中心定位与历史渊源
詹姆斯·罗斯景观建筑研究与设计中心（James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design）是一家位于美国新泽西州 Ridgewood 的非营利景观研究与保护基金会，将二十世纪中期现代景观建筑师詹姆斯·罗斯（James C. Rose）于 1953 年为自己建造的自宅改造为研究、教学与公众参观的常设场馆。基金会由罗斯本人在 1991 年去世前启动设立，其初衷是把住宅、花园与藏书文献整体保留下来，作为持续推动景观建筑研究与现代设计遗产保护的实物基地。
罗斯的现代景观建筑遗产
詹姆斯·罗斯与加勒特·埃克博（Garrett Eckbo）、丹·凯利（Dan Kiley）并称为二十世纪美国景观建筑现代主义运动的三位代表人物。他早年就读于康奈尔大学建筑专业，后以特殊生身份转入哈佛大学景观建筑专业，1937 年因拒绝以布扎艺术风格做设计而被开除；这段经历直接促成他 1938 至 1939 年间在《Pencil Points》杂志上发表的一系列现代景观宣言式文章，也奠定了他后来从理论到实践的独立路径。
场馆本体：罗斯自宅与花园
中心所在的罗斯自宅于 1943 年完成构思，1953 年开始动工建造，建成后被《Progressive Architecture》杂志在 1954 年 12 月号与一座建在纽约现代艺术博物馆庭园里的传统日式住宅并置刊出，作为室内外空间融合的代表案例。住宅最显著的特点是罗斯本人提出的室内外空间无缝衔接的设计主张，加上他对场地灵活性的强调，使整座建筑成为他日后长期坚持的”以建造代替绘图”的设计/建造一体化（design/build）执业方式的现场样本。
公共教育与实习计划
中心常年向公众开放并承担教学职能，提供面向学生与研究者的实习岗位以及面向志愿者的讲解员（docent）培训项目。中心同时维护罗斯遗留的文献、出版物与项目档案，定期组织讲座、专题讨论会与专业历史研究，并联合高校景观建筑院系开展以这处自宅为现场样本的设计课程与学术访问，使这处私宅在去世三十多年后继续保持现代景观建筑教学现场的活力。
参观导览与场地开放
参观以有讲解员带领的预约制团队为主，每年 5 至 8 月每周二至周日、9 至 10 月每周三至周日开放，团队规模受住宅空间限制一般每团不超过十人。基金会通过会员、捐赠与志愿讲解员体系维持场馆运营，并欢迎公众以志愿讲解、实习或捐助的方式参与这处二十世纪中期现代景观建筑遗产的长期维护。
Founding and Institutional Mandate
The James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design is a nonprofit landscape research and preservation foundation headquartered in Ridgewood, New Jersey. It is housed in the 1953 residence of mid-century modern landscape architect James C. Rose, who before his death in 1991 established a foundation to convert his home and its landscape into a permanent site for research, teaching, and public engagement with the ideas of modern American landscape architecture.
Rose’s Modernist Landscape Legacy
Alongside Garrett Eckbo and Dan Kiley, James C. Rose is widely regarded as one of the three leading figures of the modern movement in twentieth-century American landscape architecture. After enrolling in architecture courses at Cornell University, Rose transferred as a special student to Harvard to study landscape architecture, only to be expelled in 1937 for refusing to design in the Beaux-Arts manner — an experience that directly shaped the series of articles on modernism in landscape design he published in Pencil Points in 1938 and 1939.
The Ridgewood Residence as Built Archive
The Ridgewood residence, conceived in 1943 and built beginning in 1953, was featured in the December 1954 issue of Progressive Architecture alongside a traditional Japanese house erected in the garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The house embodies Rose’s lifelong commitment to the fusion of indoor and outdoor space and to flexible environmental design, and from 1953 until his death it also served as the home of his professional practice, which he ran as a design/build operation so that he could improvise directly with the sites of his gardens.
Internships, Docents, and Public Programs
Today the Center operates as a working research and teaching site, offering seasonal internships to students and training for volunteer docents who lead tours of the house and grounds. It maintains Rose’s archive of drawings, writings, and project files, hosts lectures, symposia, and scholarly visits from landscape architecture schools, and welcomes scholars and practitioners who use the residence as a first-hand case study of mid-century modern residential landscape design.
Visiting the Center by Guided Tour
Public access is by guided tour only, with advance registration required. Tours run on the hour between May and August from Tuesday through Sunday, and between September and October from Wednesday through Sunday, and each tour is limited in size to fit the intimate scale of the house. The Center is sustained by a small staff, seasonal interns, volunteer docents, and the support of members and donors committed to keeping this mid-century modern landscape heritage alive.
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