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The Geographical Review October 1998, Vol. 88 (4), pp. 465-473 J. B. JACKSON AS A CRITIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE HELEN LEFKOWITZ HOROWITZ ABSTRACT: Understanding what the American landscape meant to J. B. Jackson requires an exploration of his background, education, and antagonism to the International Style. No full critique of modernism appears in Jackson' mature published work. However, knowledge that the first issues of Landscape magazine in 1951 were the work of a single author leads to discovery of Jackson's pseudonyms, especially H.G. West, P.G. Anson, G.A. Feather, and A.W. Conway. This article examines Jackson's pseudonymous writings and links them to his well-known essays on the landscape: "The Westward Moving House," "Other-Directed Houses," and "Southeast to Turkey." Keywords: architecture, J. B. Jackson, landscape, modernism DR. HOROWITZ is a professor of American Studies at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts 01063.