Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts - Softcover

 
9780393733105: Frederick Law Olmsted: Essential Texts
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393733106 ISBN 13: 9780393733105
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Often called the father of landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted was responsible for the design of Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City; Mount Royal Park in Montreal; the Belle Isle Park in Detroit; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee; the Cherokee Park and entire parks system in Louisville, KY; and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, to name a few of his most famous projects. His landscape works are enjoyed in 25 states and 3 Canadian provinces. Most of these parks were created during and immediately after the Civil War. This title presents the opportunity to witness the evolution of Olmsted’s design and social philosophies during a time of upheaval in American history.

Sixteen selections, dating from the 1850s to the 1890s, reveal Frederick Law Olmsted’s youthful interests as well as his mature thinking on cities, small residential sites, the history and theory of urban parks, and landscape architecture in general. His writings directly addressed important issues of his day, but they remain as cogent as ever in today’s environmental crisis.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Twombly teaches at the Spitzer School of Architecture, The City College, New York City. He lives in West Nyack, New York.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393733106
ISBN 13 
9780393733105
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Herausgeber
Twombly Robert
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