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9780071344203

Pioneers of American Landscape Design : An Annotated Bibliography

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    9780071344203

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    0071344209

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-05-23
  • Publisher: MCG
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Summary

An important look at 140 prominent landscape architects and their work, full of new and archival photographs--the first reference book of its kind. An absolute must for landscape architects, students, and anyone interested in the design and evolution of the American landscape. Each entry includes biographical information, a discussion of the architects' approach and methodology, and representative plans and photographs of major projects. Emphasizes vital issues in landscape preservation and ecologically sound design. Excerpts from a review from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Patricia Lowry on 9/30/00: "Pioneers" will quickly become an indispensable resource for anyone working in the field. Attractively designed and packed with more than 450 plans and photographs (including 100 in color), it's also just fun to look at and read ... For each entry, "Pioneers" also includes a brief bibliography. The book also can serve as a travel guide; at the end is a list of sites open to the public. ... At least 14 of the pioneers have surviving gardens, landscapes or parks here -- a reminder that this region has nationally significant landscapes that should be cherished and protected. ... The book strives to capture not only achievements but also personality ...Birnbaum's hope is that the book will inspire academics, students and other researchers ...

Author Biography

ABOUT THE PIONEERS TEAM AND SPONSORS Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative and Robin Karson, executive director, Library of American Landscape History, served as project editors. Birnbaum, along with Catha Grace Rambusch, director, Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill, conceived of this expansive project over a decade ago. What began as a National Park Service (NPS) database (today managed by the NPS Historic Landscape Initiative and the Cultural Landscape Foundation) gave rise to Pioneers of American Landscape Design. The National Park Service Historic Landscape Initiative (Washington, DC) promotes responsible conservation and preservation practices that protect our nation's irreplaceable legacy of historic landscapes. The Library of American Landscape History (Amherst, MA) books and exhibitions about the artistic and cultural significance of North American landscapes and the people who created them. The Catalog of Landscape Records in the United States at Wave Hill (Bronx, NY) is a database which gathers information about the location and content of document collections (both written and graphic) that tell us about the use of our land. The Cultural Landscape Foundation (Washington, DC) is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public's awareness of the irreplaceable legacy of cultural landscapes and their importance.

Table of Contents

PREFACE
by Robin Karson.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A BIT OF HISTORY
by Catha Grace Rambusch.

INTRODUCTION
by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA.

THE PIONEERS.
Stanley William Abbott; Nellie B. Allen; Liberty Hyde Bailey; Benjamin Banneker; Nathan Franklin Barrett; Patrick Barry; Harland Bartholemew; John Bartram; Sylvester Baxter; Jacob Bigelow; Georges H. Bignault; John Blair; Myrl E. Bottomley; Ernest W. Bowditch; Loutrel Winslow Briggs; Elizabeth J. Bullard; George Elberton Burnap; Alfred Caldwell; Marjorie Sewell Cautley; Stephen Child; Thomas Dolliver Church; Gilmore David Clarke; Horace William Shaler Cleveland; Marian Cruger Coffin; Robert Morris Copeland; Ralph Dalton Cornell; Lucille Council; Howard Daniels; James Frederick Dawson; Ruth Bramley Dean; Henry A.S. Dearborn; S. R. DeBoer; Alling Stephen DeForest; Lockwood de Forest III; Andrew Jackson Downing; Earle Sumner Draper; Frances Duncan; Hans Jacob Ehlers; Louis Augustus Ehlers; Charles Eliot; George Ellwanger; Philip Homer Elwood; Helena Rutherfurd Ely; Beatrix Jones Farrand; Bryant Fleming; Harriett Risley Foote; Samuel Wesley Fordyce; Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr.; Paul Rubens Frost; Percival Gallagher; Alfred Geiffert Jr.; George Gibbs Jr.; Charles Freeman Gillette; Genevieve Gillette; Rose Ishbel Greely; James L. Greenleaf; Walter Burley Griffin; Ralph E. Griswold; George Duffield Hall; William Hammond Hall; Sidney J. Hare and S. Herbert Hare; Peter Henderson; Alden Hopkins; Roland Hoyt; Henry Vincent Hubbard; Daniel Ray Hull; Edward Huntsman-Trout; Martha Brookes Hutcheson; Umberto Innocenti; John Brinckerhoff Jackson; Thomas Jefferson; Jens Jensen; Maximilian G. Kern; George Edward Kessler; Louisa Yeomans King; Emerson Knight; Charles Downing Lay; Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr.; Elizabeth Lord; Guy Lowell; Benton MacKaye; Warren Henry Manning; William Bell Marquis; Cliff May; Annette E. McCrea; J. Horace McFarland; Wilhelm Tyler Miller; Anthony Urbanski Morell; Samuel Pike Negus; Norman Thomas Newton; Arthur Richardson Nichols; Rose Standish Nichols; John Nolen; John Notman; Olmsted Brothers; Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.; Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.; John Charles Olmsted; André Parmentier; Samuel Parsons Jr.; William C. Pauley; Elbert Peets; Charles A. Platt; Bremer Whidden Pond; James Sturgis Pray; Charles Pierpont Punchard Jr.; William Punchard; Michael Rapuano; Richard Requa; Charles Mulford Robinson; James C. Rose; Lester Rowntree; Charles Sprague Sargent; William Saunders; Edith Schryver; Reinhard Schuetze; Frank J. Scott; Thomas W. Sears; Kate Olivia Sessions; Louise Shelton; Ellen Biddle Shipman; Arthur Asahel Shurcliff; Philip Trammell Shutze; James C. Sidney; Ossian Cole Simonds; Wilbur H. Simonson; John Jay Smith; Fletcher Steele; Ezra Clarke Stiles; Adoph Strauch; Grace Tabor; Albert Davis Taylor; Christopher Tunnard; Francis Townsend Underhill; Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer; Calvert Vaux; Downing Vaux; Thomas Chalmers Vint; Ferruccio Vitale; Alexander Wadsworth; John Aston Warder; George Edwin Waring Jr.; George Washington; Hazel Wood Waterman; Frank Albert Waugh; Nelva Margaret Weber; Jacob Weidenmann; Adonijah Strong Welch; Robert Wheelwright; Stanley Hart White; Edward Clark Whiting; Louise Beebe Wilder; Morley Jeffers Williams; Harriett Barnhart Wimmer; Margaret Winters; Henry Wright; Mabel Osgood Wright; Richardson Wright; Alanson Phelps Wyman; Florence Yoch.

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