California style garden

Thomas church is a pioneer of modern American gardens. Since the late 1930s, he has created a modern garden style called "California Garden" on the west coast of the United States. Church and other modern California landscape architects are called California School, and their design ideas and techniques have had a far-reaching impact on landscape architecture design in the United States and even the world today.

In the 1940s, a different private garden style gradually emerged on the west coast of the United States, which was not only loved by the middle class eager to own their own gardens, but also aroused strong repercussions in the American landscape architecture community and became the representative of modern gardens at that time. This small garden with open-air wooden platform, swimming pool, irregular planting area and dynamic plane has created a brand-new outdoor lifestyle for people and is called "California Garden". The pioneer of this style is thomas church (1902 ~ 1978), one of the founders of modern American gardens in the 20th century.

California style is one of North American styles. North American style is a mixed product, that is, many mature architectural styles are accepted at the same time, which are mutually integrated and influenced. The Southern California style actually evolved from the traditional Spanish architectural style. In the early days, its thick shapes, tiny windows and holes, yellow-gray plastering, solid walls, primitive wood squares and other special materials made the building look rough and natural, and the overall environment revealed a religious mystery. Later, around the end of19th century, due to the rise of the Art Nouveau movement, it also began to pay attention to decoration, but more emphasis was placed on the use of wrought iron, showing a simple, rough fashion and exotic style.

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