Sydney Baumgartner Landscape Architecture records, circa 1982-circa 2014

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Summary

Creators:
Baumgartner, Sydney and Sydney Baumgartner Landscape Architecture.
Extent:
80.0 Linear feet (51 record storage boxes, 296 tubes in 26 boxes, 1 index box)
Language:
Preferred citation:

Sydney Baumgartner Landscape Architecture Records, Architecture and Design Collection, Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Background

Scope and content:

The Baumgartner papers contain rolls of landscape drawings, boxes of client files, one large landscape plan mounted on foamcore, and a small box that holds job cards for every client/project.

Mosts of Baumgartner's clients were in the Central Coast region, the majority in Santa Barbara, Montecito, Goleta, and Carpinteria, though some commissions were in the Los Angeles area, in Palm Springs, and Northern California. The bulk of Baumgartener's designs were for residences. Projects date from circa 1982 through circa 2014. The collection is arranged in one series, by client name.

Biographical / historical:

Sydney Baumgartner practiced landscape design in the Santa Barbara region from the 1960s through the 1990s. Not formally trained as a landscape architect, she saw herself as a follower of Lockwood de Forest, Jr., an influential landscape architect in the Santa Barbara area. Though she never met Lockwood de Forest, Baumbartner apprenticed with Elizabeth de Forest in the 1960s. Elizabeth continued her husband's landscape practice after his death in 1949 and transmitted his ideas about natural landscapes and the use of native plants.

Custodial history:

Gift of Sydney Baumgartner.

Physical location:
Central Stores
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Unprocessed collection. Contact repository for information regarding access.

Preferred citation:

Sydney Baumgartner Landscape Architecture Records, Architecture and Design Collection, Art Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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