McHarg, Ian (1920– )

Scottish landscape architect. He worked in the USA as a teenage apprentice landscape architect (1936–39), then studied at Harvard University after World War II (1946–50). Back in Scotland, he was Edinburgh's first landscape architect (1950–54). He returned permanently to the USA to create the University of Pennsylvania's department of landscape architecture (1954–82). In Design with Nature (1969) he wrote that ecological considerations should determine architectural decisions. He founded the nationwide firm, Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd (1960–81), realizing projects throughout the USA and as far afield as in Africa. McHarg was born in Clydebank, Scotland.