Man Is Nature - Dan Kiley’s Love of Vermont

Grandma Baxter

Arnold Arboretum

Warren Manning

Tuckerman’s Ravine

Coal Hill Road, Franconia, NH

World War II

OSS

Nuremburg Court Room

Love of Vermont and its influences

• Agricultural Patterns on the Land• Geometric Farm Fields juxtaposed

against the natural topography• Browse Lines• Tree Lined Roads

• Mass Plantings based upon ecological conditions

• Soil, Moisture, Sun and Wind

Design Philosophy that evolved from these influences

Design is the same no matter what the scale – a city is the same as a garden

Genius with proportion and progression of space

Love of the land and how it impacted everything he did.

Dan’s Design Principles and Genius:

• Appropriate (APT) and Elegant

• Scale + Proportion

• Spatial Development and Progression Through the Space

• Bold Forms

• Love of Plants - Layering + Texture

Fractal Geometry – Understanding Nature’s geometric patterns and reflecting them in his designs.