John Brookes (landscape designer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Brookes (landscape designer)

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1933

Place of Birth: Durham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Mar-2018

Profession: landscape architect

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Andrew Brookes, MBE (11 October 1933 – 16 March 2018) was a garden and landscape designer.
He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens.
He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design. Beginning as a Modernist and working with Dame Sylvia Crowe, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe and other notable architects and landscape architects, Brookes came of age in the dawn of garden and landscape design for the middle classes in Britain and in the heyday of 1960s London. Brookes was influenced by painters such as Piet Mondrian and Ben Nicholson, and brought abstract and modernist principles to garden design.
He espoused the concept that a garden's design should be based first and foremost on the needs of its occupants, taking it out of the realm of the grand garden traditions which were labour-intensive, expensive, and high maintenance.
He is the author of over two dozen books, including Room Outside and John Brookes, Master Class, that have been translated into several languages and has taught and lectured in venues around the globe, including Iran, Argentina, Japan, Russia, and the US. In 2004, Brookes was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his for contributions to Garden Design and Services to Horticulture. He died on 16 March 2018 at the age of 84.