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Robert Royston was born on 1918 in United States, is an American architect (1918–2008). Discover Robert Royston's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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1918

Royston was born in 1918 in San Francisco, California.

He grew up on a farm in the Santa Clara Valley of Northern California in the town on Morgan Hill.

As a high school student he demonstrated a talent for drawing, dramatic performance, and athletics.

One teacher advised him to be either an attorney or a ballet dancer.

1936

He pursued instead his interest in design and the outdoors and upon graduation in 1936 enrolled in the program for "Landscape Design" in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.

Royston's mentor, H. Leland Vaughan, allowed him to experiment on his own with the new design perspectives emerging in the innovative work of Thomas Church and the more avant-garde explorations of Daniel Kiley, Garrett Eckbo, and James Rose.

Royston's interest in painting, which he continued to pursue in order to explore aesthetic principles applicable to his design work, can be traced to the studio art classes that were a part of his early education.

1940

While working his way through college, Royston was employed part-time in the office of Thomas Church and upon graduation in 1940 became a full-time employee.

At the time Church was expanding his practice, which had been centered primarily on residential gardens, to include the design of larger-scale planned residential communities and college campuses.

Young Royston was given major responsibilities on such San Francisco projects as the Valencia Gardens Housing Project in the Mission District (by architect William Wurster), the Potrero Hill Housing project, and the large Park Merced Apartment complex near the Pacific Ocean.

He also was an early member of 'Telesis', an informal group of designers concerned with environmental problems of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Here he met several of the architects he was later to collaborate with on various projects as well as his future professional partner, Garrett Eckbo.

With the outbreak of World War II, Royston volunteered for the Navy and served as a junior officer in the Pacific theatre.

In his spare time aboard ship, Royston experimented with design ideas, building models of residential gardens and creating jewelry out of scrap materials.

1945

In 1945 Royston returned to the Bay Area and accepted Garrett Eckbo's invitation to form a partnership with him and landscape architect Edward Williams.

The new firm, Eckbo, Royston, and Williams, eventually established offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

1947

In 1947 Royston accepted a teaching position at the University of California Berkeley while continuing his professional practice.

His students included both architects and landscape architects.

1951

His teaching career at Berkeley ended in 1951 when he resigned after refusing to sign a loyalty oath.

Soon after leaving Berkeley, he accepted a part-time position at Stanford University and later at North Carolina State University.

Over the course of his career he taught and lectured at over twenty-five colleges and universities in the United States.

Royston's early professional work was concentrated in Northern California and at first consisted mostly of residential site planning and garden design.

This was a period of astronomical growth fueled by the post-War economic boom and an acute shortage of housing.

Most of this growth occurred as low- density suburban development, where Royston did much of his work.

His practice soon expanded to include parks, plazas, and planned residential communities.

Royston collaborated on numerous residential projects with many notable San Francisco Bay Area architects.

His site plans emphasized the integration of indoor and outdoor space and elegant, functional garden rooms for outdoor living.

Royston's specific design vocabulary of layered, non-axial spaces and bold asymmetrical arcs and polygons suggests such influences as analytical cubism, biomorphism, and the rectilinear geometry of Mondrian's paintings.

The approach to architectural space of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier are also clearly visible.

Royston regards space as the primary medium of design and insists on the absolute necessity of integrating design form with human use.

For example, in a typical Royston park design, a wading pool for young children may be laid out as a visually engaging biomorphic form but at the same time is scaled to the distance a parent's voice can reach.

The depth of the pool would also reflect function over pure form in that it would be shallowest in the middle where the child is farthest from parental aid.

In Royston's design vocabulary there is no art for art's sake.

Design form is always directly related to use and the psychological effect of space on its participants.

"For Royston, landscape architecture 'Practices the fine art of relating the structure of culture to the nature of landscape, to the end that people can use it, enjoy it, and preserve it.'"

2008

Robert N. Royston (1918 – September 19, 2008) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects, based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the United States.

His design work and university teaching in the years following World War II helped define and establish the California modernism style in the post-war period.

During his sixty years of professional practice Royston completed an array of award-winning projects that ranged from residential gardens to regional land use plans.

He is perhaps best known for his important innovations in park design.

A recent book, Modern Public Gardens: Robert Royston and the Suburban Park, details this area of his professional creativity and philosophy.