With increased attention to sustainability and environmental concerns, landscape architects now lead teams of urban planners and architects in developing new outdoor space and reconfiguring existing designs. As the preeminent landscape architecture firm in the United States, Olin is at the forefront of this movement with completed projects across ...
The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a celebrated architecture critic and writer and an award-winning landscape ...
The gardens and estate of La Foce constitute one of the most important and best kept early twentieth-century gardens in Italy. Amid 3,500 acres of farmland in the countryside near Pienza, with sweeping views of the Tuscan landscape, La Foce was the childhood dream garden of the late writer Marchesa Iris Origo. Passionate about the order and ...
In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, 'Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region,' to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and ...
"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an ...
In 1930, the Olmsted Brothers and Harland Bartholomew & Associates submitted a report, 'Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region,' to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. After a day or two of coverage in the newspapers, the report dropped from sight. The plan set out a system of parks and parkways, children's playgrounds, and ...
Selected projects by Laurie Olin, who is considered by many to be the heir to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted, and whose work has transformed public spaces in Manhattan, Los Angeles, London, among other locations. This book focuses on his public projects (like Bryant Park in New York City), private and commercial commissions, and experimental ...
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