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Landscape Architecture: Gas Works Park Bibliography
Subject Guide for Landscape Architecture Students.
Gas Works Park
Image: Gas Works Park
Author: W & J
License: CC BY-SA 2.0
Date: 04/22/2014
Publications 1910-1969
Seattle's New $400,000 Coke Industry Begins Operation, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 09/02/1914
Washington Natural Gas Company, "Construction of Oil-Gas Generators #3-6 at Lake Station: History and Photographs," Hand-typed, 1947
Read, Kenneth E., "The Ghostly Gas Works," Seattle Magazine, 11/1969, p. 42-45.
Publications 1970-1975
Collins, Alf, "Park Art or Cluttered Confusion, or...." Puget Soundings, 04/1970.
Haag, Richard, Associates, Incorporated, "A Report Substantiating the Master Plan for the Myrtle Edwards Park [Gas Works Park]," (Seattle: City of Seattle, 04/1971)
West, Karen, "Dead Gas Plant Looks Toward LIfe as a Park," Outlook [Greenwood-Ballard edition], Part I, 10/13/1971; Part II, 10/20/1971.
Haag, Richard, "Approved Myrtle Edwards Park Reviews List," (Seattle: Richard Haag Associates, Incorporated), 01/1972.
Metzger, Jeane, "Old Gas Works to Become Unique Park," Everett Herald, Western Sun Panorama, 01/15/1972.
"A Post Revolutionary Park Is on Its Way," Archimuse [University of Washington, Department of Architecture], vol. 11, 02/08/1972.
Chapman, Bruce K., "The Gas Works: A new Look at an Old Eyesore," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Northwest Today section, 05/14/1972.
Casey, Charlotte, "The Gas Works," Washington Purchaser, 04/1973.
Campbell, Craig, "Seattle's Gas Plant Park," Landscape Architecture, 07/1973.
Engstrom, Karen, "Lake Union Park: A Back-to-Nature Site," Seattle Times, 12/16/1973.
Hawkins, Robert, "Seattle, the Quality of Life," Northwest Orient Passages, 09/1974.
"The Greening of the Gas Works," Seattle Business, 01/09/1975.
Haag, Richard, "Gas Works Park--Phase I Construction," (Seattle: Richard Haag Associates, Incorporated),1975.
Goldberger, Paul, "Gas Works in Centerpiece of Seattle Parks," New York Times,
Haag, Richard, "Seattle, Washington--Gas Works Park Fact Sheet," (Seattle: Richard Haag Associates, Incorporated), 09/1975.
Karol, John, Working Places, Society of Industrial Archaeology. (This was available from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036.)
Publications 1976-1980
Haag, Richard, "Memorandum re: Gas Works Park," (Seattle: Richard Haag Associates, Incorporated), April 15, 1976.
Kidney, Walter C., "Gas Works Park," in Working Places: the Adaptive Use of Industrial Buildings, (Washington, D.C.: Society for Industrial Archaeology, 1976), p. 135-137.
Carpenter, Edward K. "Gas Works Park, " 37 Design and Environment Projects, (Washington, D.C.: R.C. Publications, 1976), p. 44-45.
"Canoeing Close to Home--Aroound Seattle & Portland," Sunset, 04/1976
"A Tale of Three Cities," Atlantic Monthly, April 1976,, p. 65-66.
Getzels, Judith N., "Other Public Facilities: Unexpected Opportunities," Recycling Public Building Report No. 319, (Washington, D.C.: Planning Advisory Service, American Society of Planning Officials, August 1976), p. 19-20.
Robertson, Hugh, "The Gas Works: How to Make a Park out of Recycled Jumbo Junk," View Northwest, September, 1976, p. 38-40.
Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island. He reshaped the field of landscape architecture as a designer, teacher, and activist. In 1964, Haag founded the landscape architecture department at the University of Washington, and his innovative work contributed to the increasingly significant design approach known as urban ecological design, which encourages thinking beyond the boundaries of gardens and parks to consider the broader roles that landscapes play within urban ecosystems, such as storm water drainage and wildlife habitat. Gas Works Park is studied in every survey of twentieth-century landscape architecture as a modern work that challenged the tenets of modernism by engaging a toxic site and celebrating an industrial past. Haag's work with ecologists and soil scientists in his landscape remediation and reclamation projects opened new areas of inquiry into the adaptive reuse of post-industrial sites. Thaisa Way places Haag's work within the context of changes in the practice of landscape architecture over the past five decades in the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The book should be of interest to specialists as well as to readers who are interested in the changes in urban landscapes inspired by Haag's work. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=fUBeOCA8-kQ
Call Number: BE Library - Reference - SB466.U7 B58 1998
ISBN: 9781568981178
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
The work of landscape architect Richard Haag is thoroughly grounded in the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, yet has won international recognition for its universally appreciated artistic subtlety. His two designs for the Seattle area, Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park, are among the most celebrated modern American landscape projects. This is the first book to explore these works, both in terms of Haag's design process and of the impact of these projects on other architects.
The Landscape Architecture of Richard Haag by 
Richard Haag: Bloedel Reserve and Gas Works Park by