Landscape Architect, Gardner A. Dailey, Architect, San Francisco, CA, c. 1935; Project Landscape Architect, Thomas D. Church, Landscape Architect, San Francisco, CA, c. 1940; she was known by her maiden name, Marie M. Harbeck, before her 1946 marriage. She worked with Dailey on the well-known small residence for the Mrs. L.D. Owens on hilly Atwood Avenue overlooking Sausalito, CA. She participated in camouflage training at Fort Belvoir, Fairfax County, VA, 1942-1944; Marie Harbeck met Arthur Schoene Berger at Fort Belvoir. Partner, Berger and Harbeck, Landscape Architects, Dallas, TX, 1945-1946; Partner, Berger and Berger, Landscape Architects, Dallas, TX, 1946-1960.

Marie Berger cultivated close ties with the students of landscape architecture from Oregon, and hosted students visiting the Bay Area before World War II. At this time, San Francisco's regional architects and landscape architects, including such figures as Thomas Church, Gardner Dailey (1895-1967), William W. Wurster (1895-1973), were attracting world attention for their innovative residential designs.

During her career, she collaborated with several well-known architects, including the Californians Wurster and Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990), as well as the Texas regionalist, O'Neill Ford (1905–1982).

B.Landscape Architecture, Oregon State Agricultural College, Corvallis, OR, 1932; Marie Harbeck was part of the last graduating class in landscape architecture at the Oregon State Agricultural College before the discipline was shifted to the University of Oregon in Eugene. OR.

She married the Kansas-born landscape architect Arthur S. Berger (1903-1960) on 07/05/1946. Arthur died in an automobile accident in Dallas, TX, on 08/13/1960.

Her work (as Marie Harbeck) was exhibited at the Architectural League of New York before the Second World War; the Owens House was probably one of the projects illustrated. Her work and that of her husband was shown at the International Landscape Architecture Exposition held in Zurich, Switzerland in 1958.

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