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TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY 



PRIZE OF ROME IN LANDSCAPE 

 ARCHITECTURE 



1915 



Reprinted (rom "Landscape Architecture" 



In this number of "Landscape Archi- 

 tecture" are reproduced the complete 

 texts of the programs of the Preliminary 

 and Final Competitions for the Fellow- 

 ship in Landscape Architecture at the 

 American Academy in Rome, and the 

 principal of the drawings submitted in 

 the Final Competition, together with the 

 topography on which the plans were 

 based. These and all the other drawings 

 submitted in that competition, and the 

 drawings submitted in the Preliminary 

 Competition, have been on exhibition in 

 New York, are now on exhibition at Har- 

 vard University in the School of Land- 

 scape Architecture, and will later be on 

 exhibition at Cornell University, the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, and the University of 

 Michigan. The drawings are of interest 

 not only for their initial schemes, but for 

 the exceptionally thorough way in which 

 these schemes are developed in plan, 

 elevations, and perspective; in working 

 drawings and reports ; and in calculations 

 of labor and materials, and estimated 

 itemized costs from unit-data furnished, 

 along with the programs of the compe- 

 titions, by the Committee on Education 

 of the American Society of Landscape 

 Architects. This Committee, consisting 



of Professor James Sturgis Pray, chair- 

 man ; Professor Bryant Fleming, Profes- 

 sor Aubrey Tealdi, Mrs. Beatrix Farrand. 

 Mr. Warren H. Manning, and Mr. Her- 

 bert J. Kellaway, has represented the 

 American Society of Landscape Archi- 

 tects in all its negotiations with the 

 Academy, and has full authority to de- 

 velop the Course of Study to be adopted 

 for the Fellowship after being approved 

 b}' the Trustees of the Academy. This 

 has been developed and forwarded to the 

 Academy, who now have it under con- 

 sideration. Meanwhile, Mr; Lawson, 

 the successful competitor this year, sailed 

 from New York, with the new Fellows in 

 the other arts, on the White Star steam- 

 ship "Cretic," September 9, and is pre- 

 sumably now in residence at the Acad- 

 emy, as the first representative there of 

 the art and profession of Landscape 

 Architecture. Although the unusual con- 

 ditions created by the war cannot at best 

 be particularly favorable for using to 

 fullest advantage the opportunities ex- 

 pected to accrue to a Fellow in our sub- 

 ject at the Academy, the Society and the 

 Academy nevertheless hope for very val- 

 uable results from Mr. Lawson's inves- 

 tigations and study. 



