By Daily Press staff
Pamela Burton, a Santa Monica landscape architect, will present a slide lecture entitled “Mid-Century Gardens in Southern California,” at the Santa Monica Public Library on Sunday, March 16 at 2 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium, 1343 Sixth Street.
She also will sign copies of her recent book, “Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California” that she co-authored with Marie Botnick.
Burton will focus her talk on one of the great garden traditions of Southern California — the garden as an outdoor extension of the space of houses designed by masters of mid-century modern architecture such as Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and John Lautner. These gardens made use of low-maintenance, drought-resistant plants, and provided a space for informal outdoor living for children and adults. Private Landscapes, profiling 19 significant modern gardens and their accompanying houses by these celebrated architects, will be available for sale by Form Zero Books and for signing by co-authors Burton and Botnick.
Internationally known for her civic, university, and residential landscape projects, Burton is the landscape architect for the new Main Library designed by Moore, Ruble, Yudell, also of Santa Monica. She is a noted teacher and lecturer specializing in integrating the disciplines of art, architecture, and landscape.
Burton’s talk is free and open to the public. For more information, the public can call library general information (310) 458-8600.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 15, 2003. Read the original PDF.