Paul Thiene Collection
Scope and Contents
The Paul Thiene collection consists primarily of visual materials documenting Thiene’s work as a landscape architect.
Photographs form the bulk of the collection and include images of completed projects and works in progress. Many of the photographs were created by the company of Hiller and Mott. The collection also includes scrapbooks of clippings about landscape architecture and photographs of Thiene’s drawings.
Dates
- 1915-1930
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the Curator.
Biographical / Historical
Paul Thiene (1880-1971)
Landscape architect Paul Thiene was born in Germany in 1880, and immigrated to the United States in 1903. After receiving his landscape technical degree and completing an apprenticeship in Germany, Theine came to the United States. He worked with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (Olmsted Brothers, Massachussetts) until 1910, then moved to San Diego to participate in the landscape design for the Panama-California Exposition with Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright. Thiene and Wright were business partners for one year and continued to collaborate with one another through 1918.
After working on the San Diego Exposition, Thiene’s office designed the landscapes of major estates in Southern California, including homes in Santa Barbara, Pasadena, and Beverly Hills. He was an innovator in the use of running water in gardens, and created a cascading, 80-foot waterfall on the Doheny “Greystone” estate in Beverly Hills.
Thiene was a fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects, and retired in 1951. He lived in Pasadena and died in 1971.
Source: James J. Lucas. “Paul G. Thiene: a biographical research paper,” 1962.
Extent
11 Linear Feet: (7 boxes, 1 flat box, 8 oversize folders)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Paul Thiene Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Environmental Design Archives staff
- Date
- 1998
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Arrangement and description of this collection was funded by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and by a grant from the Getty Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives Repository