Experiencing Olmsted

Author : The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 851 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781643261911

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Experiencing Olmsted by The Cultural Landscape Foundation,Charles Birnbaum,Dena Tasse-Winter,Arleyn Levee Pdf

200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved green spaces, including national, state, and city parks, suburban neighborhoods, and academic campuses. He is most famous for creating New York’s Central and Prospect Parks, Stanford University’s campus, and the Capitol Grounds. What is less known and surprising about his legacy is that he worked widely across North America. By highlighting 200 iconic landscapes, many of which are still open to the public today, Experiencing Olmsted brings a fresh approach to the firms’ work and philosophy. It highlights not only grand city parks, but also other public venues born out of a desire for social equity. Olmsted was an early voice for parks as democratic spaces that could be reached on foot by a large percentage of any city’s populace. He viewed parks as restorative places—what he termed “the lungs of a city.” Brimming with contemporary and archival photography as well as original drawings and plans, this truly remarkable record brings these places to vivid life.

Author : Lucy Lawliss,Caroline Loughlin,Lauren Meier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Landscape architectural projects
ISBN : WISC:89105768915

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The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm, 1857-1979 by Lucy Lawliss,Caroline Loughlin,Lauren Meier Pdf

Author : Francis R. Kowsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0195346858

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Country, Park & City by Francis R. Kowsky Pdf

After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens. As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban dwellings that were remarkable for their well-conceived plans and their sensitive rapport with nature. By 1857, the year he published his book Villas and Cottages, Vaux had moved to New York City. There he asked Frederick Law Olmsted to join him in preparing a design for Central Park. He spent the next 38 years defending and refining their vision of Central Park as a work of art. After the Civil War, he and Olmsted led the nascent American park movement with their designs for parks and parkways in Brooklyn, Buffalo, and many other American cities. Apart from undertakings with Olmsted, Vaux cultivated a distinguished architectural practice. Among his clients were the artist Frederic Church, whose dream house, Olana, he helped create; and the reform politician Samuel Tilden, whose residence on New York's Gramercy Park remains one of the country's outstanding Victorian buildings. A pioneering advocate for apartment houses in American cities, Vaux designed buildings that mirrored the advance of urbanization in America, including early model housing for the poor. He planned the original portions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History and conceived a stunning proposal for a vast iron and glass building to house the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Especially notable are the many bridges and other charming structures that he designed for Central Park. Vaux considered the Park's Terrace, decorated by J. W. Mould, as his greatest achievement. An active participant in the cultural and intellectual life of New York, Vaux was an idealist who regarded himself as an artist and a professional. And while much has been written on Olmsted, comparatively little has been published about Vaux. The first in-depth account of Vaux's career, Country, Park, and City should be of great interest to historians of art, architecture, and urbanism, as well as preservationists and other readers interested in New York City's past and America's first parks.

Author : Lindsay K. Campbell,Anne Wiesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Open spaces
ISBN : MINN:31951D029382317

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Restorative Commons by Lindsay K. Campbell,Anne Wiesen Pdf

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782114314

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John Muir by Frederick Turner Pdf

Immigrant, inventor, botanist, writer and pioneering conservationist, Muir is one of the great Scots of the nineteenth century. From his humble origins in Dunbar, John Muir has risen to the status of an American icon as the father of American conservation. While others dreamed of becoming the archetypal New World Man, escaping into the wilderness beyond the confines and comfits of civilisation, very few actually lived the dream as Muir did, fully and deeply. Frederick Turner's monumental work is the definitive biography on Muir.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : IND:30000062946797

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CRM by Anonim Pdf

Author : Archimedes L. A. Patti
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : United States
ISBN : 0520041569

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Why Viet Nam? by Archimedes L. A. Patti Pdf

Author : Edward K. Muller,Joel A. Tarr
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986997

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Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern by Edward K. Muller,Joel A. Tarr Pdf

Pittsburgh’s explosive industrial and population growth between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression required constant attention to city-building. Private, profit-oriented firms, often with government involvement, provided necessary transportation, energy resources, and suitable industrial and residential sites. Meeting these requirements in the region’s challenging hilly topographical and riverine environment resulted in the dramatic reshaping of the natural landscape. At the same time, the Pittsburgh region’s free market, private enterprise emphasis created socio-economic imbalances and badly polluted the air, water, and land. Industrial stagnation, temporarily interrupted by wars, and then followed deindustrialization inspired the formation of powerful public-private partnerships to address the region’s mounting infrastructural, economic, and social problems. The sixteen essays in Making Industrial Pittsburgh Modern examine important aspects of the modernizing efforts to make Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania a successful metropolitan region. The city-building experiences continue to influence the region’s economic transformation, spatial structure, and life experience.

Author : Tony Hiss
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307766281

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The Experience of Place by Tony Hiss Pdf

Why do some places--the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper--affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings.

Author : Melvin Kalfus
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780814748466

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Frederick Law Olmstead by Melvin Kalfus Pdf

Frederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work. What was the source of this creative energy and imagination in his fascinating years? Melvin Kalfus is the first author to examine Olmsted's troubled, sometimes tragic childhood and adolescence in a search for the inner sources of his creative imagination. Kalfus argues that Olmsted's distressing early experiences fired his ambition and led him so obsessively to seek the world's esteem through his works. Kalfus also looks at Olmsted's varied early career during which he worked as an apprentice merchant, a seaman, a farmer, a manager of a mining plantation in California, a journalist, and author of three istorically important books on slavery, and as the General Secretary of the Civil War's Sanitary Commission, and enormous project organized to provide medical aid to Union soldiers.

Author : Justin Martin
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306819841

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Genius of Place by Justin Martin Pdf

The full and definitive biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, influential abolitionist, ardent social reformer and conservationist, and the visionary designer of Central Park Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's campus, Olmsted was also an influential journalist, early voice for the environment, and abolitionist credited with helping dissuade England from joining the South in the Civil War. This momentous career was shadowed by a tragic personal life, also fully portrayed here.Most of all, he was a social reformer. He didn't simply create places that were beautiful in the abstract. An awesome and timeless intent stands behind Olmsted's designs, allowing his work to survive to the present day. With our urgent need to revitalize cities and a widespread yearning for green space, his work is more relevant now than it was during his lifetime. Justin Martin restores Olmsted to his rightful place in the pantheon of great Americans.

Author : Tony Horwitz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101980293

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Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz Pdf

The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains, Bad Land, and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Appropriations for Prevention of Fraud in Public Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Fraud
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4XGU

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Report of Select Committee on Appropriations for Employees Engaged in the Detection and Prevention of Fraud in and Depredations Upon the Public Service, Appointed Under House Resolution No. 480 by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Appropriations for Prevention of Fraud in Public Service Pdf

Author : David Weintraub
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458761583

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East Bay Trails by David Weintraub Pdf

The only guide dedicated entirely to hiking San Francisco's East Bay has been revised and updated, and features 3 new trips in Contra Costa County. Includes 56 trips for hiking, bicycling, and horseback riding on oak-studded hills, grassy ridges, ...

Author : Ramona Pando Whitaker,Clinton E. Brown
Publisher : City of Light Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781942483397

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Olmsted's Elmwood by Ramona Pando Whitaker,Clinton E. Brown Pdf

The fascinating story of the historic Elmwood District is told for the first time, from the arrival on the Niagara Frontier of Joseph Ellicott, through the role played by Fredrick Law Olmsted' s parks and parkways, and into the decline and renewal during modern era. This lushly illustrated book educates and enlightens, telling the stories of the people who gave Elmwood its enduring character, transforming it from dense forest into one of America' s top ten neighborhoods.