He was particularly influenced by Kiley’s approach to design. In the spring of 1963 he joined the office of landscape architect Dan Kiley in Charlotte, Vermont.ĭan Kiley and the natural beauty of Vermont had a profound effect on Karr’s sense of aesthetics and his professional development. in 1962, then returned to Philadelphia where he resumed working for the National Park Service’s Eastern Office of Design and Construction. He spent six months with the Army Engineers Reserve after finishing his M.L.A. While at Penn, Karr worked for the National Park Service in Philadelphia and the Fels Institute for State and Local Government. in Landscape Architecture in 1960, and soon thereafter headed to the University of Pennsylvania as a graduate student to study with landscape architects Ian McHarg and Karl Linn. He studied under landscape architects Stanley White, Charles Harris and Phil Lewis, and worked as an assistant landscape architect for the State of Illinois Department of Highways during the summers of 19 to help fund his studies. He entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1956 to study city planning, but soon changed his focus to landscape architecture. Joseph Paul Karr was born in Rochelle, Illinois, on March 5, 1938. Wrigley Global Innovation Center, Chicago, IL - Photo courtesy of Peter Schaudt After 35 years of practice he closed his office in 2004 and continued working as a landscape architectural consultant through 2011, retiring in 2012. He served on boards, including the American Society of Landscape Architects Accreditation Board, and was named a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1992. Karr’s work has been published in numerous books and publications. Karr’s office designed more than 700 landscapes for universities, colleges, corporations, hospitals, senior living communities, institutions, parks, cemeteries, industrial sites, residential complexes and single-family homes. He left the Kiley office in the spring of 1969 to start his own practice, Joe Karr and Associates, as a division of the Chicago architectural firm of Harry Weese & Associates. He recognized that architects and landscape architects were both designers and manipulators of space and that the difference between them was primarily in the materials that each used to form and modify space. Karr, like Kiley, felt that architecture and landscape architecture were interconnected. ![]() Karr, a native of Rochelle, Illinois, entered the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1956 to study city planning, but soon changed his focus to landscape architecture.
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