Date/place of birth:
18 June 1915
Olnay, Illinois
Date/place of death:
4 March 1953,
Bethesda, Maryland
Relationship to the
college:
Instructor of Landscape Architecture and
Botany
September 1942-September 1943
Profession:
Landscape Architect
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Lou Bernard Voigt received his B.S. in 1939
from the University of Illinois and then enrolled at the School of Design
at Harvard University where he receive his Master of Landscape
Architecture degree. He visited Black Mountain College for a month in June 1942. Before returning to Black
Mountain in August, he did work for a Christopher Tunnard, Dan
Kiley and the firm of Stonorov and Kahn on a defense housing project. He
returned to Black Mountain in August to make a study of the
landscaping and farming issues at Lake Eden. On August 30 he gave a talk
at the college on “Land Use Problems” and showed his pen and ink drawings
of plans for Lake Eden. In September he was appointed Instructor in
Landscape Architecture and Botany from September 1942-September 1943. At
Black Mountain he worked with Kocher and Josef Albers on a permanent
landscaping plan. He also taught courses in Botany, Plant Physiology,
Plant Ecology, and Landscape Architecture.
During the war, Voigt worked with the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
on site planning development for atomic plant installations at Oak Ridge,
Tennessee and did work for the Office of Strategic Services and the
Department of State in Washington, D.C. From 1948-50, while employed by
the Planning Division of the National Capital Parks, he did designs for
parks, squares and circles in the Washington area. After 1950, he was
engaged as a consultant by Charles M. Goodman Associates in Washington,
D.C. Before his death in 1953, he worked with Goodman on two postwar
Washington-area residential developments of modern houses, Hammond Wood
and Hollin Hills. He did the plantings at Hammond Wood and worked with Dan
Kiley and Eric Paepcke on the landscape design at Hollin Hills.
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