Beatrix Farrand - College Campuses

College Campuses

Farrand's campus designs were based on three concepts: plants that bloomed throughout the academic year, emphasizing architecture as well as hiding flaws, and using upright and climbing plants so that the small spaces between buildings would not seem reduced in scale. She was the first consulting landscape architect for Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (1912–1943). As new buildings are constructed at Princeton now, architects are often referred to Farrand's papers at U.C. Berkeley. She was the consulting landscape architect at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut for twenty-three years (1923–43), with projects including the Marsh Botanical Garden. She later went on to improve a dozen other campuses including the University of Chicago (1929–1943). along with Southern California's Occidental College and the California Institute of Technology Beatrix Farrand completed design work for the Pennsylvania School for Horticulture for Women (1931–32). Later she was also the landscape consultant to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1946–50).