Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Report of Frederick Law Olmsted and John Nolen, Expert Landscape Architects, on Civic Center as Proposed by the Metropolitan Park Commission
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Landscape Architecture
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Werner Hegemann And The Search For Universal Urbanism
Author: Craseman Christine CollinsPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393731569
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Werner Hegemann (1881-1936), a German-born multidisciplinary critic of the built environment, was well known in Europe and the United States in his lifetime. A critic rather than a designer, he did not fit easily into any school or category. To those seeking to promote modernism, Hegemann was something of an awkward figure - influential and undoubtedly authoritative but unorthodox. Today, however, when studies of modernism have largely shed their proselytizing role, he is of great relevance. Our interest now is less in those who proposed the answers than in those who asked the questions - and particularly the way in which those questions were framed. For this Hegemann is a key figure." "Based on documentation largely unavailable in English - including Hegemann's published and unpublished writings, his correspondence, his diaries, the author's interviews, archival materials lent to her by Hegemann's widow, and the author's own substantial collection - this is the first comprehensive study of Hegemann for historians, architects, and urbanists."--BOOK JACKET.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903: Central Park
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
John Nolen
Author: Barbara Jo LongFrederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903: Central Park as a work of art and as a great municipal enterprise, 1853-1895
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Report of the Metropolitan Plan Commission
Author: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Plan CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Art, Municipal
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher:
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Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 9780801817984
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners, students, and citizens' groups continue to turn to Olmsted for ideas about the development and conservation of green spaces in urban areas. "The park throughout is a single work of art, and as such, subject to the primary law of every work of art, namely, that it shall be framed upon a single, noble motive, to which the design of all its parts, in some more or less subtle way, shall be confluent and helpful."—Frederick Law Olmsted For decades Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) designed parks and park systems across the United States, leaving an enduring legacy of designed public space that is enjoyed, studied, and protected today. Olmsted’s plans and professional correspondence are a rich source for understanding his remarkable contribution to the quality of urban life in this country and the development of the profession of landscape architecture. His writings also provide a unique record of society and politics in post-Civil War America. Historians, landscape architects, conservationists, city planners and citizens’ groups continue to turn to Olmsted for inspiration in their planning and protection of public open space in our cities. This latest volume of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted presents the record of his last years of residence in New York City. It includes reports on the design of Riverside and Morningside parks and Tompkins Square in Manhattan, as well as his comprehensive plan for the street system and rapid transit routes of the Bronx. It records his continuing work on Central Park and presents his final retrospective statement, “The Spoils of the Park.” In addition, the volume contains an annotated version of the journal in which Olmsted recorded instances of political maneuvering and patronage politics in the years prior to his dismissal from the New York parks department in 1878. Later chapters chronicle the early stages of his planning of the Boston park system—the Back Bay Fens, Arnold Arboretum, and Riverway. Other major commissions, each with its own political complications, were the grounds of the U. S. Capitol, the completion of the new state capitol in Albany, the designing of a park on Mount Royal in Montreal, and construction of the park system of Buffalo, N. Y. The volume also presents Olmsted’s commentary on issues of the times including Reconstruction policy and Civil Service reform. The Olmsted Papers project is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the National Trust for the Humanities, the National Association for Olmsted Parks, as well as private foundations and individuals.