JB Jackson's Home, New Mexico

John Brinkerhoff Jackson was an iconoclastic academic known as the "father of cultural landscape studies". He taught at Harvard and Berkeley, sometimes driving his motorcycle between them. He wrote numerous essays, published in several books, mostly about the merits of the "ordinary" and "everyday" landscapes of America. He established and edited (and wrote much of) Landscape Magazine, from 1951 to 1968. He retired here, an area he had known since his youth, in a house he designed and had a physical hand in building, in La Cienega, south of Santa Fe, where he worked in gardens, at construction sites, and at gas stations until his death in 1996. The house is privately owned and occupied.