Date and Time
Designing the Twentieth Century – the Landscapes of Geoffrey Jellicoe with Dr Katie Campbell.
To be held at the Bath Royal Scientific and Literary Institution, Queen Square, Bath. BA1 2HN commencing at 2.30pm
Twentieth Century Visionary: Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe was born in 1900; though trained as an architect, he made his name as a landscape and garden designer. Moving from the elegant formality of Edwardian Classicism, through the novel geometries of Modernism to the post war fascination with abstract art and Jungian archetypes, he continually embraced new styles and approaches. Famously blending art, science, history and psychology, Jellicoe moved beyond mere aesthetics, conceiving landscape as a living narrative that shaped and reflected human experience. With projects ranging from small private gardens to large civic parks, from commercial landscapes to seminal textbooks, he became one of the twentieth century’s most influential designers. This lecture will provide an overview of his career, highlight key projects and discuss his enduring impact on landscape design.
Biography:
Katie Campbell is writer and garden historian. She lectures widely, has taught at Birkbeck, Bristol and Buckingham universities, writes for various publications and leads art and garden tours. Her most recent book, Cultivating the Renaissance (Routledge, 2022), explores the evolution of Renaissance ideas and aesthetics through the Medici Tuscan villas. Previous publications include British Gardens in Time, to accompany the BBC television series, Paradise of Exiles, a study of the late nineteenth century Anglo-Florentine garden-makers, and Icons of Twentieth Century Landscape Design.
