The James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design is a non-profit educational corporation dedicated to preserving and building upon the legacy of one of the key initiators of the modern landscape architectural movement in the United States, James Rose. The Center is located in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in the house and gardens that James Rose lived and worked in until his death in 1991.

The James Rose Center is administered by a Board of Trustees, hand-picked by Rose before his death. The Director of the James Rose Center is Dean Cardasis, who operates u nder the control of the Board, with the additional aid of three consulting organizations; an Advisory Council, the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Garden Conservancy.

• A short biography of James Rose

• Rose Archives: Images and written descriptions of the work James Rose completed during his lifetime

• A bibliography listing works written by or about James Rose

• List of current activities at the James Rose Center

• Publications and research abstracts available from the James Rose Center about his work and that of other related modernist designers
  

• Grants, internships and awards available through the James Rose Center

• Archives of the LArch Electronic Forum
• The WWW Virtual Library: Landscape Architecture
• What's New: Landscape Architecture

Last Modified: August 30, 1995
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