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Adam_F_Collins

Architect "Style"
« on: March 25, 2006, 08:12:08 AM »
One of the things I'm thinking about in my own design work is the concept of "style". Styles are often desirable, as they create an identity for a designer's work and, in terms of business development, they define a particular product type.

Given that most golf course designs are generally a collaborative effort between the architect, the client, and a multitude of other professionals, it can be more or less difficult for an architect to hang on to stylistic preferences amid the wear and tear of the collaborative process.

On the other hand, an architect may have an interest in varying their work as much as possible - choosing to avoid any particular visual aesthetic, formula or anything which might lend itself to the identification of a particular 'style'.

• Which architects have/had the most identifiable 'styles'?

• Which have/had the least?

cary lichtenstein

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Re:Architect "Style"
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2006, 01:28:37 PM »
I ones I think I can pretty much recognize are:

McKenzie for his bunkering
Dye for his "hard edge"
Early Nicklaus for his "mounds"
Wilson for his flash bunkering and green shaping
Ross for the courses he worked on personally v the ones he didn't and the severity and shaping of the greens
Killian and Nugent for the modern expanses
Engh for his bunkering and greens
Joe Lee for the sameness of his bunkers
Arthur Hills for his kind of tricked up landing areas
Live Jupiter, Fl, was  4 handicap, played top 100 US, top 75 World. Great memories, no longer play, 4 back surgeries. I don't miss a lot of things about golf, life is simpler with out it. I miss my 60 degree wedge shots, don't miss nasty weather, icing, back spasms. Last course I played was Augusta

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