Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1421410869
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) planned many parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed and defended today. His public parks, the design of which he was most proud, have had a lasting effect on urban America.
Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 1102
ISBN-13: 1421416034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The final chronologically arranged volume in the series, it will present the last stage of Olmsted's career, with a firm that included his former students Henry Sargent Codman and Charles Eliot as new partners. During this time Olmsted concentrated his energies on his two last great commissions: one was the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 on the site of the Chicago South Park that he and Vaux had designed in 1871, with subsequent redesigning of Jackson Park and the Midway; the other was the extensive Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. There will also be correspondence concerning the development of the park systems of Louisville, Kentucky, and proposals for park systems in Milwaukee and Kansas City. The volume will present some of the remarkable retrospective letters he wrote to Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer and his son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. It will conclude with several undated and unfinished writings on the history and principles of landscape design.
Author: Justin Martin
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0306818817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This definitive, first full-scale biography of Olmsted--famed designer of New York's Central Park--reveals him also as a brilliant political and social reformer.