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Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Communities and Private Estates

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This book is the first comprehensive presentation of Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates, featuring over 500 images and studies. It showcases his planning for residential communities, academic campuses, public buildings, zoos, arboreta, and cemeteries, focusing on living spaces designed to promote physical and mental well-being.

Format: Hardback
Length: 608 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2020
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press


This beautifully illustrated collection is the first comprehensive presentation of Frederick Law Olmsted's design concepts for communities and private estates. Master landscape architect 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.

Weight: 3178g
Dimension: 294 x 288 x 44 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781421438672

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