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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 New York's Bryant Park. Olin is also a prolific writer, and his essays wide span a wide array of subjects--from horticulture and education to urban history, the evolving state of the profession of landscape architecture, and many other topics of interest to a range of readers.
List of contents
Preface by Robin Karsonv
Introduction�/p>Form, Meaning, and Expression in Landscape Architecture 000
Regionalism and the Practice of Hanna/Olin, Ltd.�0
William Kent, the Vigna Madama, and Landscape Parks�0
The Museum of Modern Art Garden: The Rise and Fall of a Modernist Landscape�0
What I Do When I Can Do It: Representation in Recent Work�0
More Than Wriggling Your Wrist (or Your Mouse): Thinking, Seeing, and Drawing�0
The Less Said . . .�0
What Did I Mean Then or Now? Reflections on "Form, Meaning and Expression in Landscape Architecture"�0
Civic Realism and Landscape�0
Global, Regional, Local�0
Water, Urban Nature, and the Art of Landscape Design�0
Trees and the Getty�0
The Problem of Nature and Aesthetics in Planting Design�0
Notes�0
Index�0
About the author
LAURIE OLIN, FASLA, HON. AIA, is founding partner of OLIN and Practice Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books and essays on a range of topics related to the American landscape and the recipient of the Bradford Williams Medal from the ASLA in honor of his literary achievements.
