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Bloedel Reserve | February 2012 RICHARD HAAG | BLOEDEL RESERVE | FEBRUARY 2012 Bibliography (partial) Ament, Deloris Tarzan. “The Great Escape: Bainbridge Island’s Bloedel Reserve Offers a Tranquil, Green Retreat to Soothe the Spirit.” Seattle Times (9 October 1988) K1, K5. American Academy in Rome, “Annual Exhibition 1998,” June 12-July 12, 1998 (exhibition catalog), 52-55, 106. Appleton, Jay. The Experience of Landscape. Rev. ed. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1996: 248, 250, 254. Arbor Fund, Foundation. Bloedel Reserve. 2010. http://www.bloedelreserve. Beason, Tyrone. “Paul Hayden Kirk Left His Mark On Architecture Of Northwest.” The Seattle Times, May 25, 1995. “Bloedel Reserve: Jury Comments,” [ASLA President’s Award of Design Excellence] (Architectural League of New York’s Inhabited Landscapes exhibition), Places 4:4 (1987): 14-15. Botta, Marina. “Seattle: 140 Acres of Green Rooms.” Abitare (Italy) 272 (March 1989): 219-23. Fabris, Luca M.F. La Natura Come Amante/Nature as a Lover. Maggioli S.p.A. 2010: 7, 9, 13, 70-93. Frankel, Felice (photographs) and Jory Johnson (text). “The Bloedel Reserve.” Modern Landscape Architecture: Redefining the Garden. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991, 52- 69. Frey, Susan Rademacher, “A Series of Gardens,” Landscape Architecture Magazine (September 1986): cover, 55-61, 128. [ASLA President’s Award of Design Excellence coverage and site impressions.] Haag, Richard. “Contemplations of Japanese Influence on the Bloedel Reserve.” Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin 53:2 (Summer 1990): 16-19. Haddad, Laura. “Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park.” Book Review. Arcade, 16.3 (Spring 1998) 34. Illman, Deborah. 1998 UW Showcase: Arts and Humanities at the University of Washington. Calendar. Seattle: Litho Craft, 1998, March. Jacobson, Arthur Lee. Trees of the Bloedel Reserve. Bainbridge: Arbor Fund, 1992. Jones, Louisa. “The Garden Visitor’s Companion.” Thames and Hudson. July 2008, 122-123. Judd, Ron C. “Bloedel Reserve Worth the Wait.” Seattle Times. 13 May 1999, D7. Keim, Kevin. “PLACENOTES - Seattle”. Charles Moore Foundation, University of Texas Press. 2005. Kreisman, Lawrence. “Shapely Estate.” Seattle Times Pacific Magazine, May 14, 1989, 22-23, 26-32. Kreisman, Lawrence. “The Bloedel Reserve – Gardens in the Forest.” The Arbor Fund of Bloedel Reserve. 1988. Lockman, Heather. “Gardens: Nature in Gentle Custody.” Architectural Digest (June 1984) 122- 126. Lowry, Deci. “The Moss Garden at Bloedel Reserve.” Pacific Horticulture (Spring 1990): 16- 20. McGonigal, Steve. “Bloedel Reserve–Bainbridge Island.” Balls and Burlap (Sumner, WA) (June 1985) 7. Meyer, Elizabeth. “Terrible Beauty: The Sublime in Bloedel Reserve and Gasworks Park.” GSD News (Cambridge) Fall 1996, cover, 24-31. Nicolin, Pierluigi and Repishiti, Francesco. “Dizionario de nuovi paesaggisti.” Skira (February 2003). Pp. 139 (Italian) Oleson, Karen. “Bloedel Reserve, From Private Estate to Public Gardens”. Senior Project Case with PowerPoint. Unpublished. (March 2010): 1-76 Papier, Deborah. “The Avant-Gardeners.” Avenue (June/July 1990). Piecuch, Karla Hammer. Birds of the Bloedel Reserve. Bainbridge: Arbor Fund, 1994. Rainey, Rueben. Catalogue description for “The Inhabited Landscape” Exhibition (see below). 1987. Rainey, Reuben M. Rev. of Nature as a Lover, by Luca Maria Francesco Fabris. SiteLINES 7:2 (Spring 2012): 17-19. Saunders, William S., ed. Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park. Princeton Architectural Press and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 1998. Simpson, Nan Booth. “Inspired Intuition.” Garden Design (May/June 1993): 42-47. Schneider, Ann Marie/ Farquhar, Kate /Ladjevardi, Agnes/McConnico, Andrew. “Bloedel Reserve’s Gardens in the Forest. Unpublished, Spring 2010, 20 pgs including photos, case study. Research, University of Pennsylvania Spirn, Anne Whiston, “Perspectives: Essays on the State of Landscape Architecture.” Progressive Architecture (August 1991), 93. Streatfield, David. “The Resonance of Japan in Pacific Northwest Gardens.” Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin. Vol 60. No. 1 (Winter 1998), 5. Thompson, J. William. “Landscape of Dream: Warrior of Vision.” Landscape Architecture (September 1989) 79:7, 80-86(?). UW Showcase. 1997. http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1958a.html. Way, Thaisa. “Richard Haag: New Eyes for Old.” SiteLINES 7:2 (Spring 2012): 6-8 White, Hazel. Peril as Architectural Enrichment. Berkeley: Kelsey Street Press, 2011. Wikipedia. 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Haag. de Wit, Saskia. Hidden Landscapes. Case study. Unpublished. (October 2009): 1-12. deWit, Saskia. Articulating the Site / The Reflecting Garden as a Condensation of the Genius Loci. Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. Unpublished. Undated. Conferences | Exhibitions | Awards The Architectural League of New York City, “The Inhabited Landscape,” 1987. Harvard University Graduate School of Design “Exploring the Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag,” April/May 1996 (conference and exhibition). Instituto Nazionale Arredo Urbano E Strutture Ambientali, “Urban Green Areas: Woods and Ecological Parks,” Verona and Rome, Italy, 1990, (exhibit). National Building Museum, “Spotlight on Design: Richard Haag” (conference), April 12, 2001, Washington, DC. American Academy in Rome, “Annual Exhibition 1998,” June 12-July 12, 1998 (exhibition). See catalogue pg. 54/55. Award: President’s Award for Design Excellence, American Society of Landscape Architects, 1986 for the sequence of gardens/ Bloedel Reserve. (Richard Haag is the only person to receive 2 LAPAs – the first for the design of Gas Works Park in 1980) Lectures | Tours | Other R. Haag has presented more than 50 illustrated lectures promoting the Reserve including several in France, Italy, Japan, China and Canada. R. Haag has distributed this bibliography, scores of photographs, drawings, as well as given interviews to dozens of students, here and abroad, who have written term papers, theses, about the Reserve. R. Haag has lead many tours of the Bloedel Reserve. AIA Committee on Design Conference, June 24, 2011. .
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