Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Arthur Edwin Jr. BYE
Arthur Edwin Bye, a landscape architect who strove in his public and private garden designs for a naturalism so artful that students said he knew how to make the snow fall where he wanted, died of heart failure at a hospital in Doylestown, Bucks County, Nov. 25. Mr. Bye, whose home was in Ridgefield, Conn., was 82.
A professor of landscape architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art since 1953, Mr. Bye helped establish landscape design as both an art and a subject of academic interest. His landscape works included gardens for the Harvey Hubbell Corp. in Orange, Conn.; the Jefferson Memorial Park in Washington; and the pocket park at 77 Water St. in New York.
An advocate of the natural over the formal, Mr. Bye was one of the first to promote the use of native plant materials and the restoration of native woodlands even as other well-known practitioners were installing vast, flat-plane lawns in their translations of corporate modernism into minimalist landscapes.
"Everything about Bye meandered," said Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles Eliot professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. "He advocated his own American version of 18th-century English romanticism, but on a smaller, more expressive scale."
Mr. Bye was born in Arnhem, the Netherlands, but moved at an early age to Pennsylvania, where his father was a professor of art history at Swarthmore. He received a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from the Pennsylvania State University in 1942.
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