Jellicoe, Geoffrey, 1900-1996 (British town planner and landscape architect)
Person
Biography/Historical Note
He was born in 1900 in Chelsea, London. He studied at the Architectura Association in London and in 1929 he was awarded the Bernard Webb Studentiship (Architecture). During his stay in Italy he studied the Italian Renaissance Gardens, on which he published a famous book, with John C. Shepherd. In 1929 he was a founding member of the Landscape Institute, of which he became President from 1939 to 1949. In 1948 he became president af the International Federation of Ladndscape Architects. From 1979 to 1989 he taught at the Greenwich University. He died in 1996.
Nationality:
English.
Education:
As of 1919, Jellicoe studied at the Architectural Association in London.
Role within the BSR:
Bernard Webb Student, 1929-1930; Member of the Faculty of Architecture, 1939-1960.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1929 - 1930, 1929 - 1961
File
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1929 - 1930, 1929 - 1961
Reference number: AR-01.03.04/125.04
Scope and Contents
Documents from this file include: three pages from the publication 'Baroque Gardens of Austria', Ernest Benn Limited, London, 1932; report by Jellicoe on Austrian Baroque Gardens (1929) prepared in connection with the submission of the application for the Webb Studentship (15 pages and 1 photograph); application letter and recommendation letters, being the proposed course of study 'Garden Design'; award confirmation letter; excerpt of an essay by Jellicoe on the sculptor Getrtrude Hermes...
Dates:
Academic Year: 1929 - 1930; Record Keeping: 1929 - 1961
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1939 - 1979
File
Jellicoe, Geoffrey Alan, 1939 - 1979
Reference number: AR-02.07.02/359.05
Scope and Contents
Documents from this file include: invitation letter by Evelyn Shaw (BSR Honorary General Secretary) to join the Faculty of Architecture; letters of acceptance by Jellicoe (one of them handwritten with reference to his previous association with the BSR as scholar); correspondence with Shaw about meetings; correspondence with W. D. Sturch (BSR Honorary General Secretary) concerning meetings, opinions on a new approach to British Schools abroad and, specifically, on the terms for awarding the...
Dates:
Record Keeping: 1939 - 1979