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A dual portrait of America's first great architect, Henry Hobson
Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law
Olmsted--and their immense impact on AmericaAs the nation recovered
from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced
how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world
around them through their pioneering work in architecture and
landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as
America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the
force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park,
Biltmore's parkland in Asheville, dozens of parks across the
country, and the preservation of Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Yet
his close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson
Richardson, has been almost entirely forgotten today, despite his
outsized influence on American architecture--from Boston's iconic
Trinity Church to Chicago's Marshall Field Wholesale Store to the
Shingle Style and the wildly popular "open plan" he conceived for
family homes. Individually they created much-beloved buildings and
public spaces. Together they married natural landscapes with built
structures in train stations and public libraries that helped drive
the shift in American life from congested cities to developing
suburbs across the country. The small, reserved Olmsted and the
passionate, Falstaffian Richardson could not have been more
different in character, but their sensibilities were closely
aligned. In chronicling their intersecting lives and work in the
context of the nation's post-war renewal, Hugh Howard reveals how
these two men created original all-American idioms in architecture
and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public and private
spaces to this day.
Along with his numerous political achievements, Thomas Jefferson
was also the first great architect of the United States. The
Jeffersonian Classical style has been so influential that along
with Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson, Jefferson is one of the
three most recognized architects in American History.
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