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Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces / Hugh Howard.
Fine Arts Library NA2543.S6 H685 2022
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection SB470.O5 H69 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howard, Hugh, 1952- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
- Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Public spaces.
- History.
- Architecture and society.
- United States.
- Architecture and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Public spaces--United States--History--19th century.
- Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886--Criticism and interpretation.
- Richardson, H. H.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Criticism and interpretation.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law.
- Architects.
- Landscape architects.
- Landscape architecture.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 406 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Other Title:
- Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, Biltmore's parkland in Asheville, dozens of parks across the country, and the preservation of Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Yet his close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson Richardson, has been almost entirely forgotten today, despite his outsized influence on American architecture-from Boston's iconic Trinity Church to Chicago's Marshall Field Wholesale Store to the Shingle Style and the wildly popular "open plan" he conceived for family homes. Individually they created much-beloved buildings and public spaces. Together they married natural landscapes with built structures in train stations and public libraries that helped drive the shift in American life from congested cities to developing suburbs across the country. The small, reserved Olmsted and the passionate, Falstaffian Richardson could not have been more different in character, but their sensibilities were closely aligned. In chronicling their intersecting lives and work in the context of the nation's post-war renewal, Hugh Howard reveals how these two men created original all-American idioms in architecture and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public and private spaces to this day"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Farewell, friend
- An impractical man finds his vocation
- Childhood days in Louisiana
- Inventing the Central Park
- Man without a country
- California days
- New neighbors in New York
- Mr. Dorsheimer, Buffalo benefactor
- The falls at Niagara
- Richardson designs a duomo
- Building Trinity Church
- Boston days
- Amestown
- The machine in the garden
- Of shingle and stone
- City of conversation
- Chicago style
- The Richardson memorial
- Sunset at Biltmore
- Legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780802159236
- 0802159230
- OCLC:
- 1257401800
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