Ridge, Great Smoky Mountains; and Fords Colony, Williamsburg, Virginia. Other LCA work included plans for early community colleges in North Carolina and Virginia and enclosed malls in Charlotte, San Antonio, Pittsburgh, and Louisville, as well as Cherry Hill Mall in New Jersey. Typical of Clarke’s North Carolina projects were master plans for the North Carolina Zoological Park, Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street Mall, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), Western Electric Corporation in Greensboro, Wayne Community Hospital in Goldsboro, Mount Olive College, St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, and NC State’s College of Design garden. Clarke and LCA received many awards and honors from the profession, including the American Society of Landscape Architecture’s (ASLA) Excellence and Merit Award, the American Institute of Architects Excellence and Merit Award, Progressive Architecture Annual Awards, and American Association of Nurserymen Awards. From the first enclosed malls to residential design and from institutional facilities to planned urban communities like Columbia, Maryland, Clarke and his associates designed across the spectrum of project types. Their clients or collaborators included real estate developers like James Rouse and the Rouse Company, golf course designer Robert Trent Jones, innovative NCSU engineer Robert Browning, and NC State botanist and forestry department head Art Cooper. Clarke served on the Raleigh Planning Commission and the ASLA National Accreditation Committees. In 1980, he became an ASLA Fellow. He is now a retired member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and a member emeritus of the North Carolina Chapter of ASLA (NCASLA). Users of the Lewis Clarke Collection will see a snapshot of the New South’s mid-twentieth century built development through thousands of drawings, document files, photographs, and project booklets. More than a dozen large-scale master plans are rendered in colorful zipa-tone film. Tubes and flat folders contain base maps, overlays, and final drawings for such projects as Rex Hospital in Raleigh, Tega Cay, UNC-Charlotte, UNCWilmington, and St. Andrews Presbyterian College. Personal and faculty papers include Clarke’s journal articles and lecture notes, as Right: A sketch for the N.C. Zoological Park from “Alive”, one of Lewis Clarke’s booklets used to promote client projects (left). 1974.
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Keowee Key, S.C., under construction. Lewis Clarke is on the right. 1975.
Cherry Hill Mall in Haddonfield, N.J., an early enclosed, climatecontrolled mall. Interior designed by Lewis Clarke. ca. 1961.