Harriet Pattison: Landscape Architect With a Tie to Louis Kahn Dies at 94

Landscape architect Harriet Pattison lived in the United States from October 29, 1928, until October 3, 2023. Pattison was born on October 29, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the youngest of Bonnie Abbott’s and William Lawrence’s seven children. She studied in Chicago at the Francis Parker School. From the University of Chicago, she earned a B.A. in 1951.

At the offices of modernist landscape architect Dan Kiley in Vermont, Pattison served his first internship in the field of landscape architecture. She studied with Ian McHarg, Roberto Burle Marx, M. Paul Friedberg, and others while earning her MA in landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in 1967. For the 125-acre (51 ha) The Hershey Company headquarters, Pattison also created a master plan.

Harriet Pattison: Landscape Architect With a Tie to Louis Kahn Dies at 94

Harriet Pattison, a renowned landscape architect who worked with the architect Louis Kahn, with whom she had a son, on the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial on Roosevelt Island in New York City, among other projects, passed away on Monday at her home.