Mid Century Modern Garden Design. Chula Vista, San Diego, California

Aug 4

Written By Yura Lotonenko

CONCEPTUAL IDEA

LASD Studio works across garden design, landscape architecture, urban design, and regional landscape design based in San Diego and works internationally.

This Garden is interpretation of Mid-Century Modernism. Here you will find simple curved and straight lines, interesting color combination scheme with decorative elements such as retaining walls painted in Sapphire blue. The main philosophical essence of this garden is very structured order for functionality and unsophisticated symplicity and unpretentious arragement.

Main elements of the design - Large enclosed lawn by planting as a front yard, large Deck for up to 20 people, firepit place, vegetable garden and BBQ space, all these spaces have it's own functionality and but bounded in coherent design with Sapphire blue color, round window in the hedge, shrubs, perennials, groundcovers etc.

DEFINITION OF THE DESIGN

The movement spanned from about 1933 to 1965 and included architecture as well as industrial, interior, and graphic design. Sleek, cool, clean, sophisticated, functional, colorful, mod, and curvy-those are apt words to describe mid-century modern design. This term encompasses the trends that influenced architecture and interior design in prosperous, post-war America. Elements of mid-century modern Exterior design include clean lines, muted tones, a combination of natural and manmade materials, graphic shapes, vibrant colors, and integrating indoor and outdoor motifs. Well-known landscape architects like Garrett Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and James Rose rebelled against the neo-classical design, conventions and theories of the time (20'-30s). They were influenced by modernist architectural ideals of simplicity, function, scale, and unity.

EXISTING CONDITION