The 3 Examples

People used to play parlor games, today we frequently ask our visitors and job candidates this question...

Q: What are the three greatest examples of landscape architecture that you have ever visited?

Now, we have mapped all but the most recent answers as well.

THE LIST:

  • Le Jardin botanique de Montréal
  • Jardins des Quatre Vents - Thought to be the largest private garden in North America.
  • Conservatory Garden within Central Park
     

  • Central Park
  • Dyrham Park -- Film location for 'Remains of the Day' (1993).
  • Saiho-ji Temple - particularly the Moss Garden
     


  • The Gates by Christo and Jeanne-Claude
  • Bamboo Garden by Alexandre Chemetoff in Parc de la Villette
  • Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Duisburg Nord-Landscape Park
  • Bundesgartenschau München 2005 -- With an emphasis on the design work of Gilles Vexlard.
  • Potsdam near Berlin


  • Gainesway Farm
  • Miller Garden
  • Woodland Cemetery - Asplund's Cemetery in Stockholm
  • Prospect Garden (at Princeton)
  • Mill Race Park (primarily the Walkway)
  • Fenway Park


  • Fallingwater
  • Villa D'Este
  • Motsuji
  • Honolua Bay in Maui
  • Vaux le Vicomte
  • South Beach
  • Buttes Chaumont
  • Villa D'Este
  • Mountain Theater on Mount Tamalpais
  • The New Jersey Pinelands
  • Inner Harbor
  • John Deere
  • San Antonio Riverwalk
  • Acadia
  • Gas Works Park
  • Central Park
  • Vaux le Vicomte
  • Studley Royal

  • The Battlefield at Little Bighorn
  • A road connecting a New Jersey hometown and a father's cemetery
  • Cornish Coast Path

  • Central Park
  • Mount Vernon
  • Cardada Mountain Top, Locarno, Switzerland by Paolo L. Bürgi
  • Munich Olympic Village
  • Disney
  • Ontario

  • Antioch Church by the Rural Studio
  • Taj Mahal
  • Palace of Fine Arts

  • Boboli Gardens -- specifically an area by the ampitheater bounded by Lindens
  • Brion Cemetery
  • Wexner Center for the VIsual Arts at the Ohio State University

  • Vaux le Vicomte by Le Notre
  • Parc de Sceaux by Le Notre (not as nice since the storm)
  • Times Square (the old one) or any other NYC street corner

  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial
  • Stowe
  • Hollyhouse Farms - in Ontario

  • Pier A - Hoboken, NJ
  • the Zen Gardens
  • the Netherlands

  • Freeway Park
  • Blue Ridge Parkway
  • Manteo, NC -- Randolph Hester
  • Bloedel Reserve
  • Central Park
  • An obscure Baptist Church in NC (no longer remembers name or town)

  • Vaux le Vicomte by Le Notre
  • Daitokuji
  • Worlitz

  • Teotihuacan
  • Seattle's Worlds Fair Site
  • Villa Cetinale
  • University of Virgina Jefferson's Academical Village
  • Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan
  • Piazza Novona in Rome
  • Jardin des Tuilleries
  • Hancock Village
  • Monticello
  • Robson Square in Vancouver, BC
  • Prospect Park
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden
  • Piazza del Duomo in Florence
  • Storm King Wall by Andy Goldsworthy
  • 14th Street Subway Entrance


  • The Mall
  • Cape Canaveral
  • Machu Piccu


  • The Pergola at WaveHill
  • Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and Video Salon-- a.k.a. Rooftop of DIA by Dan Graham
  • Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden



  • Biltmore Estate
  • The Mall
  • Parc Andre Citroen


  • The James Rose Center in Ridgewood, NJ
  • Central Park
  • Durfee Gardens

  • Millenium Park in Chicago
  • Central Park
  • Hopewell Township, NJ for its greenbelt


  • Arnold Arboretum
  • Central Park
  • The Ice Parks, Canada (In particular the glaciers)
  • Lake Powell


  • Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Blue Ridge Parkway
  • The 1930s National Park Entrances



  • Yosemite Valley
  • Villa Gamberaia
  • Brooklyn Bridge


  • Rousham Gardens (by William Kent)
  • The Temple of Karnac
  • Dumbarton Oaks

  • Central Park
  • The Lawn at UVA
  • The Hudson Valley as a region



  • Villa Lante
  • Courances
  • The City of Rome


  • Mill Creek Canyon Park (aka Earthworks Park) by Herbert Bayer
  • Landschaftpark Duisburg-Nord
  • # Haas Sherover Promenades by Halprin and Aronson
  • Promenade Plante in Paris
  • Derek Jarman's Garden at Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, England
     

     

     


    Sometimes there is a distraction causing the candidate to fairly believe that the question asked is: What is the greatest landscape that you have ever visited? Conditions do not always permit a full clarification of the question or the answers, but we are working on that.

    Clealy, it should be a built landscape. This is not a comparison of the great paper designs.

    Ideally, the response provides choices which offer commentary on the inherent nature of the profession and practice of landscape architecture.

    Ideally, the response also reflects a full, diverse breadth of experience. Maybe a park, a plaza, and a 20,000 acre managed landscape. Or, one in Europe, one in Asia, one in North America (show off). But sometimes it reflects a respondent's personal biases.