Volume 21, Number 10 · June 13, 1974
The Genius of the Place
By William H. Jordy
FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
by Laura Wood Roper
Johns Hopkins University Press, 555 pp., $15.00
Frederick Law Olmsted's New York
by Elizabeth Barlow, illustrative portfolio by William Alex
Praeger, 174 pp., $12.50
"Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape"
by Robert Smithson
Artforum, $3.00
Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park
edited by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., edited by Theodora Kimball
MIT Press, 575 pp., $4.95 (paper)
More than anyone else, Frederick Law Olmsted dominated the profession of landscape design in nineteenth-century America. He had a hand in the preservation of scenic wonders like Yosemite and Niagara Falls, in major landscape parks and park systems in more than a dozen major cities, in the first scientifically managed forest in this country, in the landscaping of the Columbian Exposition, model suburban subdivisions, campus planning, estate planning, even the first municipally sponsored playground. Moreover, he was over forty-four when he did most of this work, after he had pursued, and with notable success, several other careers. A remarkable man!
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