Research Catalog

Title

Essays on landscape / Laurie Olin.

Author

Olin, Laurie

Publication

• Amherst, Massachusetts : Library of American Landscape History, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

x, 388 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

One of the most renowned landscape architects in practice today, Laurie Olin has created designs for the grounds of the Washington Monument, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and Bryant Park in New York City. His recent projects include the award-winning landscape for the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Apple Park in Cupertino, and Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland, Oregon. All these and many more iconic works were realized under the auspices of OLIN, the landscape architectural firm he co-founded in 1976. Olin is also a prolific writer, and in this volume a selection of his published work has been assembled for the first time. The collection comprises articles, lectures, and essays spanning a wide array of subjects-- from horticulture and education to urban history. Olin's musings on his own creative development, the evolving state of the profession of landscape architecture, and many other topics will interest a range of readers.

Subject

• Landscape architecture
• Landscape gardening
• Architecture du paysage
• Jardins > Architecture
• landscape gardening

Genre/Form

• Essay
• Essays.
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Form, meaning, and expression in landscape architecture -- Regionalism and the practice of Hanna/Olin, Ltd. -- William Kent, the Vigna Madama, and landscape parks -- The Museum of Modern Art garden : the rise and fall of a modernist landscape -- What I do when I can do it : representation in recent work -- More than wriggling your wrist (or your mouse) : thinking, seeing, and drawing -- The less said ... -- What did I mean then or now? Reflections on "Form, meaning, and expression in landscape architecture" -- Civic realism and landscape -- Global, regional, local -- Water, urban nature, and the art of landscape design -- Trees and the Getty -- The problem of nature and aesthetics in planting design.

ISBN

• 1952620309
• 9781952620300

LCCN

99990634989

OCLC

• on1227916833
• 1227916833

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries