Background
Creese, Walter Littlefield was born on December 19, 1919 in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Guy Talbot and Avis (Littlefield) Creese.
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The Description for this book, The Crowning of the American Landscape: Eight Great Spaces and Their Buildings, will be forthcoming.
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This is a new edition of a classic work by one of the eminent scholars in the field of landscape architecture. In contrast to urban planners who see the ever increasing size of our buildings and cities as uncontrollable, Walter L. Creese suggests instead that much can be done with smaller structures in "human sized" communities.
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Creese, Walter Littlefield was born on December 19, 1919 in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Guy Talbot and Avis (Littlefield) Creese.
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Brown U., 1941; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1950.
Tutor, teaching fellow, Harvard, 1944-1945; instructor, Wellesley College, 1945; from instructor to professor, Hite The Art Institute of Chicago, U. Louisville, 1946-1958; acting head, Hite The Art Institute of Chicago, U. Louisville, 1953-1954, 56-57; professor architecture, University of Illinois, 1958-1963; dean, School Architecture and Allied Arts, U. Oregon, 1963-1968; professor, chairman division architectural history and preservation, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1968-1987. Visiting summer professor Harvard University, 1961. Consultant history sites and buildings National.Park Service, 1972-1979, National Council Architectural Registration Bds., 1984-1986.
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Chairman Louisville and Jefferson County Planning and Zoning Commission, 1952-1955. Honorary member American Institute of Architects (Excellence in Education award Illinois Council 1987, Rehmann fellow 1960-1961). Member Society Architectural Historians (editor journal.
1950-1953, president 1958-1960), College Art Association (director 1951-1955), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sphinx Society.
Married Eleanor Roberts, June 16, 1945. 1 son, Guy.