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Contributing Institution:
University of California, Berkeley. College of Environmental Design. Environmental Design Archives
Title: Paul Thiene Collection
Creator:
Thiene, Paul, 1880-1971
Identifier/Call Number: 1962.-1
Physical Description:
11 Linear Feet:
7 boxes, 1 flat box, 8 oversize folders
Date (inclusive): 1915-1930
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in the collection should be discussed with the
Curator.
[Identification of Item], Paul Thiene Collection, (1962-1), Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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.