Selected by Gardens Illustrated for "The Best Gardening Books to Read in 2022" Selected by American Horticultural Society for "Top 10 Books of 2021" In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. Growing up on a small farm in ......
Ethan Carr's forthcoming book, Boston's Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City, documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted's most mature expression of urban park design. In this comprehensive study, Carr affirms Franklin Park as one of great works of nineteenth-century American art. Left unfinished when Olmsted ......
One of the foremost landscape architects of the early twentieth century, Fletcher Steele (1885-1971) published frequently in both popular magazines and professional journals, on topics ranging from horticulture to conservation, civic improvement, modernism, and space composition. Engagingly written and infused with Steele's sharp wit, Design in ......
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 ......
The Missouri Botanical Garden and Tower Grove Park
Carol Grove chronicles Englishman Henry Shaw's remarkable story, from his early love of plants to his rising social conscience and his determined quest to create a place of unsurpassed beauty and distinction that would educate and thereby improve Americans. Beautifully illustrated with contemporary and historical photographs, this volume offers an ......
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Laurel Hill Association
The Laurel Hill Association, founded by Mary Hopkins Goodrich in 1853, transformed the Berkshires' village of Stockbridge into a model American town.Improving the Village traces the evolution of the influential volunteer group that inspired like-minded citizens to establish hundreds of village improvement associations throughout the nation. ......
Ossian Cole Simonds (1855-1931) was one of the country's earliest and most important landscape architects, the progenitor of the "middle-western movement" of landscape design. Landscape-Gardening (1920) presents Simonds's many remarkably prescient ideas: his use of native plants; his desire to protect the land for aesthetic as well as utilitarian ......
Marjorie Sewell Cautley presents the life and work of one of the pioneers of American landscape design of the early twentieth-century Over the course of four decades, Marjorie Cautley (1891-1954) became the first woman landscape architect to design state parks, plan the landscape for a public housing project, and teach in a university planning ......
After World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet funding remained at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. In 1956, "Mission 66," a ten-year billion-dollar federal initiative, was launched to reimagine the national park system. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape ......
