This fascinating portrait of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted transcends biography and makes American history an intellectual adventure story. of photos.
This fascinating portrait of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted transcends biography and makes American history an intellectual adventure story. of photos.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Home and the award-winning A Clearing in the Distance, as well as The Biography of a Building, The Mysteries of the Mall , and Now I Sit Me Down. The recipient of the National Building Museum’s 2007 Vincent Scully Prize, he lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
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CONTENTS Foreword Schemes 1. "Tough as nails" 2. Frederick goes to school 3. Hartford 4. "I have no objection" 5. New York 6. A year before the mast 7. Friends 8. Farming 9. More Farming 10. A walking tour in the old country Jostling and Being Jostled 11. Mr. Downing's magazine 12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book 13. Charley Brace intervenes 14. Yeoman 15. A traveling companion 16. The Texas settlers 17. Yeoman makes a decision 18. "Much the best Mag. in the world" 19. Abroad Hitting Heads 20. A change in fortune 21. The Colonel meets his match 22. Mr. Vaux 23. A brilliant solution 24. A promotion 25. Frederick and Mary 26. Comptroller Green 27. King Cotton 28. A good big work 29. Yeoman's war 30. "Six months more pretty certainly" 31. A letter from Dana 32. Never happier 33. Olmsted shortens sail 34. A heavy sort of book 35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer 36. Loose ends A Magnificent Opening 37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park 38. Metropolitan 39. A stopover in Buffalo 40. Thirty-nine thousand trees 41. Best-laid plans 42. Henry Hobson Richardson 43. Olmsted's dilemma 44. Alone 45. "More interesting than nature" 46. Olmsted in demand 47. "I shall be free from it on the Ist of January" Standing First 48. An arduous convalescence 49. Fairstead 50. The character of his business 51. The sixth park 52. Olmsted meets the Governor 53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again 54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens" 55. Olmsted drives hard 56. The fourth muse 57. Dear Rick 58. Sunset Olmsted's Distant Effects Distant Effects A Selected List of Olmsted Projects Acknowledgments Notes Index Illustration and Photograph Credits
CONTENTS Foreword Schemes 1. "Tough as nails" 2. Frederick goes to school 3. Hartford 4. "I have no objection" 5. New York 6. A year before the mast 7. Friends 8. Farming 9. More Farming 10. A walking tour in the old country Jostling and Being Jostled 11. Mr. Downing's magazine 12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book 13. Charley Brace intervenes 14. Yeoman 15. A traveling companion 16. The Texas settlers 17. Yeoman makes a decision 18. "Much the best Mag. in the world" 19. Abroad Hitting Heads 20. A change in fortune 21. The Colonel meets his match 22. Mr. Vaux 23. A brilliant solution 24. A promotion 25. Frederick and Mary 26. Comptroller Green 27. King Cotton 28. A good big work 29. Yeoman's war 30. "Six months more pretty certainly" 31. A letter from Dana 32. Never happier 33. Olmsted shortens sail 34. A heavy sort of book 35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer 36. Loose ends A Magnificent Opening 37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park 38. Metropolitan 39. A stopover in Buffalo 40. Thirty-nine thousand trees 41. Best-laid plans 42. Henry Hobson Richardson 43. Olmsted's dilemma 44. Alone 45. "More interesting than nature" 46. Olmsted in demand 47. "I shall be free from it on the Ist of January" Standing First 48. An arduous convalescence 49. Fairstead 50. The character of his business 51. The sixth park 52. Olmsted meets the Governor 53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again 54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens" 55. Olmsted drives hard 56. The fourth muse 57. Dear Rick 58. Sunset Olmsted's Distant Effects Distant Effects A Selected List of Olmsted Projects Acknowledgments Notes Index Illustration and Photograph Credits
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