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In Remembrance12-09-11 | News

In Remembrance

If you watch the Academy Awards, you know the most heart-felt segment is when the show recalls those actors who passed away during the year and the memories they leave us through their performances. Well, this is our heart-felt moment of silence for landscape architects who we reluctantly must bid adieu this year. We briefly recall their careers and contributions. It?EUR??,,????'?????<

Chester Glenn Allen (1951-2011)

Chester Glenn Allen was the Marie Bickham Chair in the LSU College of Art & Design?EUR??,,????'?????<

Glenn was a significant contributor to major award-winning landscape architecture projects, including the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock; Shaw Center in Baton Rouge; Villa Zapu in Napa, Calif.; Candlestick Point in San Francisco; and 21st Century Waterfront Park in Chattanooga. He led the Louisville Waterfront Park Phase III and the University of Cincinnati UC/21 master plans. Glenn also was a principal on international projects for the London 2012 Olympics and the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

John Collins, FASLA (1936-2011)

John F. Collins, 75, a landscape architect, urban planner, nurseryman, and educator, died of complications of Parkinson?EUR??,,????'?????<

He taught at the School of Architecture and Planning in New Delhi, India, and served as a lecturer, professor and visiting studio critic for landscape architecture programs at many American universities.

''I wanted students that would look at nature, not pave over it. The thing that really excited me was the potential combination of horticulture and landscape architecture.''?EUR??,,????'?????<

William Gillespie (1926-2011)

Bill Gillespie was a founding partner of Gillespies, one of the first landscape architecture practices in Scotland. He was among a generation of landscape architects who recognized the profession needed to address a broader range of environmental issues and contribute to creating and regenerating urban areas. He served a term as president of the Institute of Landscape Architects (now the Landscape Institute), and in the mid-1980s was a strategic landscape adviser to the London Docklands Development Corp. and the Scottish Development Agency for the highly successful Glasgow Garden Festival.

E. Bruce MacDougall (1939-2011)

Edward Bruce MacDougall, born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, was head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst. He joined the faculty in 1977. He was a pioneer in applying computer technology to the professional needs of landscape architects and planners, serving as dean and director of the college for five years, stepping down to assume full-time academic duties in 1989. MacDougall was the author of Computer Programming for Spatial Programs, and Microcomputers in Landscape Architecture. He was elected an Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Tyler Fishman Manchuck (1975-2010)

Tyler Fishman Manchuck passed away at the youthful age of 35 after a battle with cancer. Tyler Fishman Manchuck was born and raised in Atlanta. She earned her BLA at the University of Georgia, moved to California and worked for Schwartz and Associates and April Philips Design Works, then joining Shades of Green Landscape Architecture as a partner www.shadesofgreenla.com.

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Burton S. Sperber, FASLA (1929-2011)

Burton Sperber, FASLA (left), founder, CEO and chairman of ValleyCrest Landscape Companies, next to his son Richard in this 2009 photo from the Aug. 2009 LASN: ?EUR??,,????'?????<www.landscapeonline.com/research/article/12304.
Photo: Guy Nelson, LASN.

Burton S. Sperber, FASLA (1929-2011)

Burton Sperber founded ValleyCrest in 1949 at the age of 19, leading the family of companies with vision and wisdom through more than six decades of dynamic growth to become the nation?EUR??,,????'?????<

ValleyCrest is counted on by architects, developers, commercial real-estate owners, public agencies, property managers and luxury homebuilders to help create, build or maintain some of the world?EUR??,,????'?????<

William E. Talley (1935-2011)

Bill Talley adored his family, loved his friends, and enjoyed his career as landscape architect, especially as campus landscape architect at the University of Washington. When he retired, he returned to his interest in watercolor painting, producing coastal landscapes and gardens, his favorite subjects. During his landscape architect career he enthusiastically shared his love of environmental design and plants. Many of those he taught became friends.

Kevin Ross Taylor (1953-2011)

Kevin Ross Taylor was a landscape architect and urban designer. He was born in Adelaide, Australia. He attained his architecture degree in 1978 at the S.A. Institute of Technology, now the University of South Australia. His final-year thesis was ?EUR??,,????'?????<

Christopher V. Thiel, ASLA, LEED AP (1964-2011)

Christopher Thiel, a graduate of UW-Madison, was a talented artist and designer who contributing to the beautification of public spaces in Wisconsin. He was an active member of the ASLA.