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Full of original plans and historic photographs, this beautifully
illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of
Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates.
Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best
Coffee Table Book Master landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822-1903) is renowned for his public parks, but few know the
extent of his accomplishment in meeting other needs of society.
Lavishly illustrated with over 500 images, this book presents
Olmsted's design commissions for a wide range of projects. The rich
collection of studies, lithographs, paintings, and historical
photographs depicts Olmsted's planning for residential communities,
regional and town plans, academic campuses, grounds of public
buildings, zoos, arboreta, and cemeteries. Focusing on living
spaces designed to promote physical and mental well-being, the book
showcases more than seventy of Olmsted's designs, including the
community of Riverside, IL; the Stanford University campus; the
U.S. Capitol grounds; the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893; the
National Zoo; and George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate.
Illuminating Olmsted's design theory, this volume displays the
beautiful plans and reveals the significance of each commission
within his entire body of work. Readers concerned with the quality
of the environment in which we live and work, as well as
architects, landscape architects, urban planners, historians, and
preservationists, will find stimulating insights in Plans and Views
of Communities and Private Estates.
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape
designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape
architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New
York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also
worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American
cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist
that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave
States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in
the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken
in 1853 4. This edition was published in two volumes in 1904, with
the addition of a biographical sketch by his son and an
introduction by William P. Trent. It abounds in fascinating and
witty descriptions of Olmsted's encounters and experiences in a
society which was on the verge of overwhelming change.
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 1903) was a journalist and landscape
designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape
architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New
York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also
worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American
cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist
that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave
States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in
the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken
in 1853 4. This edition was published in two volumes in 1904, with
the addition of a biographical sketch by his son and an
introduction by William P. Trent. It abounds in fascinating and
witty descriptions of Olmsted's encounters and experiences in a
society which was on the verge of overwhelming change.
Lavishly illustrated with over 470 images - 129 of them in color,
this book reveals Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for more
than seventy public park projects through a rich collection of
sketches, studies, lithographs, paintings, historical photographs,
and comprehensive descriptions. Bringing together Olmsted's most
significant parks, parkways, park systems, and scenic reservations,
this gorgeous volume takes readers on a uniquely conceived tour of
such notable landscapes as Central Park, Prospect Park, the Buffalo
Park and Parkway System, Washington Park and Jackson Park in
Chicago, Boston's "Emerald Necklace," and Mount Royal in Montreal,
Quebec. No such guide to Olmsted's parks has ever been published.
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. This gorgeous book will appeal to
landscape professionals, park administrators, historians,
architects, city planners, and students-and it is a perfect gift
for Olmsted aficionados throughout North America.
In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, then nearly sixty-eight years old,
had risen to the pinnacle of his career. Together with his
partners, stepson John Charles Olmsted and protege Henry Sargent
Codman, he was involved in a number of major ongoing projects,
including the Boston, Buffalo, and Rochester park systems, the
campus plan for Stanford University, and numerous private estates.
In July, he reported that the firm had "twenty works of
considerable importance" underway, including nine large parks and
six estates that he believed were "matters of public interest."
Before the summer ended, the firm's commitments would expand
dramatically as Olmsted and his partners were appointed landscape
architects for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As
commissions for new park systems, residential communities, grounds
for educational institutions, and private homes increased, Olmsted
feared that their commitments would exceed the partners' ability to
do their best work. Despite these fears, Olmsted's work in the
final six years of his professional career would only enhance his
considerable reputation, as the ninth and final volume of The
Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted reveals. With its impressive
waterways, monumental buildings, and verdant islands and shores,
the Chicago fair proved to be one of the firm's crowning
achievements. The early 1890s also saw the culmination of Olmsted's
wide-ranging work on one of his other great projects: the design of
the grounds of George W. Vanderbilt's massive estate, Biltmore,
near Asheville, North Carolina. In planning the estate's thousands
of acres, Olmsted outlined new approaches to landscape design,
promoted the creation of the first scientific forestry operation in
the United States, designed a model residential subdivision, and
proposed an arboretum that would have been the most ambitious in
the nation. The Last Great Projects, 1890-1895, chronicles the
history of one of the world's greatest landscape design firms while
offering a fascinating retrospective on Frederick Law Olmsted's
productive final years. The volume also gathers together the
important documents of this last triumphant era. As Olmsted neared
the end of his career, he wrote some of his most reflective letters
and reports, summarizing the legacy of his involvement with the
U.S. Sanitary Commission, the quality of landscape design in
England and France, the biographical circumstances that proved most
important to his development as an artist, and his hopes and fears
for the future of his profession.
Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to the Boston area in
the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John
Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first
of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice with park,
subdivision, campus, residential, and other landscape design
projects throughout the country. During the period covered in this
volume, Olmsted and his partners, apprentices, and staff designed
the exceptional park system of Boston and Brookline-including the
Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, and the Muddy River Improvement.
Olmsted also designed parks for New York City, Rochester, Buffalo,
and Detroit and created his most significant campus plans for
Stanford University and the Lawrenceville School. The grounds of
the U.S. Capitol were completed with the addition of the grand
marble terraces that he designed as the transition to his
surrounding landscape. Many of Olmsted's most important private
commissions belong to these years. He began his work at Biltmore,
the vast estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, and designed Rough
Point at Newport, Rhode Island, and several other estates for
members of the Vanderbilt family. Olmsted wrote more frequently on
the subject of landscape design during these years than in any
comparable period. He would never provide a definitive treatise or
textbook on landscape architecture, but the articles presented in
this volume contain some of his most mature and powerful statements
on the practice of landscape architecture.
Before he became America's foremost landscape architect, Frederick
Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was by turns a surveyor, merchant seaman,
farmer, magazine publisher, and traveling newspaper correspondent.
In 1856-57 he took a saddle trip through Texas to see the country
and report on its lands and peoples. His description of the Lone
Star State on the eve of the Civil War remains one of the best
accounts of the American West ever published. Unvarnished by
sentiment or myth making, based on firsthand observations, and
backed with statistical research, Olmsted's narrative captures the
manners, foods, entertainments, and conversations of the Texans, as
well as their housing, agriculture, business, exotic animals,
changeable weather, and the pervasive influence of slavery. Back
and forth from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, through San Augustine,
Nacogdoches, San Marcos, San Antonio, Neu-Braunfels,
Fredericksburg, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad, Castroville, La Grange,
Houston, Harrisburg, and Beaumont, Olmsted rode and questioned and
listened and reported. Texas was then already a multiethnic and
multiracial state, where Americans, Germans, Mexicans, Africans,
and Indians of numerous tribes mixed uneasily. Olmsted interviewed
planters, scouts, innkeepers, bartenders, housewives, drovers,
loafers, Indian chiefs, priests, runaway slaves, and emigrants and
refugees from every part of the known world--most of whom had "gone
to Texas" looking for a fresh start. He also observed the
breathtaking arrival of spring on the prairie and the starry nights
that seemed to prove the truth of the German saying "The sky seems
nearer in Texas."
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