Main entry:

Beveridge, Charles E.

Title & Author:

Frederick Law Olmsted : designing the American landscape / Charles Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau ; edited and designed by David Larkin.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1995.

Description:

276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"A David Larkin book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-275).
The years of preparation -- The art of landscape design -- Parks and park systems : Central Park, New York ; Prospect Park, Brooklyn ; The Chicago South Park ; Mount Royal, Montreal ; Belle Isle, Detroit ; The Front, Parade and Delaware Park, Buffalo ; The Back Bay Fens, Riverway, Arnold Arboretum and Franklin Park, Boston ; Genese Valley, Seneca and Highland Parks, Rochester, New York ; Shawnee, Iroquois and Cherokee Parks, Louisville, Kentucky -- Residential communities : Riverside, Illinois ; Sudbrook, Maryland ; Druid Hills, Atlanta -- Academic campuses and residential institutions : Lawrenceville School, New Jersey ; Stanford University, California ; Hartford Retreat ; Buffalo State Asylum ; McLean Asylum -- Designing for domesticity : Fairsted, Brookline, Massachusetts ; Moraine Farm, Beverly, Massachusetts -- The collaboration with H.H. Richardson : Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and Civil War Memorial Cairn, North Easton, Massachusetts ; Langwater Estate, North Easton, Massachusetts ; Ephraim Gurney Estate, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts ; Robert Treat Paine Estate, Waltham, Massachusetts ; Boylston Street Bridge, Boston ; Boston & Albany railroad stations -- The United States Capitol grounds -- Scenic preservation : Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove ; Niagara Reservation -- Landscape architecture for the semiarid American West : Public Pleasure Grounds for San Francisco ; Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland ; The College of California, Berkeley ; Stanford University, Palo Alto ; Lake Wauconda, Parry Park, Colorado -- Biltmore Estate -- The ongoing legacy : Public parks systems: Seattle, Washington ;Scenic reservations : Point Lobos, California.

Summary:

"A man of passionate vision and drive, Frederick Law Olmsted defined and named the profession of landscape architecture and designed America's most beloved parks and landscapes of the past century - New York's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Biltmore Estate, and many others. During a remarkable forty-year career that began in the mid-1800s, Olmsted created the first park systems, urban greenways, and suburban residential communities in this country. He was a pivotal figure in the movement to create and preserve natural parks such as Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Niagara Falls; and he contributed to the design of many academic campuses, including Stanford University in Palo Alto, California." "Today there is a resurgence of interest in Olmsted's work and legacy in both the United States and Europe. This timely volume, following the format of Rizzoli's successful Masterworks series, presents the breadth of Olmsted's work in expansive, beautiful color photographs by Paul Rocheleau, who conceived this book. The engaging text illuminates Olmsted's role as an indefatigable administrator and social reformer, a man who slept a scant few hours each night and rallied around causes ranging from anti-slavery to sanitary regulation. Olmsted's career reflected a deep concern for fostering community and using the restorative effects of natural scenery to counteract the debilitating forces of the modern city."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
cover art

ISBN:

084781842X
9780847818426

Subject:

Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 Criticism and interpretation.
Landscape architects United States Biography.
Landscape architecture United States.
Architectes paysagistes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis.
Landscape architects.
Landscape architecture.
Landscape architects United States 19th century.
United States.
Landscape architects Biography United States
Olmsted, Frederick Law

Form/genre:

Biography
Nonfiction.
Catalogues raisonnés.
Quotations (texts)
Biographies.

Added entries:

Rocheleau, Paul.
Larkin, David, 1936-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155252
Call No.: NA44.O51.2 B4 1995
Status: Available