Description
Geraldine Knight Scott was a landscape architect. Born 1904 in Wallace, Idaho, she studied landscape architecture at the UC Berkeley and graduated in 1926. She began her practice of landscape architecture in 1928 in Beverly Hills as a draftsman-designer for A.E. Hanson. Scott was a founding member of Telesis, a group of Bay Area designers, planners, and thinkers who emphasized the need for humanistic and comprehensive planning. In 1948, she started her own office in Berkeley which she continued until 1968. Scott also taught planting design in the Landscape Architecture Department at Cal. In this interview, she discusses her studies at UC Berkeley, jobs at Beverly Hills, the beginnings of Telesis, and fellow architects. This interview is part of a group of interviews with the founding members of Telesis.