Michael Brown Collection

AR BRO

c1960s-c2000s

Michael Brown (1923-1996) was a landscape architect and urban designer known for his limited use of materials which produced distinctive landscapes. Brown was a trained Architect and in 1955 went on to study Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Here he was taught by the Scottish Landscape Architect Ian McHarg who was to influence Brown’s analytical and design approach. Brown worked on landscape architecture projects with designer Dan Kiley in America and with landscape architect Eric Lyons on span housing in the UK before setting up his own practice Michael Brown (partnership) in the 1960s. The practice became one of the larger landscape offices in the UK with over 20 staff in the 1970s. Work included various housing projects and public spaces such as Euston Square Gardens, South Perimeter Road, Heathrow Airport, and the roof garden at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. In the late 1970s work began to slow down with the end of the public housing scheme. In 1981 Brown dissolved the partnership so that he could focus on his own interests which included ecology, sustainability, yoga and landscape design. Brown kept almost a complete archive of his work at his home in the Cotswolds from which the Landscape Institute made a selection to form this archive. Includes drawings, project files, photographic images, personal papers

30 boxes; 4 plan chest draws

Landscape design, Architecture

2019/41/1-4, 2019/42/1-27