Dan Kiley

Description	Landscape Architect
Dates	1912 - 2004
Lived/Worked	Boston, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Franconia, New Hampshire, Vermont,

Best known for...

In 1955, Dan Kiley worked with Eero Saarinen on the Miller garden. The Miller garden was widely acclaimed and became a key American example of the Abstract landscape style.

Why is he/she important?

Kiley was one of the few modern landscape architects during the 1950's. He was also member of the award winning team to design the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. In the following years he designed gardens for Dulles Airport, Oakland Museum, the United States Air Force Academy, Independence Mall in Philadelphia, the Dallas Museum of Art, and Fountain Place in Texas. He was considered by knowledgeable landscape architects to have led the way in postwar American landscape design, along with Thomas Church, Lawrence Halprin, and Garrett Eckbo.

Historical context

He was taught by members of the Bauhaus at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He was also part of the modern landscape movement in the 1950's. Influenced heavily by fellow revolutionary landscape architects such as Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, Louis Kahn, and Gordon Bunshaft.

How to see their work

Kiley's work can be seen in various places in America. These include his modern masterpiece, the Miller Garden; the Dallas Museum of Art Sculpture Garden with Edward Larabee Barnes in 1983; and the 1985 Fountain Place in Dallas, Texas, designed with Harry Cobb.

{Designer Name} on the web

tclf.org/pioneers/kiley.htm - Pioneers of American Landscape Design: Dan Kiley