was at the offices of
After graduating from University of Pennsylvania, she joined the landscape architecture firm of George Patton. She collaborated with
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.[6] In 2020, she published her and Louis Kahn's correspondences in Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn[7] (Yale University Press, 2020).
Pattison died at home in
Awards and honors
In 2016, Pattison became a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) at age 87.[4]
Books
- Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2020.
References
- ^ a b Bernstein, Fred (October 3, 2023). "Harriet Pattison, 94, Dies; Landscape Architect With a Tie to Louis Kahn". The New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Harriet Pattison". The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
- ^ Sisson, Patrick (April 20, 2016). "Pioneering Landscape Architect Harriet Pattison Finally Gets Her Due". Curbed.
- ^ a b c d Green, Jared (April 21, 2016). "Finally, Recognition for Harriet Pattison". THE DIRT.
- ^ Moore, Rowan (November 9, 2020). "Our Days Are Like Full Years by Harriet Pattison review – moving and heroic". The Observer.
- ^ "Tell me about my father", The Guardian
- ^ a b "Our Days Are Like Full Years". Yale University Press.
- ^ "Her Architect". February 19, 2021.
- ^ "Review of 'Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn'". Architectural Record.