"We still build temples and palaces and many other splendid structures, but they are lost in the modern urban jungle." "Over the years I've done a lot of flying across the country," he said in an interview to Martin Filler of the New York Times, "and from an airplane it looks as if nobody knew what they were doing or where they were building. There's a near total absence of physical community in America today, no sequence of qualitative connections and experiences. What we landscape architects are about is to try to bring some intelligence to that pattern." Mr. Eckbo's great success in doing just that is evident in the more than 1,000 highly varied schemes he produced for clients ranging from migrant farm workers in California's Central Valley to Gary Cooper in Beverly Hills. But despite his important role in creating a distinctive new style of American landscape design during the expansive postwar years—when his lively, innovative gardens were the horticultural equivalents of the architecture and furniture of Charles and Ray Eames—Mr. Eckbo is still not as widely known outside certain practical and academic architectural and landscape circles, although his students and colleagues bear testament to his teachings and humanity. Other books by Eckbo include Landscape for Living and Urban Landscape Design. Linda Jewell, professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where Eckbo taught said Eckbo's books always contained numerous illustrations of his observations and theoretical positions. Some of the illustrations reflected actual projects, others were proposals that Eckbo thought should be real, she said. "He was always an advocate for the underclass," she said. "Everything he did had a social agenda behind it." Eckbo died on May 14, 2000 after a stroke. He was survived by his wife, Arline, of Oakland; daughters Marilyn Kweskin and Alison Peper of Los Angeles; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Selected projects 1935: Landscape design for architect Edwin Lewis Snyder, Berkeley, CA 1938-44: Housing for migrant workers in California, Arizona and Texas 1946: Park Planned Homes (architect: Gregory Ain), Altadena, CA 1947-48: Community Homes (architect: Gregory Ain), Reseda, CA (unbuilt) 1947: Ladera Cooperative (architects: John Funk and Joseph Allen Stein), Palo Alto, CA 1948: Avenel Homes (architect: Gregory Ain), Los Angeles, CA 1948: Mar Vista Housing (architect: Gregory Ain), Los Angeles, CA 1952: Alcoa Forecast Garden (Eckbo residence), Los Angeles, CA 1962: Long-range development plan for the University of New