Clarke, Lewis

Lewis James Clarke was born in Carlton, Nottingham, England on 10 March 1927. He earned his Master's in Architecture at the University of Leicester, Master's in Landscape Design from Kings College at the University of Durham, and a Fulbright Scholarship and a Smith-Mundt Award to attend Harvard University's Graduate School of Design to earn a Master's in Landscape Architecture in 1952. Clarke taught as an associate professor at the North Carolina State College School of Design (SOD), from 1952 to 1968. He operated his landscape architecture firm, Lewis Clarke Associates, from 1968 to 1993, where he worked on projects such as community colleges in North Carolina and Virginia, residential resort master planning, and prototype enclosed mall projects. He created the original master plans for the Research Triangle Institute; Saint Andrews College, Laurinburg, North Carolina; and the North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro. His signature works include Palmetto Dunes, Hilton Head Island; Carolina Trace, Sanford, North Carolina; and Ford's Colony, Williamsburg, Virginia.

From the description of Lewis Clarke collection, 1944-2006 [manuscript]. (North Carolina State University). WorldCat record id: 756648983

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