Historic American Landscape Survey
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/ BSLA
Historic American Landscape Survey
MARION PRESSLEY , FASLA HALS LIASION FOR BSLA
The HALS subcommittee has submitted an entry for the 6th annual HALS Challenge : Documenting Modernist Landscapes . Committee member Pamela Hartford submitted Six Moon Hill in Lexington , the first modernist subdivision in Massachusetts .
Designed by TAC in 1948 , Six Moon Hill demonstrates the progressive values of the Modern movement by its democratic landscape of houses sited carefully into the existing terrain over the enclosed private domain . This provides emphasis on the importance of the larger natural landscape setting , including shared common areas .
Six Moon Hill is significant as one of the earliest designed communities to explicitly employ a modernist ethos of simplicity , functionality , and site sensitivity in the planning , siting , and design of its landscape , serving as a model for over half a dozen subsequent modern neighborhoods in Lexington .
Boston Society of Landscape Architects Fieldbook
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Purple Fence | Jamica Plain , MA | by Beth Galston | submitted by RDLA
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