The career of landscape architect Richard Webel closely parallels the growth of his profession in the twentieth century. The book chronicles his career from his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome to the design of estates on Long Island, corporate headquarters, and institutional settings. The intended audience is students, design professionals, and architectural historians.

The editors and the Webel family requested that the book be a hybrid: someplace between a coffeetable book and a scholarly publication. The work represented in the book ranges from Renaissance-influenced gardens to modern campus and institutional design. Our challenge was to use traditional book design elements (uncoated paper stock, the Bembo font family, traditional page proportions) to accompany this historical range of work, without having the book feel stale or incongruous.