Interview with Herb Schaal by Carrie Gregory, 10 May, 2007 (Courtesy of EDAW, Inc./AECOM)
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- Title:
- Interview with Herb Schaal by Carrie Gregory, 10 May, 2007 (Courtesy of EDAW, Inc./AECOM)
- Description:
- Transcript edited by Herb Schaal. This interview was conducted at the home of Herb Schaal in Colorado on May 10, 2007. In the interview, Schaal discusses: helping his father, a landscape architect originally from Germany, on projects during Schaal’s childhood; his time at California State Polytechnic University studying under Richard Moore, later president of EDAW in the late 1960s and 1970s; teaching at NC State University and State University of New York at Syracuse; joining EDAW and working on noteworthy projects like the transmission line siting study for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company; founding the Fort Collins, Colorado, office of EDAW and working on projects for the National Parks Service; his pride in receiving the ASLA President’s Award for the Summer Student Program; his approach to design and his devotion to landscape architecture’s basic agenda of art, society, and ecology; and integrating his work and his personal life and how it positively affected his office culture. [Preferred citation: Interview with Herb Schaal by Carrie Gregory, courtesy of EDAW, Inc./AECOM, 10 May 2007, MC 00615, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC.]
- Topics:
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Landscape Architecture
- Subjects:
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Landscape architects
Landscape architecture
- Original Format:
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Digital video recording, sound, color
- Extent:
- 1:43:13
- Item identifier:
- mc00615-001-ranch-interview
- Interviewer:
- Gregory, Carrie more info on Gregory, Carrie
- Interviewee:
- Schaal, Herb more info on Schaal, Herb
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Interviews
Oral histories (Document genres)
- Names:
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Schaal, Herb
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EDAW Inc. more info on EDAW Inc.
AECOM (Firm) more info on AECOM (Firm)
- Digital Project:
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Manuscript Collections
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Herb Schaal Oral History and Lecture, 2007 (MC00615) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
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