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Architects of an American landscape : Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the reimagining of America's public and private spaces /

As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, Hugh, 1952- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Architecture and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Public spaces > United States > History > 19th century.
Richardson, H. H. > (Henry Hobson), > 1838-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, > 1822-1903 > Criticism and interpretation.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Farewell, friend
  • An impractical man finds his vocation
  • Childhood days in Louisiana
  • Inventing the Central Park
  • Man without a country
  • California days
  • New neighbors in New York
  • Mr. Dorsheimer, Buffalo benefactor
  • The falls at Niagara
  • Richardson designs a duomo
  • Building Trinity Church
  • Boston days
  • Amestown
  • The machine in the garden
  • Of shingle and stone
  • City of conversation
  • Chicago style
  • The Richardson memorial
  • Sunset at Biltmore
  • Legacies.