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On This Page. Frederick Law Olmsted came to the profession of landscape architecture late in his career. For thirty years after 1837 he served as an administrator-first of New York's Central Park, then of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, and finally of the Mariposa Mining Company in California. Although he was co-designer of Central Park in 1858 ...
October 23, 1991. Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Created by Act of Congress in 1890, the park comprises 1,754 acres (2.74 mi 2, 7.10 km 2 ), generally along Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River . More than two million people visit the park each year, many to use recreation ...
Frederick Law Olmsted (26. huhtikuuta 1822 – 28. elokuuta 1903) oli yhdysvaltalainen maisema-arkkitehti, joka suunnitteli New Yorkin Central Parkin ja monia muita merkittäviä puistoja. Hän kiinnostui maiseman muodoista ollessaan pitkällä lomalla Euroopassa, ja julkaisi havainnoistaan kirjan Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in ...
The Arnold Arboretum is a key link in the Emerald Necklace, a 7-mile-long network of parks and parkways that civic visionary Frederick Law Olmsted laid out for the Boston Parks Department between 1878 and 1896. The parks that make up the Emerald Necklace – Boston Common, The Public Garden, Commonwealth Avenue Mall, The Back Bay Fens, Riverway ...
Olmsted retired in 1895, but his sons, John Charles and Frederick Jr., carried on, and the Olmsted Firm was a functioning landscape practice for over 100 years with commissions for about 6,000 landscapes across North America. (Frederick Jr. was christened Henry Perkins and renamed by his father when he was about eight.
フレデリック・ロー・オルムステッド（Frederick Law Olmsted、1822年 4月26日-1903年 8月28日）は、アメリカ合衆国の造園家。都市計画家。「ランドスケープ・アーキテクト」を最初に公式に名乗った人物。
9780684824635. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski . It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.
